Library Tours & Tutorials
Welcome to the Academy of Art Library online tour experience! There’s a self-paced, slideshow tour of the library collections and equipment, a video tutorial the demonstrates how to use the Proquest database to find magazine articles, an MLA citation guide, and more. The online tour resources make it easy for students to learn about the library anytime, anywhere!
Coming soon… Library website tutorial and more database tutorials!
Online Library Tour
This is a self-paced, slideshow tour that will “walk” you around the library, pointing out and explaining the library collections, resources and equipment.
Basic Proquest Tutorial
This tutorial will guide you through a basic search in Proquest and teach you about some of the helpful features of the database. Proquest is used to search for magazine and newspaper articles on a wide range of different topics.
LUNA Tutorials
This 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.
MLA Citation Guide
This guide will show you how to properly create your Works Cited Page when you are writing a research paper.
Additional Guides & Tutorials
Master Drawing Search Guide
"Master drawings" are drawings that exemplify superb draftsmanship by important artists since the Renaissance. This page will help you search the Academy of Art University Digital Image Collection for master drawings images.
Tips and Tricks for Accessing WWD
WWD is now working. This page will show you how to connect to WWD.
PowerPoint Guide (PDF)
This PDF document will help introduce you to using PowerPoint for making Image-based presentations.
Image Resolution and PowerPoint - YouTube video
This video will give you some tips on image resolution, so that your PowerPoint presentations will load faster.
How to disable Your Pop-Up Blocker
Information on turning off pop-up blockers (in your web browser) - this is required to view some of the Digital Image Collections
