This document provides an overview of library resources available to art students at George Mason University, including databases, image resources, and guides for researching art topics and finding relevant books, articles, and other materials. It highlights databases for art, architecture, design, and other visual arts subjects. The document also offers tips for effective searching and contacting a librarian for research assistance.

1. AVT 253:
Intro to Digital Photography
Spring 2014

2. WHY DO ART STUDENTS NEED
LIBRARY RESOURCES?
In addition to writing papers for class, the
library will help you find resources…
To inspire your work.
To understand how your work connects to
the world around you.
To express your motivations as an artist
(e.g., artist statement).
To explain your work to others like curators
& gallery owners.

3. RESEARCH IN THE ARTS

4. LIBRARY RESOURCES
Library Website:
 http://library.gmu.edu
 Ask-a-Librarian→ IM…
 InfoGuides & Research Portals
Library catalog:
 Books & E-books
 Videos
 WRLC…

5. MORE LIBRARY RESOURCES
Research Databases
 Art Fulltext
 Art & Architecture Complete
 ProQuest Arts Databases

6. MORE ART DATABASES
 ARTBibliographies Modern
 Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
 artnet Price Database Decorative Art
 Berg Fashion Library
 Bibliography History of Art (BHA)
 Design & Applied Arts (DAAI)
 International Bibliography of Art (IBA)

7. WHERE TO SEARCH:
DATABASES
Super Stores
ProQuest Research Library
Multi-subject, popular & scholarly
articles, extensive full-text
Academic Search Complete
Multi-subject, popular & scholarly
articles, extensive full-text
Specialty Stores
Subject-Based Databases
Art Full Text
Full-text articles from over 300
journals. Abstracts for over 600.
Fine, decorative and commercial
art, folk art, photography, film &
architecture.
ARTbibliographies Modern
Modern & contemporary art. All
mediums, from painting, sculpture &
photography to video, body art &
graffiti. Abstracts beginning late
1960s.

8. IMAGE RESOURCES
Image Databases
 Art Museum Image Gallery
 Oxford Art Online
 ARTstor

9. Creator Chuck Close, American
Title Self-Portrait
Work Type Photograph
Date 2000
Material three daguerreotypes
Measurements 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches each
Repository Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Gift of the Women's Committee of the Corcoran
Gallery of Art
Accession Number 2001.46
ARTstor Collection Corcoran Gallery of Art
http://www.corcoran.org/home

11. FINDING WHAT YOU
ACTUALLY WANT
The Starbucks Syndrome
Understanding what search terms to use to get
the books & articles you actually want

12. HOW TO SEARCH: EXAMPLES
 Shroud of Turin Holy Shroud
 Brand design Brand identity; Corporate
identity; Brand development; Logos
 Northern Renaissance art Renaissance—
Europe, Northern; Flemish; Netherlands;
Dutch; Netherlandish; add time period like
15th century

13. ONLINE GUIDES
http://infoguides.gmu.edu/art

14. ONLINE GUIDES
http://photoportal.gmu.edu

15. INSIDE THE LIBRARY

16. INSIDE THE LIBRARY

17. QUESTIONS
 http://infoguides.gmu.edu/arth
 Ask-a-Librarian: http://library.gmu.edu/ask
 Reference desk: 703/993-2210
 Visual Arts Liaison: Jenna Rinalducci
703/993-3720 or jrinaldu@gmu.edu