RSS feeds (an abbreviation for Really Simple Syndication):

• Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format
• Help with user control and time management
• You are alerted to new content so there is no need to constantly search web sites of interest
• Feeds do not clog up email inboxes
• You can embed feeds into blogs or web pages
• You use feed reader to manage your subscriptions

Art and Architecture Resources and Copyright Resources

• A list of the top twenty Art Blogs compiled by compiled by Joy Garnett, Associate Library Manager, Robert Goldwater Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art

http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/vrc/2008/02/06/top-20-or-so-art-blogs/

• Kelly Rylance (Head of Tulane's Southeastern Architectural Archive and the Architecture Library) blog

http://southeasternarchitecture.blogspot.com/

• The world’s largest art information service

http://MutualArt.com

• CultureGrrrl Blog

http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/

• Douglass Mclennan’s Arts Beat Blog, and Arts Journal Blogs in general

feed://www.artsjournal.com/ajblogcentral/index.xml

• Art Daily

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp

• Errol Morris’ New York Times Blog

http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/

• Siva Vaidhyanathan's Googlization of Everything for issues regarding copyright as well

http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/

• Copyright rebel Lawrence Lessig's blo

http://www.lessig.org/blog/

• The Art Newspaper

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/

• The Essential Vermeer Blog

http://www.essentialvermeer.com/b_form.html

• 24 Hour Museum

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/home.rss

• CAA News

http://www.collegeart.org/news/feed/

• Delicious Bookmarks from SNAP, the ARLIS library student and new professionals group

http://delicious.com/arlisnap

• Rhizome, Contemporary Art Information

http://rhizome.org/

• Dwell Magazine

www.dwell.com

Resources to keep up with technology and teaching with technology

• Academic Commons

Academic Commons aims to share knowledge, develop collaborations, and evaluate and disseminate digital tools and innovative practices for teaching and learning with technology.

http://www.academiccommons.org/

• Technology in the Arts Blog, from Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Arts Management and Technology

http://www.technologyinthearts.org/

• Museum 2.0 Blog

Directed toward museums and their use of Web 2.0 technologies, but applicable to anyone interested in applying Web 2.0 to an academic environment. Explores Web 2.0 technologies deeply and incisively.

http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/

• NITLE (National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education) Liberal Education Today Blog

An incredible blog devoted to issues of education in the digital age.

http://b2e.nitle.org/index.php

• New Media Consortium RSS News Feed

The New Media Consortium (NMC) is consortium of nearly 300 learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies.

feed://www.nmc.org/rss.xml

• New York Times Bits Blog

Stronger emphasis on business and technology, but a great place to keep track of trends and changes.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/

• Educause’s  “7 Things You Should Know About” series

Provides a concise explanation of emerging technologies and related practices.

http://www.educause.edu/7495&bhcp=1

• TASI Lightbox

http://www.tasi.ac.uk/blog/feed/

• David Silver’s Blog (Professor of New Media Studies at University of San Francisco)

http://silverinsf.blogspot.com/

• Chronicle of Higher Education

feed://feeds.chronicle.com/chronicle/news

• VRC-Blog for the Visual Resources Center at Fairfiled University: http://blog.fairfield.edu/vrc/
• All Things Visual, Visual Resources Collection, Department of Art History, The University of Chicago: http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/vrc/
• Deep Focus, Visual Resources Collection, School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin: http://soa.utexas.edu/vrc/blog/
• Derivative Image, Visual Resources Collection, Department of Art and Art History, University of Colorado at Boulder: http://aahvrc.blogspot.com/
• Unmasked, Visual Media Center, School of Art and Art History, University of Denver: http://duvmc.wordpress.com
• Visual Resources Center Blog, Otis College of Art and Design: https://blogs.otis.edu/vrclib/ (NB: Type this URL into your browser; for some reason the hyperlink in this document does not work.)
• Visual Resources Center Blog, Savannah College of Art and Design: http://blog.scad.edu/vrc/
• Visual Resources Library, Western Michigan University: http://visualresourceslibrary.blogspot.com/

The Art History Department's Visual Resources Collection is currently involved in an exciting new initiative with ARTstor. ARTstor is a digital library of almost one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities and the social sciences, and is available to the campus community through the Ithaca College Library's website [www.ithacalibrary.com/research/databases.php]. Beginning in Fall 2009, the VRC's own collection of almostt 20,000 digital images will be made available to the entire Ithaca College community through ARTstor's hosting program, for use by faculty and students across campus, both inside and outside the classroom. 

The hosting program allows the VRC to upload the Art History Department's teaching collection of images to ARTstor's site.  This will provide faculty with an even larger repository of images for teaching and student study, and also allow the department's images to be seamlessly integrated with ARTstor's vast collection, either via ARTstor's online presentation tools, or through its Offline Image Viewer. The VRC will continue to expand the department's digital image database and will be adding new images to the ARTstor repository on an ongoing basis.

From ARTstor:

ARTstor is working with over 90 participating institutions to host their local institutional collections on ARTstor servers. Hosted collections are available to students, faculty, and staff at participating institutions and allow them to access their own content alongside images from the ARTstor Digital Library.

The three-year Institutional Collections Pilot Program launched in 2004 and concluded fall 2007. The pilot phase demonstrated community interest in our hosting service and provided a representative sample of common visual resource collection management practices at a variety of institutions. We are now in Hosting Phase II (2008-2011) during which we continue to develop hosted collections but also focus on developing tools and workflows that more efficiently and effectively accommodate the needs of our community.

www.artstor.org

 Information will be included here about flickr and the image commons.

www.flickr.com

Transform your browser into a lightning fast, cinematic way to discover the Web. 

Information here will be regarding this interesting program.

www.cooliris.com/

 This section will include information related to geotagging.

www.flickr.com/groups/geotagging/

www.panimages.org/ 

Information here will be about Pan Images a cross-lingual image search engine