Library Tutorials

The Online Library Tour is a self-paced, slideshow that guides you through the library and introduces the library's collections, resources and equipment.

This guide will help you get started on your library research, including how to find and evaluate information sources.

Digital Tutors provides access to over 12,000 videos for over 30 software applications including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Maya, RenderMan, and many more. This page provides information on how to get signed up with Digital Tutors and answers questions you may have about the resource.

Ebrary is an Online Resource that allows you to browse, search, and read over 2,800 full text electronic books in the arts and humanities. This page highlights some of the features that ebrary offers and answers questions you may have about ebrary.

This page will show you how to connect to Mintel, an online market research resource.

The Music Library is hosted by the Online Academy. This page will show you how to access and search for music files.

ProQuest Help provides Basic and Advanced Search Tips, information on searching Data and Reports, saving articles, and more.

EBSCO Help provides information on how to use the EBSCO resources, including searching for articles, saving articles, translation capabilities, and more. EBSCO includes Art Source, OmniFile Full Text Select, and Cinema Image Gallery.

• EBSCO Basic Search Video Tutorial (3 min) (YouTube)
• EBSCO Advanced Search Video Tutorial (3 min) (YouTube)
• EBSCO Visual Search Tutorial (5 min) (YouTube)

This page will show you how to connect to WWD.

WGSN only requires that you enter your FULL NAME and STUDENT or FACULTY ID. The link to WGSN can be found here.

This infographic, created by Hack College, is a great way to learn how to get more out of your Google searches.

The LUNA Tutorials page will provide you with links to videos on using the LUNA image database. These tutorials will help you search for images, create media groups, and create presentations.

At this time, images exported from LUNA do not include the accompanying metadata. Just like a library book catalog record, this metadata provides the information necessary for identification and citation of an image.
This guide outlines recommended methods for local fixes to enable you to save image metadata so you will be able to quickly and easily access this information later for your research and studies.

The LUNA digital image database contains hundreds of examples of historical fashion and costume images by painters, sculptors, jewelry makers, craftspeople, and fashion designers. This page will help you search LUNA for historical fashion images.

Master drawings are drawings that exemplify superb draftsmanship by important artists since the Renaissance. This page will help you search LUNA for master drawings images.

The LUNA digital image database contains hundreds of examples of early photographs by pioneering and innovative photographers. These images directly support the Academy of Art University photography curriculum and specifically the PH 101: Photo History and Concepts core course. This page will help you search LUNA for photographs.

Students at the Academy of Art University (AAU) follow the Modern Language Association (MLA) format for research papers. This guide will show you how to properly create your Works Cited Page when you are writing a research paper.

This How-To guide provides explanations and examples for image citation based on the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed., which is available at the AAU Library under the call number LB2369.G53 2009.

This page will show you show you example of how to format in-text citations in your research papers.

Purdue's Writing Lab provides information on formatting your research papers in the MLA style. This page provides sample works cited pages, in-text citations, as well as a sample paper.

Learn about plagiarism and how you can avoid plagiarizing.

Learn how to discern good websites from bad websites when conducting online research.

Learn how to tell if a periodical is a scholarly publication or a popular magazine.

The subject guides were created by Academy of Art University librarians to help students find some of the most valuable resources offered at the library. Each department specific guide contains lists of and links to library books, magazine, article and reference databases, online image collections, videos, MFA thesis projects, website resources, professional organizations, and other resources.

This PDF document will help introduce you to using PowerPoint for making Image-based presentations.

This video will give you some tips on image resolution, so that your PowerPoint presentations will load faster.

Information on turning off pop-up blockers (in your web browser) - this is required to view some of the Digital Image Collections