In this video I'm going to show you how
to find
e-books on your artist. Now I bet you're
asking
why do I need to look at a book?  They're
too long.
But the reason is some of the best
resources for art history or
history research in general are books so
I just want to make sure you know how to
find them in case you need them.
So let me share my screen. I'm looking at
the research guide and if i click on the
Find Books tab and
I scroll down I'm going to see a link to
our library catalog so this is where
I'll start.
I'm going to do a simple keyword
search in this database
for the name of the artist.
You have to be really careful that
you spell the name correctly.
I'm putting her name in quotes because i
only want resources that have both of
those names next to each other.
I want her full name.
Ihave 16 results
but from what I see it looks like most
of them are in print which means they're
physical books which we can't get right
now.
I'm going to limit to what's available
online
and what I'm seeing is a lot of films.
You'll need to ask your professor
if you're able to use videos as a
resource for this class.
That's a little frustrating but
thankfully we're in the 21st century so
if I go back
to the research guide you can see that I
have provided a link to a resource
called the Internet Archive.
The Internet Archive is a free
publicly available
repository or collection of digitized
materials.
Ao we'll search for her here using the
same kind of search
and you can see I have a lot of results.
All different kinds of things so this is
where it gets kind of cool because we're
dealing with contemporary artists.
There are books about her  
but there are also things like videos of
her installing her art.
There are interviews with her.
You know you really have to work with
your professor
to ask her which kind of sources you can
use but some of these are primary
sources,
they are are things that were created by
her or
for her shows.  The Internet
Archive
it works a lot like the reserves
collection at a library.
If I wanted to look at this book for
example I can borrow it for an hour
and read it and to do that you'll need
to create an account with the Internet
Archive. It's pretty easy
but if you have problems with that you
can ask me for help.
So I've now shown you two resources
you can use to find e-books for your
research
but i know a lot of you guys just want
to go straight to the scholarly articles
so
if you click this Find Articles tab you
will see a video that will show you how
to search our databases.
