Digital Collections

Nearly 200 new images were added to the Samek Art Gallery's collection today. Many of the new images are of lacquered inros from Japan and China.

All of the images are available here.

View eighteen poster sessions related to the connection between visual literacy and information literacy. The poster sessions are available online and will also be presented in person at the annual American Library Association (ALA) conference in June.

Posters include:

• Analyzing the Dynamics of Race with Information & Visual Literacy


• Collaborating with Colleagues: Promoting Visual Literacy Across the Curriculum


• Embedding Information Literacy into a Visual Literacy Course


• Image Searching at Corbis: Using Language to Access the Visual


• INFO220: Understanding Images: Researching Visual Messages


• Is A Picture Really Worth a Thousand Words?


• Is Seeing Believing? Visual Literacy and Web Evaluation


• Killing Two Birds with One Stone: An Information Literacy Lesson in Art History and Censorship for Non-majors


• No One Taught Them the Rules


• Promoting the Development of Information Literacy Skills: A Problem-Based Learning Perspective Utilizing a WebQuest


• Reading Online Scholarly Content Through Students' Eyes


• Teacher Preparation for Visual Literacy


• Using University Websites to Teach Visual Literacy


• Visual and Information Literacy in the Study of Costume: Parallel Pedagogies


• Visual Information Literacy: Addressing Non-textual Information Needs Across Disciplines


• Visual Literacy to Visual Learning: Helping our Faculty and Students Transition to Learning in a Visual Environment


• Visual Literacy: The Truth is Out There


• Where Form becomes Function: The Application and Incorporation of Visual Literacy Principles to Instructional Design

Over 150 new images were added to the Samek Art Gallery's collection today. This update features many reproductions of Winslow Homer's wood engravings on newsprint.

Access the complete Samek Art Gallery Collection.

Directly access the Winslow Homer engravings.

During the Fall 2006 semester, students in Prof. David Del Testa's HIST 100 course worked with posters from World War II that are currently housed in Special Collections. In addition to writing a research/analysis paper about the posters, students created a digital library to make the posters more widely accessible. Further details about the project are available from the Special Collections/University Archives web site or the Digital Projects & Collections page. For access directly to the collection in Insight, click here. Access is open to the general public.

Join us in celebrating the 100th anniversary of Frida Kahlo's birth!