Tramway's YouTube Channel

The Tramway in Glasgow has now launched its own YouTube channel, providing a space to find out about the venue and its programme.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/GlasgowTramway
Access: Free

Attitudes in Drawing

InfosmART Workshop, Weds 11 November 2009

Need help on how to reference a source, write a bibliography, or set out an essay? Librarian Duncan Chappell will be providing a short session of the Library's InfosmART site TOMORROW WEDS 11 NOVEMBER 2009 AT 12.30 ON THE TOP FLOOR OF THE LIBRARY. InfosmART provides a set of easy-to-follow interactive modules in finding, evaluating and citing information. Hosted on the VLE, the InfosmART resource provides an easy one-stop shop for all your information skills needs. This workshop forms part of the Library's 20/20 workshop programme.

Siegfried Sassoon

Oxford University is marking this year’s Armistice by launching the first ever online collection of the manuscripts of Siegfried Sassoon, focusing on his war poetry. This is the first time these have gone online and they present a comprehensive collection of his war poetry, reassembled from collections across the world. The work forms part of Oxford University’s First World War poetry digital archive, enabling online users to view over 12,000 previously unseen materials such as poetry manuscripts, letters, and original diary entries from some of the conflict’s most important poets including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Vera Brittain.
Link: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/sassoon
Access: Free

Poetry Pamphlet Fair

The Bonefolder

The Bonefolder vol. 6 no.1 Fall 2009 has just been released online. Contents include:

• The Thread That Binds: Interviews with private practice bookbinders – Pamela Train Leutz
• Sharing Something Beautiful for Free: Reflections on a public arts project – Regula Russelle
• Follow-ed – Tom Sowden
• Book ­ Type ­ Machine – Craig Saper
• Successfully Creating a Single-section Pamphlet German Case Binding – Barbara Tetenbaum
• Surface Gilding – James Reid-Cunningham
• In Memoriam David P. Bourbeau – Barbara B. Blumenthal and Henry Lyman
• The Hybrid Book: Intersection and Intermedia – A report by Alisa Fox, Dorothy Krause, and Shawn Simmons
• Book Arts Education in Transition – A conversation between Steve Miller and Shawn K. Simmons
• Freestyle Books – A review by Doug Spowart
• Text/Messages: Books by Artists – A review by Karen Wirth
• Book + Art: Handcrafting Artists’ Books – A review by John Cutrone
• Ed Hutchin’s Book Dynamics! – A review by Miriam Schaer
• Bind-O-Rama 2009

Link: http://www.philobiblon.com/bonefolder/vol6no1contents.htm
Access: Free

Tribal Cultures in South Asia

Rare images showing rituals, festivals and everyday life for isolated tribes in the Himalayas are to be preserved online by JISC and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Highlights include the the shaman-led rituals and acrobatics of the Apatani tribe. These extraordinary moments were photographed by a professor of anthropology at SOAS, Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf (1909-1995), who studied tribal cultures in South Asia and the Himalayas from the 1930’s to the 1980’s. His photographic collection consists of more than 20,000 images of which approximately half, from India and Nepal, are now online for people to browse, download and use non-commercially free of charge.
Link: http://digital.info.soas.ac.uk/
Access: Free

Radio News Archive

The UK’s first online commercial radio sound archive has been launched, preserving over 5,000 searchable recordings including the first hour of UK commercial radio in 1973, coverage of five UK general elections and the end of apartheid. The collection is available online for researchers, lecturers and students at the LBC / Independent Radio News (IRN) radio news audio archive which gives access to the catalogue and audio of reports filed by some of the UK’s leading journalists including Jon Snow, the late Carol Barnes and Dickie Arbiter.
Link: http://radio.bufvc.ac.uk/lbc/
Access: Free

Scotland's History

The Scottish Government announced last week the launch of an online portal which aims to raise the profile of Scottish history at home and abroad. Scotland’s History Online covers a range of subjects, from prehistoric through to 21st Century Scotland. With more than 200 topics that include links to over 1,000 other online sources and a wide range of interactive supporting materials.
Link: http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scotlandshistory/
Access: Free

Conceptual Art in Amsterdam

The MoMA website has provided this online version of their exhibition 'In and Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976', which ran from 19 July to 5 October 2009. This online resource is accessed via a gallery floorplan, with a section for each of the ten artists represented, ranging from Bas Jan Ader to George and Gilbert, all of whom spent considerable amounts of time in Amsterdam, which was the nexus of intense art activities in the 1960s and 1970s. The website provides an introduction and offers a selection of the 75 works that were on display. A timeline is also provided.
Link: http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2009/inandout/
Access: Free

Antony Gormley

The Tate's website has provided this online resource about the sculptor, Anthony Gormley. This series of videos includes an introduction to Gormley's art by Dr Richard Noble, Visual Arts Department, Goldsmiths College. Four examples of Gormley's work can be explored in individual video files, 'Bed'; 'Natural Selection'; 'Sound II'; and 'Another Place'. Gormley also discusses his work in an online interview. Alternatively the video can be viewed in segments where Gormley answers individual questions: 'Is modern art for everyone?', 'What significance does the body have in 21st century art?' or 'Has being an artist been liberating for you?'
Link: http://www.tate.org.uk/btseries/bb/antonygormley/
Access: Free

