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HUM 4910/5910 — Nazis and Film — Brodnax

Hello!

This is Ona Britton, your friendly Campus Librarian! Several library databases contain articles and other materials pertinent to this class.

Primary Databases

All of these sources are in the Literature in English subject guide on the Library website.

Film & Television Literature Index. Covers over 300 journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television.

MLA International Bibliography. Comprehensive database for all aspects of literary criticism. Includes citations to journals, books, book chapters, and dissertations.

Humanities International Complete. Contains articles and citations on all humanities subjects.

TIP: You may search databases on the Ebsco platform simultaneously. Watch this video for a demonstration. Including Academic Search Complete in a search may yield a few more articles.

Gale Literature Resource Center. Contains literary overviews, biographical information, and articles about authors and their works.  Includes a smattering a film criticism as well.

More Useful Databases

JSTOR. Full text of back issues of many periodicals. Usually does NOT contain current holdings.

Project Muse. Full text of several journals from university presses covering many disciplines, including literature.

Book Catalogs

Books are useful for finding in depth treatment of a topic. Consult the following catalogs to find books inside and outside the library.

UCO Library Catalog. Searches for all the materials held at Chambers Library.

WorldCat. Searches 54,000 library catalogs worldwide. Use for interlibrary pertinent materials from other libraries.

TIP:  WorldCat is great for interlibrary loan, but you can check out books from other libraries using an OK-Share card, which you get from our library’s Circulation Desk.  Click here for information about OK-Share.

September 10, 2010 at 9:48 am Leave a comment

HUM 2273- Art & Culture for Dr. Taylor

Good Morning!

Here’s just a quick recap of what I went over in your class this morning:

To find biographical information:

One way is to visit our homepage and click on the far left hand side link entitled “Find Articles (Databases). From here, click on the drop-down box in the upper left hand corner (called “Databases by Subject) and select “biography.

This will take you to a subject guides page which will list the databases associated with biographical information.

The top two would be:

Biography Reference Bank

Description: Biography Reference Bank contains more than 95,000 short biographies and obituaries and 26,000 photographs from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books.

Biography Master Index

Description: Citations for biographical information on more than 5 million people. Indexes articles, books, and autobiographies for graphical subjects from antiquity to the present. Includes individual and collective biographies from all fields and nationalities.

Another database you will want to visit is…

Oxford Art Online

Description: Contains the full text of:

  • Grove Art Online, consisting of the prestigious 34-volume Dictionary of Art
  • Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
  • The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (4 volumes)
  • The Oxford Companion to Western Art

Oxford Art Online also provides images and links from ARTStor and other sources for artworks, 1,000 biographies, searching by timelines, styles and cultures, geography, artist, name of work, museum, and genre.Wow! Talk about a database! )

This is going to help you with your second part of your assignment–

Finding information about the “cultural milieu” of your artist’s time period.

When you first enter Oxford Art Online, you’ll notice that on the top there’s a link entitled “Subject Entries” that will take you to a search page that will provide information pertaining to styles and cultures and time periods.

You will, of course, need more sources than just Oxford Art Online…

Watch a quick video of searching in ARTstor and Oxford Art:

Try looking up reference books downstairs in the Reference area pertaining to your specific time period.

Here’s just a brief selection of books that might be helpful:

Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000
REF HN 373 .E63 2001

Encyclopedia of Social History
REF HN 28 .E53 1994

Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean [Rome]
REF DE 59 .C55

Concise Encyclopedia of the Italian Renaissance [Florence]
REF DG 445 .C66

Encyclopedia of the Ancient World [Rome]
REF CB 311 .E54

Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century [New York]
REF E 740.7 .E53

These books will give you insight into the social and cultural surroundings during your artist’s time period.

