Award-Winning InfosmART Portfolio Released by Glasgow School of Art Library
Glasgow,
April 2012
The
Glasgow School of Art Library’s award-winning InfosmART portfolio is now freely
available to the UK’s art and design communities, following Innovation and
Development funding from the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC)
InfosmART
is the Glasgow School of Art Library’s portfolio of online interactive modules
in information and research skills, specifically designed for creative
practitioners. It has been produced for the learning, teaching and research
communities in art, design and architecture, and helps artists and designers to
develop and improve their research capabilities and information handling, at
either undergraduate, postgraduate or research levels. It does this through an
easy-to-follow 5-step programme: Define, Find, Evaluate, Cite and Use.
In
2010, InfosmART was recognised at the Times Higher Education Leadership and
Management Awards, where its development team was named Outstanding Library
Team of the Year. In 2011, its lead developer was named Information
Literacy Practitioner of the Year for his work on the resource.
InfosmART was developed in-house
by the Library of Glasgow School of Art, which is internationally recognised as one of Europe's foremost
higher education institutions for creative education and research in fine art,
design and architecture. It is one of only three Small Specialist Institutions
within Scotland, with undergraduate, taught postgraduate, and research
programmes delivered across architecture, fine art, design, and digital design.
The Library forms part of Learning Resources, which also includes e-learning,
archives, and collections.
InfosmART
has now been released for free non-commercial use and adaptation under Creative
Commons licensing at http://www2.gsa.ac.uk/library/infosmart