Using Catalogs
Use the WSU Stewart
Library Catalog to find location and availability of books
and other media in Stewart Library. Use WorldCat
for listings of exhibition catalogs, books and media
in many other library catalogs. For
home or off campus access please use your WSU Login.
- Books on the visual arts are generally located within
the call number N in the Reference area and General Collection.
Art in China is found in N7000.
- Books on crafts, photography and the technology relating to
art are located in the T's in the Reference area and General
Collection.
Subject Searching
in Catalogs and Databases
Using keywords of your
choosing or Library of Congress Subject Headings, it may
be helpful to search by:
- artist's name: Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, etc.
- artistic style: impressionism, gothic, etc.
- time period: art, modern--20th century
or art, baroque--Italy, etc.
- artistic medium: painting, China; ceramics, China etc.
- nationality/culture: art, buddhist; art, Chinese;
art, China,
- genre: landscape painting; portrait painting, etc.
- movement: impressionism, expressionism, futurism, surrealism,
etc.
- theory: modernism, feminism, marxism, etc
Also note: Exhibition
Catalogs are often cataloged by artist, subject, and museum or
gallery and Museum Catalogs are usually cataloged by the name
of the museum.
From Bookstores
Order books online
from Amazon Books or Barnes and Noble. Also use Books
in Print for book sources and some book reviews as needed.
Interlibrary Loan
If we do not own a particular
book or article you need, we will borrow it for you from another
library through Interlibrary
Loan.
Finding
Images
Use the library catalog
to find images in books. The library has some larger art posters
and reproductions in the Curriculum Picture Collection in the
library's lower level.
Use the following resources
to find images on the Web
Reference resources
include encyclopedias, dictionaries and other materials used to
"refer" to. Use these resources for facts, definitions
or for background information on a topic. For
home or off campus access please use your WSU Login.
- Art in China - Stewart Library, REFERENCE N7340
.C59 1997
- Art: A world History - Stewart Library, REFERENCE
N5300 .A69513 1998
- ArtLex - an online dictionary
of art terminology - http://www.artlex.com/
- Dictionary of Art (Great resource! 34 volumes) - Stewart
Library, REFERENCE N31.D5 1996 - Reference table 3A
- Encyclopedia of World Art - Stewart Library, REFERENCE
N31.E533
-
Getty
Vocabulary Databases - The Getty Research Institute's
Vocabulary Databases (the Art & Architecture Thesaurus
®, the Union List of Artist Names ®, and the Getty
Thesaurus of Geographic Names) contain terminology and
other information about the visual arts, architecture, artists,
and geographic places.
- Grove
Art Online - Start your research here with 41,000 articles,
720,000 index entries and 10,000 links to color images. Use
your WSU student ID number for off-campus access. Limited
to 6 simultaneous UALC users.
- A Handbook of Chinese Art - Stewart Library,
REFERENCE N7340.M4 1974
- International Encyclopedia of Art: Far Eastern Art -
Stewart Library, REFERENCE N6504 .I87 1996 V.8
- Metropolitan
Museum of Art Timeline of Art History - Excellent
comprehensive timeline with maps and illustrations.
Article Databases
To find articles on
your topic you need to use article databases, also known as periodical
indexes. Each database usually covers a group of subject related
journals. Search by subject or keyword in these indexes. For
home or off campus access please use your WSU Login.
- Art Full Text
- Use this First! Abstracts from 1994,
full text from 1997 covering: Archaeology, Architecture, Art
History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion
Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior
Design, Landscape, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art,
Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles,
and Video. Limited to 12 simultaneous UALC users.
- Use the print Art Index to find articles
published from 1929 to 1994 -Reference N1.A7846--Reference Table
3A
-
Bibliography
of the History of Art - The premier international scholarly
reference in art history. Including citations to writings
from 1973 to present, covering visual arts in all media including
traditional fine arts; decorative and applied arts; material
culture; photography and contemporary new media; and visual
arts aspects of performing arts. Includes access to RILA (International
Repertory of the Literature of Art), and RAA Repertoire d'Art
et d'Archeolgie). 1973 to present. Use this to find citations.
Use interlibrary loan to order items.
- ERIC
(EbscoHost)
Provides citation and
abstract information from over 750 educational journals and
related documents from the Educational Resource Information
Center. Selected fulltext. 1967 to present. Updated
quarterly.
- JSTOR
Arts and Sciences III Collection - Focused on the arts and
humanities, the Arts & Sciences III Collection contains
150 titles . The collection makes available additional journals
in language and literature, as well as important titles in the
fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion,
and the history and study of art and architecture.
- Arts & Humanities
Search - Citations from many of the world's leading arts
and humanities journals. 1980 - present, updates weekly.
- Academic Search
Premier - Provides some full text articles in over a thousand
magazines and journals
- Lexis/Nexis Academic
- Full-text coverage of many newspapers from across the US and
around the world.
Newspapers
- Many other newspapers
and broadcast news services are available on the Web.
Browsing Current Periodicals
Current magazines and
journals can be browsed in the Current Periodicals Area, in the
"N" section on the Middle level. Bound volumes of older
issues are found upstairs in the periodicals stacks. Selected
titles include:
Here are some WWW sites
to get you started. Most of these will take you to other links,
so explore! Use the Yahoo and
Google directories
to find appropriate catagories for selected lists of sites on
artists, museums, art mediums, styles, periods, etc.
Meta Sites
Art History Sites
-
Art
History Resource Centre - From Concordia University
in Canada, this site includes newsgroups, mailing lists, library
catalogs, article indexes, online collections, and links on
citing sources.
- Art History
Resources on the Web - Directory of art history resources,
maintained by Chris Witcombe, Sweet Briar College, Virginia. Resources
are subdivided by time period.
Asian Art Sites
- Asian Historical
Architecture - Images of historical architecture in
Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, the two Koreas, Laos,
Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, and Thailand.
-
Asian
Studies WWW Virtual Library
-
Arts
of China Consortium
-
Art
History Resources on the Web: Asian Art: China - compiled
by Chris Witcombe
-
Art
Scene China: Contemporary Chinese Art
-
Asia
Society
-
Huntington
Archive of Buddhist and Related Art
Selected Museum Sites
- Clearly identify your information need
- Identify key words and search terms
to match your topic
- Develop search statements using advanced search techniques
- Boolean logic, adjacency searching and truncation
- Use the Online
catalog to find books
- Use an appropriate article database
to find journal articles. Ask a librarian for help if you're
not sure where to start
- If articles are not fulltext, search Ejournals
to see if the article may be located in another database.
If not, check the Stewart Library
catalog
- Use Interlibrary loan
to get materials that are not in Stewart Library
- Use search
engines to find Web information
- Carefully
evaluate the information you find for usefulness and quality
- Revise your search terms and strategy to expand or narrow your
results, be creative, look in other areas
- Use appropriate style to document and cite research
- Ask for HELP
from Reference staff in person, via email, chat, or telephone.
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