Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Home Page National Art Inventories What are the Inventories? The Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture document more than 400,000 artworks in public and private collections worldwide. The Inventory of American Paintings includes works by artists who were active in America by 1914. The Inventory of American Sculpture has no cut-off date and includes works from the colonial era through contemporary times. These online databases are supplemented by a photographic collection of over 80,000 images. The photographs are available for study purposes in our Washington, D.C., office. Report, Change or Add Art to Inventories We have compiled the Inventories from exhibition and collection catalogs; reports received from individuals, collectors, and family members; and data gathered from special surveys-including the Save Outdoor Sculpture! Daily we add and update records in the Inventories, so we welcome your additions and corrections. Contact Us Please send us your comments and suggestions.
Rare Book School Receives Mellon Foundation Grant to Expand Fellowship Program Rare Book School at the University of Virginia has received a second grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand the reach of an ambitious fellowship program that is reinvigorating bibliographical studies within the humanities. The $783,000 grant, announced earlier this month, will fund 20 additional three-year fellowships in the Andrew W. Aiming to encourage humanities scholars to look at books as physical artifacts worthy of study beyond the text on their pages, the program was launched last academic year with an $896,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation. During their three-year fellowship tenure, fellows receive intensive classroom training in weeklong seminars held annually at Rare Book School, located within U.Va.’s Alderman Library and at other major special collections libraries nationwide. Hannah Marcus, a doctoral candidate in history at Stanford University, is a member of the Rare Book School Mellon Fellows program’s inaugural cohort.
Welcome to ARTstor Far Left Robert Henri La Reina Mora, 1906 Colby College Museum of Art Top Center Winslow Homer Girl Reading, 1879 Colby College Museum of Art Bottom Center Winslow Homer Girl in a Hammock, 1873 Colby College Museum of Art Far Right Edward Hopper House with a Big Pine, 1935 Colby College Museum of Art Featuring: Colby College Museum of Art Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver Killing Time, 5/25/1991 This image was provided by the Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. X-Cheerleaders Wanted X-Cheerleaders, 11/25/1994 This image was provided by the Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. Guy de Cointet Two Drawings, 5/9/1978 This image was provided by the Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. Lorraine O'Grady Fly By Night, 2/10/1983 This image was provided by the Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. Featuring: Ephemeral Art from Franklin Furnace Yoruba peoples Ibeji with beaded gown Fowler Museum (University of California, Los Angeles) Ewe peoples Venovi Figures Fowler Museum (University of California, Los Angeles) Jacob A. Jacob A.
New Deal Network Usenet and discussion list archives Discussion lists These are also referred to as mailing lists or list-servs, but whatever they're called, they mean the same thing. A mailing list is a glorified email 'cc' - sending copies of exactly the same email or, when referring to mailing lists or Usenet post to a large number of people. Rather than having to know the email addresses of all of the people you want to send a post to, the hosting service does this for you. The image above shows in a graphical format how a mailing list works. Advantages and disadvantages of discussion lists Advantages A quick and easy way to talk to a lot of people who share your interest Speedy responses - often within a couple of hours A good way of keeping in touch with current events A good sounding board for other peoples ideas and opinions. Disadvantages A frighteningly easy way to waste time Personal disputes can escalate into 'flame wars' Possible confusion arising from a personal opinion/company viewpoint What information can you get?
Skills for Online Searching - ipl2 A+ Research & Writing Learn how search syntax works Search syntax is a set of rules describing how users can query the database being searched. Sophisticated syntax makes for a better search, one where the items retrieved are mostly relevant to the searcher's need and important items are not missed. It allows a user to look for combinations of terms, exclude other terms, look for various forms of a word, include synonyms, search for phrases rather than single words. Boolean logic Boolean logic allows the use of AND, OR and NOT to search for items containing both terms, either term, or a term only if not accompanied by another term. Wildcards and truncation This involves substituting symbols for certain letters of a word so that the search engine will retrieve items with any letter in that spot in the word. Phrase searching Many concepts are represented by a phrase rather than a single word. Proximity Capitalization Field searching All database records are divided up into fields. Index and abstract of a document
The University of Oklahoma College of Law: A Chronology of US Historical Documents Links marked with an asterisk (*) are to other websites and will open in a new window. Pre-Colonial To 1600 The Magna Carta (1215) Letter from Christopher Columbus to the King & Queen of Spain (1490's) The *Iroquois Constitution 17th Century 18th Century The Albany Plan of 1754 The Resolutions of the Stamp Act (Oct. 19, 1765) 19th Century First Inaugural Address of President Thomas Jefferson (1801) Second Inaugural Address of President Thomas Jefferson (1805) The *Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress *Thomas Jefferson Online Resources at the University of Virginia Information on *Monticello First Inaugural Address of President James Madison (1809) Second Inaugural Address of President James Madison (1813) The text of the Star Spangled Banner (Sept. 20, 1814) First Inaugural Address of President James Monroe (1817) Second Inaugural Address of President James Monroe (1821) The Monroe Doctrine (Dec. 2, 1823) Inaugural Address of President *Rutherford B.
Emily Dickinson Archive Unintentional Knowledge - The Chronicle Review By Julio Alves I started teaching writing in graduate school 20-plus years ago, and it did not take me long to start looking forward to the pile of research papers at the end of the semester. Unlike much of the writing earlier in the semester, done from assigned readings and carefully crafted prompts, the research papers tackled broad, open-ended questions. But that was in the old days, before the ease and precision produced by the Internet. When I started teaching, books were easier to find than articles, whose references were buried deep in voluminous, thin-paged indexes. As periodical-search engines blossomed, students, ever adaptable, started using more articles. Then the development of Google and of electronic journals essentially converged. Consequently, my students hardly ever consult books. Why am I bothered by these developments? But more important, I am bothered because I think there is pedagogical value in getting lost in the stacks. But should research be quick and easy?
Primary Sources: Overview of Collections One of the nation’s top collections of rare law books is housed in the Paskus-Danziger Rare Book Room of the Lillian Goldman Library at the Yale Law School. The collection is particularly strong in Anglo-American common law materials, including case reports, digests, statutes, trials, treatises, and popular works on the law. Other strengths include Roman and canon law, international law (especially the works of Hugo Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf), and early law books from most European countries. Of special interest ... Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.Location: Sterling Law Building, 127 Wall St., Level L2, Room 003 Phone: 203 432-4494 Web site: (back to top)
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