UPDATE August 26, 2009: The library has subscribed to the Chicago Manual of Style Online for 2009/2010. You can access the site anytime from the library homepage!

The often interesting Book Cover Archive blog just got the skinny on the legality of using NASA images for various purposes.

All publicly available NASA images are on nasaimages.org, which is co-operated by the Internet Archive. It is most likely legal for you to use them for any purpose (commercial or otherwise) unless there’s someone famous in the image.

Congratulations to the winners of the first annual Library Research Awards!

Parul Sharma won in the artwork category for her book, Gameplan for Equity, which she researched and designed in David Asari's Typography 3 course.

Brittany Luby won the research paper category for How does Cézanne's painting style express the way in which vision functions?, written in Celeste Connor's Intro to Modern Art course.

Congratulations to Casey Gardner, first prize winner in the second annual CCA Libraries Book Art Competition! Casey's book, Beyond Question: Why Go, will become a part of the CCA Libraries' permanent artists' books collection, and she will be awarded a $200 acquisition prize. Congratulations also go to honorable mention awardees Molly Prentiss and Anna Bunting, as well as all of the other artists who participated!

The Art Full Text and OmniFile Full Text article databases added a very cool feature that lets you listen to full-text articles being read by the computer. Select the "full-text html" link for any article in your search results and then select the "Listen" icon to either listen online or download an mp3 of the full article to your computer/iPod.

SPACES
Brett Amory & Nancy Chan

April 3-May 1, 2009

Opening Reception: Friday, April 3, 6-10 PM

With the recent release of Watchmen, this may be a good time to take a look at the libraries' collection of comic books and graphic novels, some of which have also already been adapted for the big screen.


Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

As of Fall 2010 slide projectors will no longer be available at the CCA Media Centers.

CCA has been preparing for slide projector obsolescence for the last five years; find out how in our timeline on transition to digital projection.

Download this flowchart to see which slides CCA faculty can submit to the library for digitization.

Looking for photos of wars and/or famous people? Well, you're in luck: ARTstor just added over 70,000 images to their new Magnum Photos collection.

Meyer Library will be hosting ArtLibrary, an exhibit of bookworks by CCA staff, from Feb 9 to 27. Be sure to also check out the ArtRead exhibit of CCA student and faculty bookworks in Oliver Art Center, as well as the 2009 Codex Bookfair at UC Berkeley next week. Join us for an opening reception for ArtLibrary in Meyer next Tuesday, Feb 10, from 5 to 8pm.

Being a librarian, and a bookish dude in general, I've got a total soft spot for works of art that deal with libraries, books, shelves of books, card catalogs, data, text, and other bibliographic subjects. Here, CCA student Jake Sollins tackles our very own Simpson Library (SF) with his video, Every Book in Simpson Library.

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UPDATE (Mar 11, 2009): from the SFPL news, "Due to electronic vendor licensing agreements, San Francisco Public Library must suspend issuing e-cards, effective immediately. Existing e-cardholders must validate their current address no later than April 10, 2009 in order to continue using SFPL databases and other electronic resources remotely..."