NPVRC FACULTY INSTRUCTIONS Continued

NPVRC FACULTY INSTRUCTIONS continued

Susan DeMaio Smutny

Visual Resources Librarian

Art History

Faculty Instructions SAB 106

845/257-3873

·  Point your browser to https://mdid.newpaltz.edu

Just login using your regular New Paltz userid and password—

The splash page gives you some hints about browsing the collection, but here are some more fleshed out instructions:

·  Click on Search from the menu at left

o  Check the box for the SUNY New Paltz Art History Slide Collection before you begin. For now, click only this one collection to search.

o  You might begin with a keyword search by entering a term in the “search for keyword” field

o  When performing a keyword search, or using a keyword as a filter if you need to refine the results of a search, it helps to use an asterisk (*) as a wildcard after a root word or even the first few (3+) characters of a word or name you may not remember how to spell, (eg. drawing* finds drawing and drawings).

o  A tilde (~) after a word will find word forms, as well as words that include accent marks (Cezanne~ will find both Cezanne and Cézanne-with or without the accent)

·  Once you have a results set of thumbnails from your search, view a larger image of the thumb by clicking it. A viewer window will open up a larger, zoomable image and all the data attached to the image. Close the window when you are done viewing the larger image.

·  Download an image by clicking on the floppy disk icon below each thumb. I have set the database to download the largest available .jpg for faculty users.

·  Sample search, for American artist, Terry Winters:

o  Enter 'winters' in *search for keyword* field. You will get 40 hits

o  Hints:

§  Set your search page to show results 10, 25 or 50 records at a time.

§  Thumbnail images are sorted by a field you select. Select a field, such as Object Type, to help sort images. For example, we have three types of Terry Winters images: drawings, paintings and prints. A sort on Object Type lists them alphabetically by Object Type

§  View all the thumbs more compactly when you select "no" information from one of the dropdown lists at the top of the "Search Results" page.

§  Filter your results using a certain term, such as a particular object term (eg. “photogravure”-7 hits) or image title word (eg. "fungus"-1 hit) Remember to click the floppy disk icon to download an image to your computer.

·  Browse, by clicking on it from the menu on the left

·  Select SUNY New Paltz Art History Slide Collection from the Collection drop down list.

·  Select a Field to Browse through.

o  Try Creator Sort. This has artists listed last name first.

o  Also try the Classification Field which corresponds to the Classification typed on the bottom label of each slide in the Slide Library.

§  For example, Modern French Painting gets you all the heavy hitters in 19th and 20th Century French Painting.

§  Then back on the Search Results page, you can use a filter (keyword) to narrow your results to a single artist.

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Susan DeMaio Smutny, VR Librarian, SAB 106, x3873