UCSD Arts Libraries

Muir College Receives $100K Getty Foundation Grant to Preserve Architectural Heritage

The University of California, San Diego’s John Muir College, one of the university’s six undergraduate colleges, has been awarded a $99,800 grant from the Getty Foundation to develop and implement a heritage preservation plan for the college’s suite of iconic, modernist buildings.

The timing of the Campus Heritage Grant coincides with the 40th anniversary of Muir College which is being celebrated in 2007-2008.

The goal of the project is to document the architectural history of Muir College, define preservation priorities and develop a plan that will help guide UC San Diego in the long term management of the college’s complex of architecturally distinctive buildings.

According to Muir College Provost Susan Smith, the pivotal force behind the project, John Muir College is “one of the oldest and most distinctive architectural ensembles on the UC San Diego campus. We are honored that the Getty Foundation has awarded us one of its Campus Heritage Grants so that we can celebrate the college’s 40th anniversary year with the creation of a formal preservation plan that will both honor its past and serve its future.” Continue reading Muir College Receives $100K Getty Foundation Grant to Preserve Architectural Heritage…

UCSD has it’s own staff “idol” contest!

Vote for your favorite Idol contestants! Voting begins each week on Tuesday at noon and ends at 12 P.M. the next day.
This will continue each week through August 15, 2007. Click here to listen & watch, and then click here to vote!

Excited about Comic-con? Well check out Siggraph too!

The University of California, San Diego will host three days of digital art performances and installations by international artists and technologists who illuminate the role digital media play in shaping, extending, and reflecting our view of the world. The cutting-edge program will take place August 4-6 at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) at UC San Diego.

The innovative, new-media performances and site-specific installations are part of the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery: Global Eyes, a component of SIGGRAPH 2007, to be held this year at the San Diego Convention Center August 5-9. Registration for the conference and exhibition is open to the general public and will attract approximately 25,000 computer graphics and interactive technology professionals from around the world to San Diego. For more info check this out.

Have you listened to these yet?

The Arts Libraries includes some extensive and amazing audio databases. Not just music, but speeches, poetry and much more can be found.

Our two newest database collections of audio are from Naxos Jazz which represents many leading jazz labels,and Naxos Music Library which is rich in classical music content.

For Vintage jazz, blues, ragtime, stage, gospel and other forms of African American musical expression check out African American Song

For over 52,000 audio tracks of classical music from the Medieval to the contemporary, with chamber music, symphonies, choral music, solo vocal and instrumental, and other forms, go to The Classical Music Library

Smithsonian Global Sound has audio tracks and related texts documenting the world’s musical traditions, along with spoken word recordings such as political speeches, and even nature sounds. The music ranges from remote cultures worldwide to famous folk musicians. Over 35,000 tracks are available!

The Database of Recorded American Music contains a wide spectrum of North American (USA) music, from 19th century to contemporary compositions, electronic music, folk, jazz, Native American music, opera and musical theater.

ARTstor’s Excellent Tool for Classroom Presentations

The Offline Image Viewer is ARTstor’s tool for reliable, Internet-independent classroom presentations. The new OIV allows the creations of presentations using personal/institutional images with or without ARTstor images.

Blank “slides” can now be created for each screen of a presentation

Customized text can now be included along with images when presenting

Multiple images and text fields can be accommodated on a single slide

Zoomed-in portions of an image can be saved for display on a slide

The background color behind the images and text, as well as the entire slide, can be customized

A smaller, presentation-only file can be exported without requiring the full-size image files

Users can choose the maximum amount of memory the application will be permitted to use on their computer

To download the OIV and create presentations try these online tutorials:
Make sure all pop-up blockers are disabled before starting the tutorials!

“Quick Guide to Creating Basic Presentations in ARTstor’s Offline Image Viewer”
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a quick and easy image presentation, how to present your presentation using the Image Palette Slideshow and how to save your presentation file for future use.

“Quick Guide to Creating Advanced Presentations in ARTstor’s Offline Image Viewer”
In this quick tutorial you will learn how to create slide templates from your image collection and then edit your slides in the Slide Editor:

Add and resize images
Capture, add and format text
Set borders and backgrounds
Present your slides in the OIV Presentation Mode

Live music at the library

As part of our ongoing Short Attention Span Chamber Music Series we present
the Geisel Library Bassoon Quartet, AKA The Burping Bedposts!

In the lower level of the Geisel Library building, West wing, on Wednesday August 1 at 12:30 p.m.

Free and open to the public