Dutch Picture Books

Dutch picture book covers from 1810 - 1950, via Bibliodyssey.
Link: http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/11/dutch-covers.html
Access: Free

Marcus du Sautoy on Symmetry

The world turns on symmetry, from the spin of subatomic particles to the dizzying beauty of an arabesque. But there's more to it than meets the eye. In the latest TED talk, Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy offers a glimpse of the invisible numbers that marry all symmetrical objects.
Link: http://blog.ted.com/2009/10/symmetry_realit.php
Access: Free

Journal of Art Historiography

The University of Glasgow has announced it is launching the open access Journal of Art Historiography, with the first issue due at the end of December 2009. “This journal exists to support and promote the study of the history of art historical writing [...] encourage the full range of enquiry that encompassed the visual arts in its broadest sense as well as topics now falling within archaeology, anthropology, ethnography and other specialist disciplines and approaches”
Link: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/arthistoriography/

V&A Search the Collections

The V&A has just launched its Search the Collections website. Online visitors can now access one million V&A object records. The online records vary from detailed studies written by curators to more basic inventory information which might include the maker, provenance, production technique and style and Google maps showing places of origin. Visitors can also look up whether an object is on display and where in the V&A it can be found.
Link: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/
Access: Free

Derek Jarman's Garden

Flickr set of photographs of filmmaker Derek Jarman's garden in Dungeness.
Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/angusf/sets/656542/
Access: Free

Crafts Council Research

The Crafts Council has launched an online research hub, packed full of craft research links and resources. Drawing together research reports, blogs, conference proceedings and online discussion groups with links to academic research centres and major public sector research agencies, the hub is set to become a significant resource for contemporary craft research in the UK.
The research hub enables the nature and value of contemporary craft to be explored from a range of social, economic and cultural perspectives, invaluable for craft makers, teachers and other sector professionals, as well as students and researchers. Currently in its pilot phase, the hub will be updated and developed over the coming year in response to feedback.
Link: http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/professional-development/research-and-information/
Access: Free

Frieze Art Fair Podcasts

This year’s Frieze Art Fair talks are now available to stream or download. Talks include John Baldessari in conversation with Matthew Higgs and Sylvère Lotringer on the relationshop between art and theory.
Link: http://www.friezeartfair.com/podcasts/
Access: Free

Children's Illustration 2

The Virtual Children's Books Exhibits website is hosted by Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University, and showcases items from Cotsen's collection of children's materials dating from the 15th century onwards. The site is divided into four virtual exhibits, entitled: 'Water Babies'; 'Magic Lantern'; 'Creepy-Crawlies'; and 'Beatrix Potter'. Each exhibit consists of images taken from books or works that relate to the overall theme. The images are accompanied by brief descriptions and where relevant, publication and date information.
Link: http://library.princeton.edu/libraries/cotsen/exhibitions/index.html
Access: Free

Children's Illustration

A Taste of Horton' is a website hosted by Aberystwyth University Library and Information Services that shows some illustrations from this valuable collection of rare children's material (much of it in English) from the 18th and 19th centuries.
The website gives a sample of the items available in the physical collection, via an index of authors leading to descriptions of selected works, with digital images of a few of the illustrations from each.
Link: http://www.inf.aber.ac.uk/academicliaison/horton/default.asp
Access: Free

Berlin Wall

This collection of television and radio clips from the BBC Archive looks at how one city, Berlin, came to represent the political stand-off between East and West during the Cold War. It also explores what the consequences of this were for citizens united by family, employment and friendship but divided by a 27-mile-long fortified concrete and mesh barrier: the Berlin Wall.
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/berlinwall/
Access: Free

East European Book Covers

Flickr set of weird and wonderful East European book covers.
Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/danmeth/sets/72157622487258318/
Access: Free

Martin Parr Talks

Photographer Martin Marr discusses his latest exhibition Parrworld in the latest of Baltic's podcasts.
Link: http://www.balticmill.com/podcasts/
Access: Free

Cuthbert Bede and Victorian Photography

October’s Book of the Month from Edinburgh University Library is “Photographic Pleasures” by Cuthbert Bede. The book is a comical and satirical Victorian work about development of early photography, and it provides a concise insight into the world of Victorian photography. The book, published in 1855, treats the subject of photography in a light-hearted and humorous manner, and is illustrated throughout with drawings by the author.
Link: http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/oct2009.html
Access: Free

Electric Dreams

If you want to study the effects of technology on families, society, and behaviour take a look at this series on BBC iplayer that gets a family to live through technolgy changes since 1970. Over 30 days one family travel from 1970 to 2000, living with nothing but the technology around at the time. An interactive “Time Tunnel” provided on the website that accompanies the series allows you to travel through the 70s, 80s & 90s.
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/electricdreams/time-tunnel/index.shtml
Access: Free