Finding
Books
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.
- Books on crafts, photography and the technology relating to
art are located in the T's in the Reference
area and General Collection.
- Most books about education and teaching are located in the
General Collection area under the call number beginning with
the letter L . The Young
Peoples Collection of children's literature and the Curriculum
Library of teaching resources are located on the lower
level.
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, sculpture, drawing, etc.
- nationality/culture: art, buddhist, art, german;
painting, american, etc.
- genre: landscape painting; portrait painting, etc.
- movement: impressionism, expressionism, futurism, surrealism,
etc.
- theory: modernism, feminism, marxism, etc
- useful terms for education are: education, study and teaching,
curriculum, and the specific grade level (kindergarten,
elementary, fifth grade, high school, etc.)
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 following resources
to find images on the Web
- Artcyclopedia - online
directory of museum art on the Web. Retrieve a list of links
to photographs of artists works at museums worldwide - Search
by:
- Movement (e.g. Pop Art, Impressionism) by
- Medium (e.g. sculptors, illustrators)
- Subject (e.g. landscape painters)
- Nationality
- Name, alphabetically
- World
Art Kiosk - 30,000 images from Cal State University
- Grove Dictionary
of Art - 10,000 links to color images. Use your WSU student
ID number, 88... for off-campus access.
- AICT (Art Images
for College Teaching) - image exchange resource for the educational
community
- Google Image Search
- Use this popular search engine to find publicly available Web
images on any subject.
- Corbis - Large collection
of popular/commercial photographic images.
Using
Reference Resources
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.
- ArtLex - an online dictionary
of art terminology
- Dictionary of Art (Great resource! 34 volumes) - Stewart
Library, REF N31.D5 1996 Reference table 3A
- Encyclopedia of World Art - Stewart Library, REF N31.E533
- Encyclopedia of American Education - REF LB
17 .U54 2001
-
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 Dictionary
of Art - Start your research here with 41,000 articles, 720,000
index entries and 10,000 links to color images. Use
your WSU login for off-campus access. Limited to 6 simultaneous
UALC users.
- Metropolitan
Museum of Art Timeline of Art History - Excellent comprehensive
timeline with maps and illustrations.
- National Center for Education
Statistics - Primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing
data relating to education.
Finding
Articles
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 for articles on art! 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--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.
- Education
Full Text - Education database covering preschool,
elementary, secondary & higher education, special/vocational
education, adult/continuing education, computer technology,
evaluation & methods. Selected full text articles. 1994-present.
- 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.
- ERIC - Some free fulltext.
1992 to present. This database is available to anyone, anywhere.
ERIC Digests are a full text subset of ERIC. Short reports
(1,000 to 1,500 words) on topics of current interest in
education, specifically for teachers, administrators,
policymakers, and other practitioners, but generally useful
to the broad educational community.
- PsycINFO
- Comprehensive index to scholarly literature in psychology
and related fields. 1887-Present. Guide
- 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 Main level. Bound volumes of older
issues are found upstairs in the periodicals stacks. Selected
titles include:
| American Artist |
N1.A512 |
| Art Bulletin |
N1.A782 |
| ArtForum |
N1.A786 |
| Art News |
N1.A785 |
| Aperture |
TR1.A641 |
| Studies in Art Education |
N1.S932 |
Web
Resources
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 categories for selected lists of sites on
artists, museums, art mediums, styles, periods, etc.
Meta Sites
- Artcyclopedia - online
directory of museum art on the Web
- Artchive
- 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.
Arts Education Web
Sites
Selected Museum Sites
Media
Research
Tips
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