Pratt Institute Libraries now on Flickr!

The Pratt Institute Libraries are pleased to announce the launch of our Flickr digital image collections, comprised of over 1,600 images from our Archives and special Collections. Digitized in 2005 and 2006 through the assistance of grants from the Metropolitan New York Library Council, these images have been added to Flickr for increased visibility and research access, and have already garnered over 25,000 views during the collection-building phase in March and April 2009.

Images currently include historic photographs of Pratt Institute from its inception through the 1980s, selections from our collection of pochoir fashion plates from La Gazette du Bon Ton, and our entire collection of over 1,300 early twentieth-century bookplates.

For collection descriptions and links to our Flickr sets, visit http://library.pratt.edu/digital.html.

New Director of Multi-Media Services

We’re starting a new feature on the library blog: Get to know a staff member! Our featured staff member is Chris Arabadjis, the new Director of Multi-Media Services. Chris has been the Assistant Director of Multi-Media Services for 8 years, and graduated from Pratt in 2001 with an MFA in Painting and Drawing.

Never been to MMS? Come by the lower level of the library to borrow two DVDs overnight, or check out equipment from the CAVS office on the 3rd floor of the Engineering Building. For more information check out the MMS website at http://library.pratt.edu/media.html.