Review: First launched in 2020, the Smithsonian Open Access portal provides an inroad to copyright-free digital materials from the far-ranging collections of the Smithsonian Institution. As a freely available web repository accessible to anyone with a browser connection, Smithsonian Open Access opens the intellectual doors of its many divisions,…[Read more]

Review: Art Journal Open (https://artjournal.collegeart.org/) is an open-access digital journal for the visual arts published by the College Art Association. The journal produces scholarly essays, interviews, reviews, and projects focusing on topics related to post-1945 and contemporary art that are global in scope. It features contributions from…[Read more]

Review: Launched in 2015, #dariahTeach is an European based Open Education Resources (OER) platform for the digital arts and humanities. The target audience for this platform is higher education teachers, who can embed existing content or create new content for courses and learners, especially those who do not have access to formal courses or…[Read more]

Review: Digital Art History Journal (DAHJ) is a fascinating and unique resource. Futuristic in structure and classic in content it is a wonderful blend of what the internet could be in its most interactive format while maintaining a quality of content that one would expect from an academic journal. In fact, the initiative began in 2015 as the…[Read more]

Review: The Flora Scales Catalogue (https://florascales.com/) demonstrates the clear benefits of presenting a comprehensive catalogue of an artist’s work online. Whereas traditional printed catalogs may only reach a limited audience, Flora Scales is intentionally openly accessible, and overflowing with high-quality images. Some of the drawbacks o…[Read more]

Review: The online exhibition Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’s Work In Community – presented by the Morgan Library & Museum in conjunction with the in-person exhibition that took place from January 28 through June 5, 2022 and organized by Belle da Costa Green Curatorial Fellow Nicholas Caldwell – examines the social and political impact of Gwend…[Read more]

While much has been written about implementing the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education in various classroom settings, this article addresses mapping the ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education to the Framework in designing instruction for art and architecture students. Disciplinary lenses, allowing…[Read more]

Little is published about the information-seeking habits of contemporary Egyptian artists, a community of creative intellectuals at the forefront of the current political and cultural revolution in the Middle East. Using Susie Cobbledick’s and William S. Hemmig’s frameworks for understanding the information-seeking patterns of artists, this art…[Read more]

The research behaviors and library use of dance scholars are widely unknown, particularly in regard to issues of access to historical materials and new technology preferences. In the past thirty years, college and university dance departments in the United States have developed into independent, research-based programs. Despite the lack of current…[Read more]

In a politically charged social climate, many disciplines are inwardly grappling with historic ideologies and systems of oppression. In information science, critical librarianship seeks to disrupt normative approaches to library work by confronting these ideologies and systems, empowering both library workers and users to understand how these…[Read more]

Review: The U.S. Civil War In Art (https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/civil-war-in-art/) is a curated collection of essays and videos focused on understanding artworks created during and about the U.S. Civil War period. Compiled and hosted by the non-profit organization Smarthistory, this collection continues the Smarthistory mission to…[Read more]