Global Studies 422

GLOBAL STUDIES 422 Worlds of Art

FINDING BACKGROUND INFORMATION

The reference collection is a good place to begin looking for information, especially if  you don’t know much about your topic and need a place to start,  need help choosing a topic (or broadening it or narrowing it down), or  need some suggestions for further reading. The following titles, which are all located in the reference section and listed in call number order, may help you with background information or an overview of your topic on art in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. All of these works contain articles on some aspect of art or biographical information on artists.

New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, 2005. REF/CB/9/.N49 Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, 2002. REF/DS/4/.L48/2002 Encyclopedia of Asian History, 2988. REF/DS/31/E53/1988 Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, 1995. REF/DS/35.53/.O95/1994 Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, 2004. REF/DS/43/.E53/2004 Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, 1995. REF/DS/57/.C55 Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh…, 1989. REF/DS/334.9/.C36 Encyclopedia of China, 1999. REF/DS/705/.P47 Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan, 1993. REF/DS/805/.C36] New Encyclopedia of Africa, 2008. REF/DT/2/.N48/2008 Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African…Experience, 2005. REF/DT/14/.A37435 Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, 2001. REF/DT/58/.O94 The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia, 2000. REF/DU/17/.P3/2000 Cambridge Encyclopedia of Australia, 1994. REF/DU/90/.C364/1994 Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, 2001. REF/F/1218.6/.O95/2001 Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin and Caribbean Cultures, 2000. REF/F/1406/.E515/2000 Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, 1996. REF/F/1406/.E53 Grove Dictionary of Art, 1996. REF/N/31/.D5/1996. Also online under Oxford Art Online. Encyclopedia of World Art, 1959. REF/N/31/.E533 Adeline Art Dictionary, 1966. REF/N/33/.A223 Oxford Companion to Art, 1970. REF/N/33/.O9 Oxford Dictionary of Art, 1988. REF/N/33/.O93 Understanding Art: Themes, Techniques and Methods, 1981. REF/N/5300/.R24 LaRousse Encyclopedia of Prehistoric and Ancient Art, 1957. REF/N/5300/.H953 Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Art, 2000. REF/N/6502/.E53 Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, 2000. REF/NX/590/.A1/O94/2000 Credo Reference. Online Oxford Reference Online Many art reference books are in these two databases. Pelican History of Art Series Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt, 1958. REF/N/5350/.S5 Art and Architecture of Ancient America, 1962. REF/N/5602/.K8 Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient, 1955. REF/N/7260/.F8 Art and Architecture of China, 1956. REF/N/7340/.S86 Art and Architecture of Japan, 1955. REF/N/7350/.P3 FINDING INFORMATION IN THE CATALOG

You can look for materials in the catalog by author, title, subject headings or keywords. There are four libraries in the Holston Associated group (E&H, King College, Tazewell Co. Public Library, and Washington Co. Public Library. Since this group is known as Holston Associated Libraries, you may hear the catalog referred to as HAL . The online catalog has some powerful searching features, such as limiting your search to location, language, etc. You may access the library’s catalog by going to the library web page (www.library.ehc.edu). Clicking on the third button down brings you to the catalog. You can borrow materials from these libraries with your student ID, or you can request items through interlibrary loan.

If you don’t have any specific topics in mind, the following subject headings may be helpful. Remember, art is a huge topic, and the following list is very selective. If you are not finding what you need in the catalog, please ask the librarian on reference duty for assistance.

ARCHITECTURE—AFRICA ART, KOREAN ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT ART—LATIN AMERICA ARCHITECTURE—CHINA ART, MEXICAN ARCHITECTURE—EGYPT ART—MIDDLE EAST ARCHITECTURE, ISLAMIC ART, MODERN—20TH CENT.—AFRICA ARCHITECTURE—JAPAN ART, MODERN—20TH CENT.—LATIN AMERICA ART—AFRICA ART OBJECTS, EGYPTIAN ART, ANCIENT ART OBJECTS, INDIA ART, ANCIENT—EGYPT ART OBJECTS—MEXICO ART, ANCIENT—MIDDLE EAST ART, ORIENTAL ART—ASIA ART, PREHISTORIC—AUSTRALIA ART, AUSTRALIAN ART, PRIMITIVE ART—CHINA—HISTORY ETHNIC ART ART—COLONIAL—LATIN AMERICA FOLK ART ART, EGYPTIAN INDIAN ART ART, INDIC INDIAIN ART—CENTRAL AMERICA ART, IRANIAN INDIAN ART—NORTH AMERICA ART—IRAQ INDIAN ART—SOUTH AMERICA ART, ISLAMIC MAYA ARCHITECTURE ART—JAPAN MAYA ART

This is just a list to get you started. You can do subject searches on names of continents or countries, such as AFRICA—ART, personal names (RIVERA, DIEGO) or type of art (BRONZES). There are hundreds of art-related terms you can search in the catalog. Do not hesitate to ask the library staff for help.

FINDING INFORMATION IN THE DATABASES

Kelly Library subscribes to several online full-text and partially full-text databases that would be helpful in locating material for your research assignments in this class. You may access them from the library web page (www.library.ehc.edu) by clicking on Online Databases (the second button) and then on the A-Z list. To access these databases from off-campus, see the following section.

