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Working with the images—"my group"
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Searching the Digital Collection for Graphic Materials The Lewis Walpole Library has created digital images of the vast majority
of its holdings of eighteenth-century British caricatures and satirical prints
and has begun to digitize its collection of graphic materials related to
Strawberry Hill. The Digital Collection is freely available over the web and requires no login or registration.
The images are presented through technology developed by the Beinecke Rare
Book and Manuscript Library and have been processed by Luna Imaging to
enable users to examine each image in minute detail. The images are presented The information about each image in the Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection now includes: brief (often incomplete) title; artist if known; unique identifying number (lwlpr no.); and Lewis Walpole Library call number. There are plans to expand the amount of information in the near future, and full-level cataloging in Orbis, Yale University Library's catalog, has begun. There are two ways to search the Digital Collection: Keyword and Call Number . Select “any” to broaden the Keyword search, “all” to narrow the search. Some key points to remember are:
Searching the Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection To get to the Digital Collection Search page directly go to http://lwlimages.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/. There are also links to this page through the Lewis Walpole Library's home page. Follow the Digital Collection page's link to Search the Digital Collection. Or from Yale University Library's front page , click on Digital Collections and follow the links to the Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection.
It is also possible to search the Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection as part of a cross-collection search that includes materials from a number of digital collections including the Visual Resources collection, the Beinecke digital collection, the Arts of the Book collection, photonegatives, and Marinetti Libroni. You can search for a call number directly, if you know it. For example search on 776.1.26.1
This search results in the specific image that bears that call number
Browsing by year—the truncated call number search All call numbers reflect the date of a work. In the example above, the call number of 776.1.26.1 reflects the fact that it was published January 26, 1776. To see all the digitized images from a particular year, truncate the call number. For example, to search for all the prints from 1776 that have been digitized, enter “776” in the Call Number Query box and click “Go”
This search results in four pages of images, starting with
Enter keywords from the title or artist's name. If you wanted to see if there were any images with America or American in the title, you would do a Keyword search for “America American” with the “Any” button selected like this
This search results in two pages of images with America or American in the title, beginning with
Searching for images about a particular topic or including a particular motif—look elsewhere Remember, Keyword searching on the Digital Collection will not show you all the prints about a particular topic or including a particular motif, just the ones with the word in the title. If you enter a wide variety of related words and click on “Any” you may get a lot of the material, much of which is relevant, but the results will still only be for words in the title. The best way to identify prints about a particular topic or motif remains for now to come to the Library in Farmington and search the card index. Another idea is to look in the later volumes of the Catalogue of Personal and Political Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (London: British Museum Publications, 1978) by Frederick George Stephens and Mary Dorothy George. These have subject indexes, and you can look up the titles of the relevant prints and then search the Digital Collection to see if the Lewis Walpole Library has them, although this is something of a shot in the dark and will miss all the prints we have that aren't in the British Museum catalog. Another way to search for graphic materials about a particular topic or including a particular motif is to search in Orbis, available at http://www.library.yale.edu/ . This is increasingly the method of preference as the body of graphic material cataloged in Orbis grows, and the Library has prepared a separate, more detailed guide to searching for this material. Very briefly, to search Orbis for graphic materials in the collection do the following: First, in Orbis, at the lower right of the search screen click on the box that says “More Limits”. Set search limits to “Collection: Lewis Walpole Library” and “Medium: Non-projected Graphic”
Click the box that says “Set Limits”. This returns you to the Simple Search screen. Click on the Tab that says “Advanced Search.” Then perform an Advanced Keyword Search by entering keywords and the word graphic. Advanced keyword searching in Orbis : If, for example, you wanted to search for graphic materials about or showing America or things American, enter “America” in one box, select the “or” button, enter “American” in the next box, leave the next button at “and” and enter “graphic” in the last box. Click “Search”.
This search results in records for eleven images that have America or American somewhere in the record. (Notice that only two of those have either word in the title).
