DART 261 Library Research

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DART 261 Library Research
Melinda Reinhart Visual Arts Librarian melinda.rei
nhart_at_concordia.ca September 2014
Book Cell Octagonal Building Made Entirely from
Books. Moe Beitiks
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Library Resources Outline

• Using Concordia Libraries Other Libraries
• Scholarly Popular Literature
• Finding Journal Articles
• Databases Google Scholar
• Finding Books Holdings of Journals, etc.
• Library Catalogues CLUES Concordia Library
  catalogue
• Preparing your Bibliography
• Citation guides APA, Chicago, and MLA
• RefWorks

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Using Concordia Libraries

• Concordia Libraries includes 2 libraries
• Webster Library Vanier Library
• Can request books from Vanier library in CLUES
• Use MyCLUES on Library web site
• Renew materials online
• Request materials from Vanier, out to a user, or
  newly arrived
• Access online journals and databases from home
• ID card is your library card
• Borrow 30 books for 3 weeks (subject to recall)

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Using Other Libraries

• Get BCI card at the Circulation Desk to borrow at
  other university libraries
• Use the Interlibrary Loans service to request
  books, articles, etc. from other libraries

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DART 261 - your research assignment

• Use academic research methods
• Locate and evaluate at least 6 sources of
  information about your artifact and its place in
  contemporary culture
• Find at least one
• book from a library
• scholarly article
• Popular media source magazines, websites,
  advertisements

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Publishing Cycle
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Scholarly Popular

• author university or research centre
• publisher university or scholarly
• evidence of research and analysis not just
  opinions
• bibliographies

• Author often journalist
• often provides descriptions, biographies,
  opinions
• highly illustrated with visual content
• short bibliographies if any

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Using bibliographies check CLUES Journal Title
search

• Goldber, Michelle. The Rise of the Crafty
  Hipster. Newsweek 161.17 (2013) 1.
• Clues Journal Title search newsweek
• Check to see if date required is available
• Friedman, Daniel. Conspicuous consumption
  dynamics. Games and Economic Behaviour. 64.1
  (Sep 2008) 121-145.
• CLUES Journal Title search games and economic
  behaviour
• Check for date

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artifact mason jarsas cultural artifact
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identify key concepts from artifact to broad
categories

• To find resources related to artifact in society,
  consider combining your keywords
• and the key words - culture or social
  or society
• Mason jars
• fads or trends
• food
• diy
• eco chic
• recycling or environment

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Search Features

• nostalgia and society searches for both
  words
• social or society or searches either word
• consum searches for consume or consumer or
  consumption
• conspicuous consumption . searches exact
  phrase

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How to find journals magazines?

• Use DATABASES
• Check bibliographies
• Scholarly Popular

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Databases tools for identifying articles in
journals

• Interdisciplinary Databases
• Academic Search Complete popular magazines
  scholarly journals
• JSTOR mostly scholarly, but sometime latest
  years are not available
• SocIndex
• Art Design Databases covers context of art,
  design and design history
• Art Full Text
• DAAI Design Applied Arts Index
• Design Research Guide has a list of other
  databases to consider
• NOTE to access databases from home need
  netname password
• or connect to Concordias vpn

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Google Scholar

• covers some journal, book and theses literature
• not as comprehensive as databases but useful for
  interdisciplinary coverage
• Set up library links for Concordia Libraries in
  SETTINGS

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How to find the journals

• From database use
• Check E-journals page
• Check to find out if library has online
  subscription and if so, the date coverage
• Check CLUES
• Check to see if date of journal is available
• Get call no.
• Articles in paper journals can be requested
  through Article Delivery Service
• Check other libraries
• Go to library and photocopy
• Request via InterLibrary Loans

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If you are not finding books on cultural or social

• You may want to use a Subject Search
• Computers and civilization
• Information society social aspects
• Technology social aspects
• Technological innovations social aspects
• body image social aspects
• clothing and dress social aspects
• design social aspects
• environment social aspects

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What kinds of publications are these?book or
book chapter

• Gergen, K. The Challenge of Absent Presence.
  Perpetual Contact Mobile
• Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance.
  Ed. J. E. Katz M. Aakhus. Cambridge, England
  Cambridge University Press, 2002 227-241. Paper.
• Standage, T. The Victorian Internet The
  Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the
• Nineteenth Centurys On-line Pioneers. New
  York Walker Company, 1998. Paper.

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Library Catalogues find Books

• CLUES, Concordia Library Catalogue

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Google Books

• find chapters or sections on a highly specific
  topic
• Example convenience coffee machines
• Check CLUES to find out if the book available in
  library

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Formatting your Bibliography

• Check HELP HOW TO
• Citation Guides
• Explain how to format bibliographic references
• RefWorks
• Set up account to create a database of your
  research references

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