New Online Quilt Image Database

[Carolyn K Ducey <cducey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Marin Hanson, Curator of Collections
International Quilt Study Center
402-472-6301; mhanson4@xxxxxxx


International Quilt Study Center Launches
Online Image Database & New Website

The International Quilt Study Center is pleased to announce the launch of
its new online image database that allows anyone, anytime, anywhere to
search its extensive quilt collections.

Online audiences are now able to go to the IQSC website and link directly
to the database of more than 1200 quilts, viewing detailed information
about each quilt as well as full-color images. Searching capabilities
include searching by pattern name, quiltmaker, location of origin, date,
and predominant technique, among others. For those who are unable to attend
one of the IQSC's many local and traveling quilt exhibitions, users are
also able to search the database by exhibition name, creating a virtual
quilt gallery on their computer screen. Another highlight is the ability to
search by collection name; for instance, viewing all of the quilts in the
930-piece Ardis and Robert James Collection, the 156-piece Robert and Helen
Cargo African-American Quilt Collection, or the 90-piece Sara Miller Amish
Crib Quilt Collection. The IQSC also looks forward to adding the
newly-acquired 400-piece Jonathan Holstein Quilt Collection to the database
in the coming year.

In conjunction with the online database, the IQSC has also introduced a
newly redesigned website. It features an updated look and new information,
as well as old favorites such as the Quilt of the Month program, an e-mail
subscription service for keeping in touch with the IQSC's collections,
exhibitions and public events. The new website retains the IQSC's current
web address: http://quiltstudy.unl.edu


Carolyn Ducey
Acting Director & Curator
International Quilt Study Center
HE 234, Univ. of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE  68583-0838
402/472-6301