Art Survey

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Art Survey

• Informational Resources
• Research Techniques

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Keywords

• Flexible terminology
• Easier to do searches
• Less accurate

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Keyword Phrases

• Single concept, multiple words
• Some electronic resources require keyword phrases
  be enclosed with punctuation
• Quotation marks
• Parenthesis

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Keyword Phrases

• Basic phrase
• Proper names
• Hyphenated words
• Book titles, painting titles, etc.

• (high renaissance)
• Jackson Pollock
• (post-impressionism)
• Mona Lisa

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Boolean Operators

• Boolean Operators connect keywords only
• Must be placed between keywords
• AND
• Narrows your search
• OR
• Expands your search with synonymous terms
• NOT
• Excludes words from your search
• If used too much, it can work against you!

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Boolean Operators

• AND
• painting and watercolor
• Cézanne and portrait and post-impressionism

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Boolean Operators

• OR
• watercolor or watercolour
• portrait or portraiture
• AND OR together
• watercolor or watercolour and painting
• portrait or portraiture and Cézanne and
  post-impressionism

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Boolean Operators

• NOT
• painting not house
• portraiture not photography
• AND, OR NOT together
• acrylic and painting not house or household

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Informational Resources

• Reference Collection (700-779)
• Atlas of World Art
• Contemporary Women Artists
• Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape
  Architecture
• Dictionary of Art
• Dictionary of Symbols in Western Art
• Encyclopedia of Artists
• Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography
• Encyclopedia of Italian Renaissance Mannerist
  Art
• Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
• Photography Encyclopedia

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Informational Sources

• Articles
• Academic Search Premier
• MasterFILE Premier
• Issues and Controversies
• Lexis Nexis Academic (New York Times)
• Art Index (1929-2005)
• Periodicals List
• Search by subject fine arts to browse our titles

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Online Resources

• Art History Resources on the Web
• http//witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
• ArtDaily.org
• http//www.artdaily.com/index.asp
• Artquotes.net
• http//www.artquotes.net
• Mark Hardens Artchive
• http//www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm
• Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
• http//library.moma.org

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Online Resources

• NYPL Digital Gallery
• http//digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.c
  fm
• Orazio Centaros Art Images on the Web
• http//www.ocaiw.com
• Timeline of Art History
• www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
• Artcyclopedia Fine Art Search Engine
• http//www.artcyclopedia.com/index.html
• CUL Digital Collections
• http//www.library.cornell.edu/about/
  digital_collections.html

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Online Resources

• Photoswest (Denver Public Library)
• http//history.denverlibrary.org/images/index.html
  
• American Memory
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
• Smithsonian Institution
• http//www.si.edu/
• Digital Imaging Project
• http//www.bluffton.edu/sullivanm/
• ArteLatina.com
• http//www.artelatina.com/

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Online Resources

• World Wide Arts Resources
• http//wwar.com/
• Art on the Web
• http//www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/Artweb.html
  
• Chicano Art Digital Image Collection
• http//cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/digitalArchives.ht
  ml
• National Gallery of Art
• http//www.nga.gov/home.htm

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Google

• Search by file type
• For example .pdf statistics
• Search by domain
• For example .edu poetry
• See Google handout for more ways to search

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RSS Feeds

• Gather information from across the Web and bring
  it to you
• Library databases are now incorporating RSS feeds
  into their products, check here for more
  information.

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RSS Feeds - Services

• Google Reader
• NewsGator
• FeedReader
• SharpReader

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Tagging

• A tag is a keyword associated with a piece of
  information (e.g., a picture, map, blog entry,
  video clip, etc.), describing the item for a
  keyword-based classification system with
  searchable functionality (like a bookmark).
• YouTube includes tags, the concept of tagging is
  a referral to what libraries have been doing
  years before the Internet went public (concept of
  subject searching)

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Tagging - Services

• del.icio.us
• Digg
• Reddit
• Google Bookmarks
• PeerClip (for physicians)

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Groundbreaking Sites

• Powerhouse Museum Collection
• AskArt
• Art Education 2.0
• Art Teachers Guide to the Internet