Jenna Rinalducci

Liaison Librarian

jrinaldu@gmu.edu or 703-993-3720

http://infoguides.gmu.edu/art

http://gmutant.gmu.edu/arted

AVT 494: Teaching Critical Responses to Art

›Overview of library resources

›Research Process/Search Strategies

›Search Examples

›Questions

Today

›Art InfoGuide:

http://infoguides.gmu.edu/art

›Art Education Research Portal:

http://gmutant.gmu.edu/arted

Guides Created Just for You!

http://library.gmu.edu

› Catalog: books, e-books, DVDs, CDs

› Washington Research Library Consortium

(WRLC)

› InfoGuides & Research Portals

› Research Databases

Library Resources

›Art Full Text›Art & Architecture Complete›ProQuest Arts Databases

› Art Bibliographies Modern› Design & Applied Arts Index (DAAI)› International Bibliography of Art› Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Research Databases

› JSTOR

› Humanities International Complete

› Academic Search Complete

› ERIC

› Education Research Complete

› Education Full Text

› ARTstor

› Art Museum Image Gallery

› Oxford Art Online

Even More Databases

The Research Process (practically speaking)

1. Pick a topic

2.

3.

4.

5.

6. Write the paper/Create the project

2. Where to search

(databases)

3. How to search

(keywords)

4. How to get it (find the

article)

5. Is what I’ve got any

good?

Search Strategies/#SearchTerms

› Keywords:– Simplest search

– Looks for book/articles that match the words typed, not always the ideas represented

› Subjects:– More refined results

– Looks for book/article that match your topic

– Standardized terms

– Often active links

› Keyword: Mary Cassatt VS Subject Heading: Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926› Keyword: Shroud of Turin VS Subject Heading: Holy Shroud

Searching

Example:

John F. Kennedy, 1963Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989)Oil on canvas262.9 x 115.6 x 6.4cmNational Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Brainstorm› John F. Kennedy OR John Fitzgerald Kennedy OR Jack

Kennedy OR JFK

› Elaine de Kooning OR De Kooning, Elaine

› Women artists

› Oil on canvas OR Oil painting

› Presidential OR President or President of the United States

› Portrait OR Portraiture

› Nineteen sixties OR Sixties OR 1960s OR 196*

› Washington, D.C. OR Massachusetts

Example:

Juliette Gordon Low, 1887

Edward Hughes

Oil on canvas

167 x 130.8 x 10.2cm

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Brainstorm

› Juliette Gordon Low OR Low, Juliette Gordon

› Edward Hughes OR Hughes, Edward

› Oil on canvas OR Oil painting

› Girl Scouts OR Girl Scouts of the United States of America

› Portrait painting OR Portraiture

› William Mackay Low (who commissioned the painting)

› Nineteenth century

› Savannah, Georgia

Questions?› Liaison Librarian: Jenna Rinalducci

– jrinaldu@gmu.edu

– 703-993-3720

› Stop by/Call the Reference Desk

› Ask-a-Librarian: IM, Email, etc. (http://library.gmu.edu/ask

)

› Guides (http://infoguides.gmu.edu/art & http://

gmutant.gmu.edu/arted)

› Make a research appointment