You can also search our catalog for other sources…

Sample keyword and subject searches for the catalog:

KEYWORD STRATEGIES SUBJECT STRATEGIES FOR CITY OVERVIEWS (remember to drop the box down to “Boolean”)
Crime and histor? Architecture and society
Cultur? and history? and europ? Cities and towns and history
Rome [or other city] and histor?
Cultur? and Soviet Union

SUBJECT STRATEGIES FOR SPECIFIC CITIES (remember to drop the box down to “Subject Headings”)
Social problem? and europ?
Social problem? and united states Chicago (Ill.)—social conditions
Florence Italy—customs
London England—social life and customs
Los Angeles (Calif.)–history
New York (N.Y.)–history
Rome—social life and customs
Paris France

Alrightie… Remember, if you need any additional assistance please contact us through the Ask Us! link on the library homepage or come visit us at the reference desk!

We love questions!

>^..^< Amanda

P.S. Need some help with citing?

The Library’s MLA Handout.

The OWL (Online Writing Lab at Purdue) Provides additional examples and offers additional tips on writing academic papers.

KnightCite or Son of Citation Machine are citation creators that can assist you in formatting your reference or bibliography page. These may not be 100% accurate so alway check your results with your MLA manual.

March 31, 2009 at 9:15 am Leave a comment

HUM 2273- Art and Culture for Dr. Taylor

Good Morning!

Here’s just a quick recap of what I went over in your class this morning:

To find biographical information:

One way is to visit our homepage and click on the far left hand side link entitled “Find Articles (Databases). From here, click on the drop-down box in the upper left hand corner (called “Databases by Subject) and select “biography.

This will take you to a subject guides page which will list the databases associated with biographical information.

The top two would be:

Biography Reference Bank

Description: Biography Reference Bank contains more than 95,000 short biographies and obituaries and 26,000 photographs from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books.

Biography Master Index

Description: Citations for biographical information on more than 5 million people. Indexes articles, books, and autobiographies for graphical subjects from antiquity to the present. Includes individual and collective biographies from all fields and nationalities.

Another database you will want to visit is…

Oxford Art Online

Description: Contains the full text of:

  • Grove Art Online, consisting of the prestigious 34-volume Dictionary of Art
  • Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
  • The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (4 volumes)
  • The Oxford Companion to Western Art

Oxford Art Online also provides images and links from ARTStor and other sources for artworks, 1,000 biographies, searching by timelines, styles and cultures, geography, artist, name of work, museum, and genre.Wow! Talk about a database! )

This is going to help you with your second part of your assignment–

Finding information about the “cultural milieu” of your artist’s time period.

When you first enter Oxford Art Online, you’ll notice that on the top there’s a link entitled “Subject Entries” that will take you to a search page that will provide information pertaining to styles and cultures and time periods.

You will, of course, need more sources than just Oxford Art Online…

Watch a quick video of searching in ARTstor and Oxford Art:

Try looking up reference books downstairs in the Reference area pertaining to your specific time period.

Here’s just a brief selection of books that might be helpful:

Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000
REF HN 373 .E63 2001

Encyclopedia of Social History
REF HN 28 .E53 1994

Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean [Rome]
REF DE 59 .C55

Concise Encyclopedia of the Italian Renaissance [Florence]
REF DG 445 .C66

Encyclopedia of the Ancient World [Rome]
REF CB 311 .E54

Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century [New York]
REF E 740.7 .E53

These books will give you insight into the social and cultural surroundings during your artist’s time period.

You can also search our catalog for other sources…

Sample keyword and subject searches for the catalog:

KEYWORD STRATEGIES SUBJECT STRATEGIES FOR CITY OVERVIEWS (remember to drop the box down to “Boolean”)
Crime and histor? Architecture and society
Cultur? and history? and europ? Cities and towns and history
Rome [or other city] and histor?
Cultur? and Soviet Union

SUBJECT STRATEGIES FOR SPECIFIC CITIES (remember to drop the box down to “Subject Headings”)
Social problem? and europ?
Social problem? and united states Chicago (Ill.)—social conditions
Florence Italy—customs
London England—social life and customs
Los Angeles (Calif.)–history
New York (N.Y.)–history
Rome—social life and customs
Paris France

Alrightie… Remember, if you need any additional assistance please contact us through the Ask Us! link on the library homepage or come visit us at the reference desk!

