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Computers and Databases

Computers are available for public use in the Edward D. Auer Memorial Art Library's Reading Room. Internet access, printing, and scanning are available in addition to the vast programmatic offerings that will assist with word processing, spreadsheet design, database building, and photo and video editing.  Black and white printing is available at $.10 per page.

The computers for public use in the library are free resources meant to be enjoyed by all.  We ask that no personal files or projects are stored or saved to the public computers. FWMoA's public computers have limited hard drive space and we cannot guarantee your files or project will be saved or unaltered if you return to work on it at a later date. Please bring a CD/DVD Rom, external hard drive, or flash drive to store your work.

INSPIRE is a group of searchable databases made available to Indiana residents through the Indiana State Library. This resource includes magazine and journal articles, websites, pamphlets, images, almanacs, library catalogs, and more. Many of the articles are full text and can be viewed in a .pdf or html format.  Academic Search Premier, ERIC® and Indiana Memory! are among the many database that are available to search in INSPIRE.  INSPIRE will be available at the Auer Library in April 2010.

 

 

ARTstor is a digital library of more than one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, and students at a variety of institutions including universities, colleges, museums, public libraries, and K-12 schools. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies, all of whom find the images in ARTstor to be relevant to their teaching and research (artstor.org).  ARTstor will be available in the Auer Library in April 2010 or now with a Fort Wayne Museum of Art Teacher Membership.

 

Jstor is a database of scholarly articles that cover a vast range of academic disciplines.  With participation and support from the international scholarly community, JSTOR has created a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive of scholarship, is actively preserving over one thousand academic journals in both digital and print formats, and continues to significantly expand access to scholarly works and other materials needed for research and teaching globally (jstor.org). 

 

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