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Writing 112 (Lawrence)

Writing in the Arts

Welcome!

Wondering how to access, locate, and use information sources?  This guide will provide information to support your research endeavors.

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Introduction

This guide brings together resources related to the arts.  Included are search strategies to help you find the information you'll need for this course.

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Guide Summary

Use the side tabs to navigate this guide.  Below is a summary of the information located on each tab. 

Search Strategies:  includes three basic search strategies to use in databases

Finding Images: points to databases and additional resources for locating images

More on ARTstor: discover how to use this large image databases to locate high quality images

Databases - Art Focus: lists databases recommended for research in the arts field, including about artistic movements, painters, exhibitions, works of art etc.

Databases - Arts & Humanities: lists additional databases that may also refer to art topics and additional historical context around art topics

About Artists: provides information on how to find biographical information on artists and interviews

About Exhibitions: strategies for locating information on artist exhibitions or exhibition catalogs

Scholarly or Popular?: notes characteristics of popular and scholarly sources

Access: information the Virtual Private Network (VPN), finding full text through Get it at UC, and requesting resources through Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

Citing Images: resources for learning how to cite images in Chicago format

 

Instruction & Outreach Librarian

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Olivia Olivares
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