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Tag Archives: images
New image resource ARTSTOR at London Met
ARTSTOR contains millions of images from some of the world’s top photo archives, museums, libraries and artists, (including rare materials not available anywhere else), which you can use in your assignments, as all content is rights-cleared for education and research. … Continue reading
Copyright free images
Are you looking for images you can use without having to worry about copyright? Most images you can find on the internet will have some kind of copyright, even if there is nothing to indicate it. It’s important to check … Continue reading
Posted in Archives, Copyright, Digital online archive, External archives and libraries, Uncategorized, Using Images
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The Met Museum adds thousands of copyright free images online
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has released thousands of its works of art online to the public domain, in a new ‘Open Access’ initiative, in collaboration with Creative Commons (a non-profit organisation that aims to promote the … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Digital online archive, Uncategorized
Tagged "art history", "graphic design", art, copyright, design, images, printmaking
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Year of The Dog
February the 16th saw the new Chinese New Year begin, and 2018 is the year of the dog – a great excuse for a display about dogs in Aldgate Library! From paintings by George Stubbs to David Hockney, photography by … Continue reading
Posted in Databases, event, events, Journals, Library e-resources, Uncategorized
Tagged "Art Library", art, books, CASS, events, film, images, painting, photography
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Free online collection of Nature and Botanical Illustrations
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries across the globe that cooperate to digitise their respective heritage collections of biodiversity literature, and to make it open access. There are thousands of images of the natural … Continue reading
Posted in Digital online archive, External archives and libraries, Uncategorized
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Magic, Witchcraft and Folklore
A slightly belated Halloween related post, but there are 2 exhibitions currently showing magic and witchcraft related objects, and we have searched our shelves for some of our spookier items for display… The British Library has ‘Harry Potter: A History … Continue reading
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Graphic Design
The Wellcome Collection’s current exhibition ‘Can Graphic Design Save Your Life?’ explores the relationship between graphic design and health. The Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library exploring health, life and our place in the world on Euston Road in … Continue reading
World Honey Bee Day
August the 19th is World Honey Bee Day, and London Metropolitan University will be celebrating on Friday 18th August with trips for staff and students to see our own honey bee hives on the top of the Rocket building at the … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Bees, book display, CASS, images
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Paolozzi and Pop
We are lucky enough to be based just around the corner from the fantastic Whitechapel Gallery, who are currently hosting a fabulous exhibition by Eduardo Paolozzi the ‘godfather of pop’. Earlier this year his famous mosaics at Tottenham Court Road … Continue reading
Posted in Databases, Exhibitions, Library books, Uncategorized
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Talwin Morris on VADS database
VADS (Visual Arts Data Service) is the online resource for visual arts, and they have just launched one of the world’s largest collections of Art Nouveau designs for book covers by Talwin Morris. The collection is held by Glasgow School of Art … Continue reading
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