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Shared Shelf is Launched!

Doreen Bernier — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:19:34 +0000

Megan Battey, Visual Resources Curator, reports that as of February 2011 Middlebury’s Visual Resources Collection is now accessible through ARTstor’s SharedShelf system. Shared Shelf is an on-line, cloud-based image management system for cataloging, accessing and using our local image collection seamlessly through the ARTstor interface. This offers many advantages – user-friendly cataloging tools, one-stop-shopping for our image users and reduced need for local infrastructure as our collection is now securely housed in “the cloud.” This represents the culmination of two years of work collaborating closely with ARTstor, LIS and eight other institutional partners (Colby, Cornell, Harvard, NYU, Society of Architectural Historians, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Miami and Yale University).

Middlebury’s is one of the first collections to go live in Shared Shelf, which will be released worldwide in July 2011. There are currently 3,143 images in the Middlebury collection, and the collection is growing as we continually add images to support the curriculum.

For more information about Shared Shelf, go to: http://www.artstor.org/shared-shelf/s-html/shared-shelf-home.shtml. To access our collection:

Go to http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml
Click “Go”
Click on “Middlebury Visual Resources” at the bottom. It is not necessary to log in.

Users can search all ARTstor collections together, or just our local collection. Faculty and students are already enthusiastically using the system and Megan looks forward to demonstrating Shared Shelf’s features at upcoming LIS meetings.

Artscope: A nifty way to look at images

Michael Roy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:32:48 +0000

Megan Battey shared with us a nifty tool from SF MOMA for looking at a large collection of images at the same time. It’s called Artscope and can be found at

http://www.sfmoma.org/projects/artscope/#r=64

Middlebury joins ArtStor’s Shared Shelf Project

Michael Roy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:49:49 +0000

Submitted by Mike Roy

We’ve made a three-year commitment (that we can back out of on an annual basis if we feel like it!) to work with ArtStor and a small group of other colleges and universities on a shared image management system that ArtStor is calling Shared Shelf. The press release is at http://www.artstor.org/news/n-html/an-090714-shelf.shtml . Terry Simpkins and Mike Roy are the main representatives to the project, and we’ll be consulting closely with others as the project moves forward.