Student Artists’ Books Exhibition in the Pratt Brooklyn Library

The Pratt Library is pleased to announce an exhibition of student work that is currently on display in the Brooklyn Campus Library. Both Robbin Silverberg and Miriam Schaer’s Tech 545: Art of the Book classes have filled the display cases with their work from the semester that includes single page books sewn pamphlets, accordion fold books, concertinas, case bindings and altered book forms.

There is also a display of “Books on Books” highlighting items from the Brooklyn Library’s collections that deal with artists’ books, bookbinding, book covers and more.

The student exhibition is on display only through May 5. Please visit the library before the end of the semester to see this fabulous show!

New JSTOR Platform

Fans of JSTOR, one of the full text article databases accessible via the Pratt Institute Libraries’ E-Resources web page, will be pleased to note several new features available with the new JSTOR platform. Improvements include:

• The “MyJSTOR” feature, which allows users to save a list of citations within JSTOR
• Thumbnail images of articles make it easier to identify articles within search results
• Numerous search capabilities, including limiting by discipline and stemming of search terms
• Searches are saved to a search history within each session