Based on library instruction for the course AVT 494: Teaching Critical Responses to Art.

1. AVT 494:
Teaching Critical Responses
to Art
Jenna Rinalducci
Liaison Librarian
jrinaldu@gmu.edu or 703-993-3720
http://infoguides.gmu.edu/art
http://gmutant.gmu.edu/arted

2. Today
› Overview of library resources
› Research Process/Search Strategies
› Search Examples
› Questions

3. Guides Created Just for You!
› Art InfoGuide:
http://infoguides.gmu.edu/art
› Art Education Research Portal:
http://gmutant.gmu.edu/arted

4. Library Resources
http://library.gmu.edu
› Catalog: books, e-books, DVDs, CDs
› Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC)
› InfoGuides & Research Portals
› Research Databases

5. Research Databases
› 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

6. Even More Databases
› JSTOR
› Humanities International Complete
› Academic Search Complete
› ERIC
› Education Research Complete
› Education Full Text
› ARTstor
› Art Museum Image Gallery
› Oxford Art Online

7. The Research Process (practically
speaking)
1. Pick a topic
2.
2. Where to search (databases)
3.
3. How to search (keywords)
4.
4. How to get it (find the article)
5.
5. Is what I’ve got any good?
6. Write the paper/Create the project

8. Search Strategies/#SearchTerms

9. Searching
› 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

10. Example:
John F. Kennedy, 1963
Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989)
Oil on canvas
262.9 x 115.6 x 6.4cm
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

11. 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

12. Example:
Juliette Gordon Low, 1887
Edward Hughes
Oil on canvas
167 x 130.8 x 10.2cm
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

13. 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

14. 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