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Faculty: take this survey and the Library will donate to the UC Berkeley Food Pantry
The UC Berkeley Library Faculty Survey
Oct. 1-31, 2018
To more effectively serve you, the UC Berkeley Library is partnering with national research organization Ithaka S+R to conduct a survey of all faculty. The results will help the Library set priorities and design services to best align with your needs.
Each respondent has a chance of winning one of five $100 prepaid Visa cards, and the Library will donate $2 to the UC Berkeley Food Pantry for every completed survey.
How to take the survey: Faculty received an email on Oct. 1
Details: ucberk.li/survey-FAQ
Forthcoming Publication from Professor Whitney Davis
Whitney Davis (George C. and Helen N. Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art at UC Berkeley), is publishing Visuality and Virtuality: Images and Pictures from Prehistory to Perspective with Princeton University Press, forthcoming, November 2017 (ISBN: 9780691171944).
From the Princeton University Press website:
“This book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework established in Whitney Davis’s acclaimed previous book, A General Theory of Visual Culture, in which he shows how certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewers. Here, Davis uses revealing archaeological and historical case studies to further develop his theory, presenting an exacting new account of the interaction that occurs when a viewer looks at a picture.
A profound new theory of the work of both makers and viewers by one of the discipline’s most esteemed and engaged thinkers, Visuality and Virtuality is essential reading for art historians, architects, archaeologists, and philosophers of art and visual theory.”
Interlibrary loan expands to international institutions
The UC Berkeley Interlibrary Services Department is now partnering with peer international institutions such as University of Edinburgh and Munich’s Bayerische Staatsbibliothek to share library resources. This pilot program, available to support the research needs of faculty and graduate students, expands the service beyond the photocopies that were available previously. Patrons can submit their requests using the Request button in Melvyl. The pilot program, which is free, will last through the summer of 2015.
Questions? Phone the Interlibrary Service Department at (510) 642-7365.