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Saskia Digital Art Images Now Available

The Board of Directors of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) is pleased to announce that consortium members now have access to a major collection of digital art images through CARLI’s new digital library.

CARLI has purchased the Saskia digital image archive from Scholars Resource. The collection contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections: the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt. The images are displayed in both high resolution and thumbnail format. Additionally, the descriptive data about the images includes references to the occurrences of these images in 19 major art history texts, including Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, 12th edition; Understanding Art, 7th edition; Art and Ideas, 10th edition; Discovering Art History, 4th edition. A complete list of text books is available at http://www.scholarsresource.com/Browse/BrowseTextBooks.aspx .

This archive is available to CARLI member libraries at no direct cost to the library.

Information about the Saskia collection may be found at http://www.saskia.com/

The Saskia archive is the first digital resource to be powered by CARLI’s CONTENTdm-based digital library service.

CARLI members may access the Saskia images at: http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/

On-campus access to the Saskia images is now available at most CARLI member institutions.

Off-campus access to viewing the high resolution Saskia images requires user authentication to verify CARLI affiliation. Connections that are not authenticated will be limited to viewing the thumbnail images and descriptive data. Off campus access is now available to users of the 65 I-Share libraries. Off-campus access for CARLI libraries beyond the I-Share libraries can be established though the institution’s proxy server.

For more information about CARLI’s Saskia archive contact saskia@carli.illinois.edu.

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