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Two New Database Trials in the ECU Library: Let us Know What You Think!
Posted on October 12, 2022 | Updated October 12, 2022, 4:31pm
Filed in Faculty, Staff, Students
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The ECU Library is currently featuring two new database trials: Library Stack and The Fashion and Race Database. Take a look and let us know what you think!
Library Stack. Trial from October 6 through November 15, 2022
Access URL: https://guides.ecuad.ca/az.php?q=library%20stack
Library Stack is a growing collection of digital publications from contemporary art, design, architecture and theory. It combines a bibliographic catalog, an eBook lending system and tools for teaching and research.
LS collects numerous atypical media projects made by artists and designers, like these periodicals, podcasts, fonts, software projects, or artists’ books. It also includes open-access books from publishers like Meson Press, L’Internationale Online, Archive Books, MUTE, Onestar Press, CCA Montreal and the Institute of Network Cultures among many others.
It also includes commercial eBooks from publishers like Strelka, Sternberg, e-flux, Inventory Press, Afterall, Repeater, Reaktion, Diaphanes, Art Resources Transfer and Aperture.
The Library will use usage statistics and feedback to determine whether or not to provide access to Library Stack beyond the trial period. Please fill out this 3-minute survey to let us know what you think!
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Fashion and Race Database. Trial from October 6 through November 6, 2022.
The Fashion and Race Database provides a roadmap for lasting change in the fashion system, as it offers lessons and resources that diversify how we understand fashion. The database is an invaluable platform for those who agree that it’s time to challenge dominant narratives and harmful practices in fashion.
Content includes original sections such as “Objects that Matter,” “Essays” and “Profiles” of BIPOC fashion designers; a directory that catalogs various outside resources, practitioners, collectives and diversity initiatives; a podcast called “The Invisible Seam: Unsung Stories of Black Culture and Fashion,” where the Fashion and Race Database partners with Tommy Hilfiger; a Library of recommended resources reading lists to get started on particular themes in fashion studies.
Again, please fill out this 3-minute survey to let us know what you think. Thanks, and enjoy!