One of the eleven results is for a print entitled “Female Combatants.” Search by title in the Digital Collection To look for “Female Combatants” in the Digital Collection, enter the title words and keep the selection on “All”
The search results in the exact image in which you are interested
Difference between “any” and “all” in keyword Had you clicked on “Any”, the search would have pulled up prints with either “female” or “combatants” in the title, and the search would have resulted in two pages of images, beginning with this
Scrolling down shows the one entitled “The Female Combatants” at the bottom of the first page
At the top of the page there is explanatory text that reads “Click an image to see the full catalog record. Use 4x and 8x buttons to display larger images. The highest image resolution available is the wavelet. Viewing the wavelet requires the Mr. Sid Browser Plug-in from Lizard Technologies. Click ‘Save' to build a group for ordering or saving.” Clicking on the image directly results in
Scroll down to see the rest of the image
If you scroll down, you will see below the image the three other choices for viewing: 4x Zoom, 8x Zoom, and Wavelet. Clicking on the 4x zoom button gives you a new window that looks like this
8x zoom looks very similar to the 4x at first, but clicking on the image zooms in and results in a close-up
This view will not all print on one page. The 8x zoom is the best size to save to a file for insertion into a Word or Powerpoint document. The wavelet enables you to drill down and view the image ay very high magnification as well as to print these magnified portions or the entire picture. To view a wavelet, you must download the “Mr. Sid Browser Plug-in” (now called Express View Browser Plug-In), a free download from Lizard Technologies. A link to the download site is available at the top of the page.
The wavelet is not supported by all browsers, but works well in Internet Explorer. Clicking on the wavelet results in an image in a new window
Maximize the window and click on the magnifying glass icon with the + inside to zoom in
You can click on the part of the image you want to see more closely and read details
Clicking repeatedly zooms in more and more closely
There are other tools on the toolbar that enable you to zoom out, select areas to zoom in on, pan, restore the image to full size, print all or part, see image properties, etc. Clicking on Reference Print from the results view will give you a small image that includes the data. The 4x Zoom is the best size to use if you want a study print where the whole image fits on one page and is big enough to see well. Click on the 4x Zoom. From this view, hit <ctrl-P> to get the print dialog box, check in layout that the orientation of the paper matches that of the print (portrait=vertical, landscape=horizontal), and Print. Working with the images—"my group" You can select images to create a group that you can then save and refer back to later. There are a number of things you can do with the "my group" feature, including emailing the group, saving the group as an html file, creating a slide show, or ordering high-quality tiffs of the images. save in a number of ways. Click “Save” over the image(s) that you want to save
Click on “my group” at the top of the page to see what you saved
You can do new searches and save selections from them to your group, too, just by clicking on the button at the top of the screen that says “New search”, performing the search, and adding the selections to your group as before. Click on “my group” to view the group you've created
You can remove any image from your group by clicking “remove.” Click on “make page” to see three choices of how you can save the group. You can email the group to yourself, create an html page, or create a slide show html page.
Fill in the box for the format that best suits your needs and click “Submit”. If you fill in the box with your email address and click Submit, the email you receive reads:
Clicking on the link results in your group appearing in your browser, with partial metadata and links to the enlarged views
Title the page and click Submit. The page you create looks just like the image above that you get from clicking on the emailed attachment. You can save this page onto disk. Title the slide show (in the example below, it is called “America and Britain in Prints”) and click Submit. The first page shows the title and an image of the Lewis Walpole Library. Subsequent pages show each print with its title:
You can order tiffs by clicking Order and making selections on the order screen and clicking Submit
The Library will contact you via email about filling your order and making arrangements for payment, etc. Details about the Library's photoduplication services, policies, and price schedule are available on the web. The Library's statement on permission is as follows: Permission to Publish. Provision of a photoduplicate is not an authorization to publish. The Library cannot grant or deny permission to publish texts or images unless Yale University is identified as the copyright holder. If the text or image in question is under copyright, permission to publish should be sought from the owners of the rights, typically the creator or the heirs to his or her estate. The Lewis Walpole Library should, however, be cited as the source with the following credit line: " Courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University ." |
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