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Art Full Text Expands Coverage: Full Text for 28 Journals Added
Top Art Journalism Source Now Offers More Articles on Art, Design, Film and Media

New York, New York, April 18, 2006
The premiere resource for research in art journalism, H.W. Wilson's Art Full Text now features full text coverage back to 2000 for Art in America, The Magazine Antiques, and five distinguished journals from Oxford University Press. Full text coverage for additional journals, including six important journals from Intellect, Ltd. has been added beginning with the first 2006 issues.

The new coverage spans a wide range of subjects in art, design, film, and media, and brings the number of journals now in full text to nearly 170 diverse titles. Art Full Text also indexes and abstracts some 470 journals, including indexing of the art reproductions that accompany articles. The database can also be searched seamlessly with other popular WilsonWeb art research databases, such as the image database Art Museum Image Gallery (direct access to more than 100,000 images), and Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984, for thorough research in a single session.

Full Text Additions

Published by Brant Publications
Art in America
The Magazine Antiques

Published by Oxford University Press
Asian Art & Culture
Journal of Design History
Journal of the History of Collections
Oxford Art Journal
Screen (London, England)

Published by Intellect, Ltd.
Art Design and Communication in Higher Education
International Journal of Education Through Art
International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media
Journal of Media Practice
Journal of Visual Arts Practice
Technoetic Arts

Other Journals
American Artist
ARQ
Arte y Parte
ArtUS
Beaux-Arts Magazine
Drawing
Impressions
Material Culture
Millennium Film Journal
NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art
Novyi Mir Iskusstva: The New World of Art Magazine
Rock Art Research
Visual Resources Association Bulletin
Umbrella
Watercolor

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HEADLINE: Librarians are Instant Messaging at the UMD Library

BYLINE: By Jim Vileta, UMD Library

SOURCE: University of Minnesota Duluth

DATELINE: Duluth, MN

BODY:
The UMD Library has launched a new service to offer online assistance in real time to UMD students, faculty and staff. With the launch of the new Ask Us! Instant Messaging (IM) service, people are now able to quickly communicate with a librarian without leaving the comfort of their computers at home, in their offices or even in the Library.

According to Jim Vileta, team member of the Library's Virtual Reference Services, the Library sought ways to expand their outreach beyond in-person, telephone, and e-mail interactions. Recognizing the growing popularity of Instant Messaging (IM), the Library decided to reach out through this new avenue of communication. Now people can get immediate assistance from a librarian through Instant Messaging on AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, and GoogleTalk. With an account on one of those networks, one can contact a librarian in just a few clicks.

In addition, there is a separate sophisticated yet easy to use Chat/Co-Browse system that connects people with librarians who not only answer their questions by text chat, but also via a shared web browser. Seeing what the librarian sees empowers people to visually learn how and where to find information in the Library's Web site and databases.

These two real-time services are supplemented by an e-mail form for off hours and less time sensitive questions. A librarian usually replys within 24 hours.

IM and Chat/Co-Browse are available to all UMD faculty, staff and students. Chat/Co-Browse is available Monday through Friday from 1 to 4 p.m. IM is available whenever the Reference Desk is open -- 65 hours per week. Users seeking help at other times may use the e-mail form on the Ask Us! page. Help spread the word about Ask Us! Look for the Library's posters, table tents, and bookmarks listing our buddy names. To learn more, and learn how to connect, go to:

http://www.duluth.umn.edu/lib/askus/.

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