ARTstor A digital image library. There is a separate guide for this database. Biography Resource Center Biography Reference Bank Select BRC and BRBS are two sources of full-text biographical information. Academic Search Complete Humanities International Complete (from the same vendor, same interface) may be helpful too. You can see my search on sculpture and Nigeria, and the list of over 50 hits it produced. Many of the citations are full-text. You can also see ways to tailor your search in the columns on the left and right. On the left, you can sort your search by type of document (academic journals, etc.) and see some suggested additional headings to search in the thesaurus. On the right, you can sort your search by peer-reviewed journals, or date range.

General OneFile Academic Search Complete, General OneFile and OmniFile are partially full-text, multi-subject, popular and scholarly content databases. See the examples from General OneFile and OmniFile on the below and on the next page. The search in General OneFile is on the moais of Easter Island. JSTOR An almost 100% full-text database of about 500 scholarly journals. Although there is a time lag or “moving wall” of 2-5 years, the database goes back to volume 1, issue 1 for each journal. See the sample search on textile arts and Japan and Japanese artists.

OmniFile The search here is on Oriental rugs. Interesting fact: if you limit it to peer reviewed, the list shrinks from over 130 citations to three. Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove Dictionary of Art) The online version of the well-known reference work.

Project Muse PM is a full-text database that consists of over 100 journals from the Johns Hopkins University Press and other academic publishers. Depending on your topic, this full-text database may be useful.

World Catalog It is not full-text database, but it is a bibliographic database of millions of records of books and other materials. If you discover there are gaps in the collection and cannot find material in the library catalog, this would be a good place to identify titles on a subject and request them through interlibrary loan. The search below is on Iran and architecture. If Kelly Library owns any of the items in the results list, it will show in the citation. In this case, Kelly Library does not own the first three titles. So, if you were writing a paper on this subject, you might want to request the items through interlibrary loan. Although newspaper articles are not “scholarly,” they can be a good source of art information. In particular, The New York Times has substantial art coverage. Kelly Library has the New York Times on microfilm from 1940 to the present, and it is available online in the database Factiva from 1980 to the present. Some other large-city paper (Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C., for example) have art coverage as well. Besides Factiva, you can find many full-text newspaper articles in America’s Newspapers, Lexis Nexis, and Newspaper Source Plus. All of these links are on the A – Z list.

REMOTE ACCESS

You can access all of these databases from off campus. To find directions on how to do this, go to the A-Z list, Subject Resources or Newspapers links. You will see Off Campus Access Instructions under all three links. Basically, all you need to do is type the library home page address (www.library.ehc.edu), and then click on the A-Z list. The first database you select will cause a login box to appear. Enter your user name and password, just as if you were logging on to a computer in the library or one of the labs. If you are having difficulty with off-campus access, please let one of the reference librarians know.

So What If the Citation You Are Looking At Is Not Full-Text?

What do you do if the citation you are looking at in a database—Academic Search Complete, for example— is not full-text in that database? You need to search the Full-Text E-Journal s list (links are on the main library page, the A – Z list , the Subject Resources page, or the Newspapers tab). In the screen shot above on p. 3 from ASC, , there is a citation (out of view) for an article, “Arts, Briefly: A Benin Bronze,” from the May 18 2007 issue of the New York Times. It is not full-text in ASC. How do you find it? Go to the Full- Text E-Journals list, and enter the title of the periodical. As you see below, you can find that NYT article full-text in six different periodical databases. Go to one of them, type in the article title, and you should be able to pull up “Arts, Briefly.” INTERLIBRARY LOAN

Although Kelly Library has a large collection of periodicals, art books and full-text databases, you will find citations to materials this library does not own. The library staff will try to borrow these items for you through the interlibrary loan process. There is no charge for the first 50 items requested during the academic year. Please carefully choose items to request and double-check the Full-Text E-Journals list and the online catalog to be sure that Kelly Library does not already own the material. Also, the library staff asks that you do not submit more than 10 requests for returnable material at one time. You should allow 5-7 days for your requests to arrive.

To request items through interlibrary loan, you will need to register (one time only) on ILLiad, our online ordering system. The interlibrary loan link is under Library Services, the fifth button on the library web page. If you need help registering or ordering, please ask a library staff member for assistance.

DOCUMENTATION

Whenever you quote an author’s exact words or paraphrase his or her unique ideas, you must credit that source to avoid plagiarism. Academic fields have various documentation systems to credit the authors, such as the MLA, APA or Chicago styles. For this class, you will use the format set forth in Sylvan Barnet’s A Short Guide to Writing about Art. It is on permanent reserve at the Circulation Desk.

INTERNET RESOURCES

Barnet’s A Short Guide to Writing about Art has some good suggestions for reputable art sites on the Internet. You might also wish to try Google Scholar (scholar.google.com) or Librarians’ Internet Index (www.lii.org). As always, apply good judgment and be critical of web sites that are not signed or attributed to an organization, reach undocumented conclusions, have lots of typographical errors or have not been recently updated.

Remember: If you need help using or locating any of the materials mentioned in this handout, please ask a reference librarian (Jane Caldwell, Patty Greany, Jody Hanshew and Janet Kirby) or circulation staff member (David Baber, David Lyons, Pat Maiden, Juanita Ratliff, Shelby Smith, Sara Beth White and Tonya White) for assistance. If that person cannot help you, he or she will direct you to someone who can.

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