We love questions!

>^..^< Amanda

P.S. Need some help with citing?

The Library’s MLA Handout.

The OWL (Online Writing Lab at Purdue) Provides additional examples and offers additional tips on writing academic papers.

KnightCite or Son of Citation Machine are citation creators that can assist you in formatting your reference or bibliography page. These may not be 100% accurate so alway check your results with your MLA manual.

November 19, 2008 at 9:08 pm Leave a comment

HUM 2273- Art and Culture for Dr. Taylor

Good Morning!

Here’s just a quick recap of what I went over in your class this morning:

To find biographical information:

One way is to visit our homepage and click on the far left hand side link entitled “Find Articles (Databases). From here, click on the drop-down box in the upper left hand corner (called “Databases by Subject) and select “biography.

This will take you to a subject guides page which will list the databases associated with biographical information.

The top two would be:

Biography Reference Bank

Description: Biography Reference Bank contains more than 95,000 short biographies and obituaries and 26,000 photographs from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books.

Biography Master Index

Description: Citations for biographical information on more than 5 million people. Indexes articles, books, and autobiographies for graphical subjects from antiquity to the present. Includes individual and collective biographies from all fields and nationalities.

Another database you will want to visit is…

Grove Art Online

Description: Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of the prestigious 34-volume Dictionary of Art with ongoing additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference resource. Includes image searching, encyclopedia-length articles, bibliographies, and searching by many factors such as timelines, styles and cultures, geography, artist, name of work, museum, and genre.

Wow! Talk about a database! :)

This is going to help you with your second part of your assignment–

Finding information about the “cultural milieu” of your artist’s time period.

When you first enter Grove Art Online, you’ll notice that on the right hand side there’s a section entitled “explore” that will take you to information pertaining to styles and cultures and time periods.

You will, of course, need more sources than just Grove Art Online…

Try looking up reference books downstairs in the Reference area pertaining to your specific time period.

Here’s just a brief selection of books that might be helpful:

Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000
REF HN373 .E63 2001

Encyclopedia of Social History
REF HN28 .E53 1994

Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean [Rome]
REF DE 59 .C55

Concise Encyclopedia of the Italian Renaissance [Florence]
REF DG 445 .C66

Encyclopedia of the Ancient World [Rome]
REF CB311 .E54

Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century [New York]
REF E740.7 .E53

These books will give you insight into the social and cultural surroundings during your artist’s time period.

You can also search our catalog for other sources…

Sample keyword and subject searches would be:

KEYWORD STRATEGIES SUBJECT STRATEGIES FOR CITY OVERVIEWS
Crime and histor? Architecture and society
Cultur? and history? and europ? Cities and towns and history
Rome [or other city] and histor?
Cultur? and Soviet Union

SUBJECT STRATEGIES FOR SPECIFIC CITIES
Social problem? and europ?
Social problem? and united states Chicago (Ill.)—social conditions
Florence Italy—customs
London England—social life and customs
Los Angeles (Calif.)–history
New York (N.Y.)–history
Rome—social life and customs
Paris France

Alrightie… Have a glorious Spring Break and please remember that if you need any additional assistance please contact us through the Ask Us! link on the library homepage or come visit us at the reference desk!

We love questions!

>^..^< Amanda

P.S. Need some help with citing?

The Library’s MLA Handout.

The OWL (Online Writing Lab at Purdue) Provides additional examples and offers additional tips on writing academic papers.

KnightCite or Son of Citation Machine are citation creators that can assist you in formatting your reference or bibliography page. These may not be 100% accurate so alway check your results with your MLA manual.

March 14, 2008 at 8:45 am Leave a comment


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