Alumni works on Display at the Krieble Library

In cooperation with the college gallery committee and the office of the Dean of College the Krieble Library has been added to the official exhibition spaces for works in alumni artisits collection.

Works include: sculptures, paintings, mixed media and drawings from our alumni artists.

This collection will be added to each year. Artists currently on display are:

Abrams, Stephanie
Anderson, Andrea
Ayala Cruz, Carlos D.
Blum, Shanna
Bowerman, Greg
Clarke, Kay Knight
Delgado, Siciliana Lindica
Fuchs, Lou
Giannini, Stephan
Hammatt, Alex
Heldreth, Brenda
Holder, Judy
Holley, Anne
Martin, Michelle Terese
Potter, Dan
Siegel, Suzanne
Thornton, Jessica
Wyatt, Victoria

All are welcome to come view these works during the Krieble Library's posted hours. posted online at: http://www.lymeacademy.edu/The_Library/libhours.htm

Additional work on display(not by alumni) is an Anatomy Drawing -- a framed classroom scroll from George Brant Bridgman, donated by Deane G. Keller.

30 Year Celebration! Alumni Visit Campus! Library + Images from the Campus Photo Archive

Welcome!
All alumni and guests attending our campus celebrations this weekend are welcome to visit and tour the Krieble Library. The library will be open on December 1 (Friday) from 8:30am - 5pm and on December 2 (Saturday) from 1-5pm.

**images posted are snapshots from our college photo archive.

Last Lunchtime Film Break of the Fall 2006 Semester -- Cezanne - December 5

The Library and Student Services will be hosting a lunch time viewing of a film on the artist Cezanne in the Academic Center Lecture Hall. Bring your lunch and enjoy! Pop-corn will be provided by the Cafe.

Cezanne. West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, 2000. Paul Cezanne sought a method of capturing the underlying structure of any subject matter, in landscape, in still-life, and in portraiture. His eventual triumph derived from a revolutionary new approach to color and to perspective. His paintings were often derided by the critics, but by the end of his life, his fenius was beginning to be appreciated. Cezanne's influence on 20th century artists was so great that he is now referred to as the "Father of Modern Painting."

If you have film titles you'd like to suggest for the Spring Semester Viewings please contact Daya in our Student Services department at 860 434-5232 x 134

Library Acquisitions Supported by The Betsey Sturges Memorial Gift

The family and friends of Betsey Sturges, artist, directed a very generous gift to the Krieble Library in her honor. As a result, this semester we are able to purchase several new titles with special funding from the Betsey Sturges Memorial Gift!


We have purchased:
LECTURES ON ARTISTIC ANATOMY & FIGURE DRAWING
by
ROBERT BEVERLY HALE

VIDEOTAPED AT THE
ART STUDENT'S LEAGUE OF NEW YORK

Series of 10 DVD'S (over 13 hours)

THE LECTURE SERIES: Realizing that the Hale lectures ought to be preserved for posterity, in 1976, before he retired, Mr. Hale's entire Monday night series of lectures was videotaped in black and white in the order that he delivered them at the Art Student's League of New York. Future generations of artists and students will be able to benefit from the vast knowledge and penetrating insights of these famous lectures, with all the warmth and wit that makes them such a memorable experience. Throughout the lectures, you see Mr. Hale demonstrating to his students the basic structure, proportions, anatomical details, function and renderings of the human figure, by way of the human skeleton and by his skillful step by step drawings.

Additionally, we have the full series of DVDs from Glenn Vilppu's anatomy course and figure drawing manual on order.

We are deeply appreciative of this gift and are very please to announce this special acquisition!

Best,
Loree Bourgoin
Librarian and Director of the Krieble Library

Our Staff and Students in ArtSmart!

ARTSMART

November 8, on campus there will be a return of ArtSmart! ArtSmart Maestro Jerry Weiss, along with the two teams, one of three students and one of three staff and our very own “Vanna” to keep score, will embark on yet another brain twisting session.

The staff team will include our very own Access Services Coordinator from the Krieble Library, the fantastic Ms. Stephanie Johnson!

How good is you’re knowledge of art history trivia? Audience Fun! Team fun! Come one, come all!

If you’ve never been to an ArtSmart before, here’s your chance to be a part of a very unique Lyme Academy tradition! Wednesday at Noon in the Academic Center Lecture Hall.

How to find materials when our OPAC is down

Please use staff to assist you in locating materials in our library this afternoon.

We will be conducting some system maintenance on our library catalog today, Tuesday Nov. 7^th between the hours of 1-3pm.

During that time our library catalog (a.k.a. OPAC) will be unavailable.

Never fear, when the system is down, our staff on duty is always a good back-up to aid you in determining what resources might answer your questions and satisty your research needs. Indeed, we are always happy to assist patrons in locating books and visual resources and especially while our catalog is down!

Please, note, all other online resources, Internet and databases, will be available throughout the day. Any questions please ask staff at the Library during business hours!

Real-time, web-based reference service

Now our campus has access to a online reference service! InfoAnytime - the statewide virtual reference project coordinated by the Connecticut Library Consortium (CLC) a statewide membership collaborative serving all types of Connecticut libraries has come to the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts library.

