Sharing to Facebook and Other Social Accounts Enabled in the Catalog

We have just implemented a method to share records in the AUR Library Catalog to your Facebook, Twitter, Blog etc. account, We did it using the AddThis button.

When you get to any record in the catalog, you will see

in the right hand-column, and you can use this to make a link into whatever account you may use. Take a look at this record and you will see it under the image of the book cover.

Let us know if you like it!

New Featured Resource: Who Protects Antiquity?

We have added a new Featured Resource to the catalog: Who Protects Antiquity? was a forum held just a few days ago at the Graduate Center of CUNY, among four distinguished archaeologists who debated the contentious issue of cultural preservation today. Some of their topics are "How nationalism interferes with archaeology," "Current methods for discouraging looting," "The myriad causes of archaological destruction" and many others. There is also a lively Question & Answer sesssion after the main talk.

The Featured Resource also provides a few handy links into the AUR Library catalog and into some particularly useful sources on the web.

Don'f forget our Archive of Featured Resources, which has all of our previous Featured Resources.

Update to Browse the Catalog

Do you like to browse the shelves of a bookstore or library? Almost everybody does. It's an interesting and highly personal way to get to know what is on particular bookshelves.

Unfortunately, it turns out that browsing the shelves has never been one of the better ways to find information. You wind up missing lots of materials because you cannot always be sure that everything on your topic is placed together on the shelves. There are many reasons why physical books that you might consider to be on a single topic may not be shelved together. (For more information, see the section on Browsing in the AUR Library Information Wiki)

This is the way it has always been, since the days of the ancient Egyptian Empire and the Library of Alexandria, but it is especially true today since there are all kinds of electronic resources that can never exist on any bookshelves at all. The AUR Library Catalog has attempted to fix this however. We have created a method to Browse the Catalog for related items, which we have just updated.

As you see, it's still not a really easy task, but if you read the instructions, it should be much easier. The AUR Library has two classification systems: the Dewey Decimal System (Dewey), and the Library of Congress Classification (LC) and you will need to click on Conversion to Dewey or Conversion to LC to browse everything. Let's see how this works.

Let's say that you are browsing and find that you are interested in Ethics. When browsing the LC numbers you discover that you can click on BJ - Ethics and browse the catalog for our reoords on ethics, either in book form or in electronic form. But you can also click on Conversion to Dewey and discover that in the Dewey Classification, ethics is 170. Now, you are browsing everything in the catalog on ethics. This is because the records in the catalog contain either the Dewey numbers or the LC numbers or both.

There are still other resources that are not available in this way, primarily the big databases of journal articles. Why aren't they included? Because they don't have the LC or Dewey Classification numbers at all, so there is nothing to search. For these materials, you must use other methods. To find out how to search these resources (and more) check out our section on How to Find Information in the AUR Library Information Wiki.

Bibliography of the History of Art

Times are tough, even for the some of the most important institutes in the world. For several years, the J. Paul Getty Trust has published the famous Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and many libraries have subscribed to it.

The problems in the economy were shared by BHA, and the Getty tried to find other partners to continue it. They ran into complications, and decided to make it available in an open manner so now everyone can use it. Currently, the database consists of BHA (covering 1990-2007) and the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), covering the years 2008 and part of 2009. Soon, there will also be the Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA), one of the predecessors of BHA, with records that cover 1975–1989.

You can access this database through the AUR Databases page, which you can access from the main page of the catalog.

Please note that this database does not contain full-text sources!

This is an index, which provides summaries for the articles in different journals and books. If you want a specific article you find in BHA, you must still get it. If you need help with this

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