InfoAnyTime is a real-time, web-based reference service that provides live librarians to assist students, faculty and the public in finding information to support their research. It allows students and patrons to connect to a professional librarian 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Sessions are conducted via online chat, using pushing and co-browsing technology to display information found on the web and in the iCONN databases. Currently the Microsoft IE or Firefox browsers are recommended. Basically anyone with a web browser can access the service - without extra add-on software.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Users of the service click on the InfoAnyTime link on their library's web site, enter their name and email address (optional), and wait a few moments for a librarian to come online.

Professional, highly-trained librarians conduct reference interviews via online chat, and provide answers and further resources in the form of web sites and online database citations. These online resources appear directly on the user's screen, next to the chat session window. The user may interact both with the web sites provided and with the librarian until his/her question has been answered satisfactorily.

At the end of each session, both the participant and the reference librarians at the college receive transcripts of the session via email.

All LACFA students, staff and faculty are welcome to bring their questions about this new service to the staff at our campus library.

Krieble Library· LACFA · 84 Lyme Street · Old Lyme, CT 06371· 860.434.5232 ext. 130 or library@lymeacademy.edu

Formal Demonstrations of this service have been offered on: Wednesday, October 4 at 11:45am (Faculty Council) and Thursday, October 26 at 1:30pm (English Class). Additional open session demonstrations are being scheduled, please look for future annoucements or inquire directly with the librarian about the next session.

Halloween Film Viewing

The Library and Student Services will be hosting a lunch time viewing of a film on the artist Munch in the Academic Center Lecture Hall. Bring your lunch and enjoy!

Today's Film: Munch. West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, 2000. In 1893, a Norwegian artist created a masterpiece which became a definihs image of the 20th century: "The Scream". All his life, Edvard Munch suffered the consequences of a childhood surrounded by maddness and death. By middle-age his own being broke down completely. His pictures, by then, had gained him fame across Europe. As a young man he left Norway to live the Bohemian life.

Hands-on Class with Wireless

Let me share some good news!

Last Thursday I conducted our first in-classroom hands-on library instruction class!

I made use of our 3 wireless Mac laptops (and borrowed another), to provide Brian C’s class of 15, four group workstations.

The session was to introduce the class to our new infoAnytime service and database searching.

The students were able to share the workstations and actively experience using library resources. This is a major step forward from our more passive look-view demonstrations of the past. I look forward to continuing our development of library classes in this same hands-on mode!

I am thankful for the generosity of the Bodenwein Public Benevolent Foundation and other private benefactors for their support which has enabled us to bring as needed wireless and Mac laptops to this campus.

I look forward to advancing our development of our classroom instruction resources and the future establishment of permanent wireless access across campus.

My experience yesterday was inspiring! Inital feedback from the students and instructor was that the hands-on mode is far better!

Loree Bourgoin

Librarian and Director of Krieble Library

"What the Krieble Library has for YOU…"

Dear Students and Faculty of the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts:

1. Staff… to answer questions & help you find what you need. Contact us anytime, in person, by phone or email. 860 434.5232 ext. 130 or Library@lymeacademy.edu

2. Books, articles & visual resources… to support your curricular studies for your general study and studio courses.

3. Collection Search tool (OPAC)… our library collections: books | videos | magazines & journals … are searchable in our online public access catalog(OPAC) which is available at library workstations or on the web at: http://follett.lymeacademy.edu/webopac/main

4. Photocopier & Scanner… to reproduce | reduce | enlarge | capture images…

5. Course Reserves … books | articles | images … readings assigned by your faculty and made accessible in the library.

6. Reference Services + Instruction … Ask the librarian or attend a class or workshop offered in the library to learn to efficiently search online, conduct research and locate images… learn about what resources are available to you.

7. Computers… for research | Internet | email | word processing …

8. Online Access to Resources… for quick facts, starting points or for in-depth research. See the online access listings on our library webpage. Note: some resources accessible off-campus with proper registration.

9. Periodical Articles… seek articles for your latest studies in the liberal arts & sciences & studio arts… use our periodical indexes & databases to locate essays and full text articles to match your topic of research.

10. Interlibrary Loan… a service to assist you to gain access to resources from other libraries without having to travel.

Review additional details on the library website. http://www.lymeacademy.edu/The_Library/libhome.htm

Library Methods and Materials 101

Experiences the first year on campus vary for each student. The Library Methods and Materials Seminar is designed to help introduce the library and encourage the use of it and its resources. This seminar is formally offered to all first year students as an opportunity to start learning about what is avaialble and to encourage the understanding of what research provides and how to do it well.

Fall 2006's Library Methods and Materials Seminar was offered on September 14, 2006

Students attending where asked to consider the library in respect to how it relates to their work in the studios and classrooms. That when using the library their work would be similar to the work in the studios in that there are methods and materials to learn for the library. Also that their library research could follow similar and creative paths, that what they discovered in the library could play and interactive role in their class and studio assignments.

The lesson objectives that day were for each student to start to understand:

• the layout of the library and basic locations of resources
• their responsibilities as students using the library AND finally …
• to come away with the idea that the library will play both a creative and educational role in their time as a student at our college.

Further students were asked to engage in exploring the library. Lesson handouts were provided. For copies please stop by my office.

The next Library Methods and Materials 101 seminar will be offer during the Spring 2007 semester. -- Loree Bourgoin, Librarian.