Hi. In this video I'm going to show you
how to find
books so that you can conduct research
for your art history class.
In my example I am researching
Hieronymus Bosch
and specifically I'm researching his
unusual style
and iconography. I've already done some
background research using encyclopedias
so I could learn a little more about his
life and his work
and what people thought about him and
what they think about him now.
But I still need more information and
some of the best sources of information
for art history are books.  So
I am on the research guide for the Art
102 class.
I'm on the Find Books tab and if I
scroll down
I'm going to see some sources that I can
use to find books.
The first source is the library catalog
for our library
and because we're in this time where
we're all working from home and this is
an online class
I'm also going to show you the Internet
Archive which is
a collection of scanned and digitized
texts.
There's about 20 million books
there and so we might be able to find
some books there as well.
But first I'll start with our library
catalog.
This is the search box for the
catalog and I'm just going to do a
simple search by typing in the name of
my artist.
You can see we have a fair number of
books on this topic but because
we're working online I have to limit
to what's available online
by clicking on that link that says
Available Online.
When I look here I can see there's
only three sources. Two of them are
videos
and one is an encyclopedia. None of these
are scholarly sources and so I know
that for this class these aren't going
to help me out which is frustrating.
That's why we're going to try
looking at the Internet Archive.
If i go back to the Find Books tab
I'm going to click on here for the
Internet Archive
and I'm going to try the same kind of
search.
You have to make sure I spell it
correctly or i won't get any results.
I have 144 results and
these are pretty interesting because you
don't just have text but you also have
images which could be kind of cool if
you're looking for images but right now
I'm looking for
text so I'm going to limit to texts.
Now I'm seeing a bunch of books
about Hieronymus Bosch that I can
actually borrow by clicking on them.
You would have to make an account with the
Internet Archive and if you have a
problem doing that you can contact me
and i'll help you.
You can see it works a lot like a
reserve where you are 
borrowing the books for up to an hour at
a time and you can see they just scanned
an
actual book. This one has a limited
preview so you need to check it out
but this at least is another way where
you can get access
to some great art books
even though our library is closed.
What I want you to understand is that if
you have a hard time finding books on
your topic
don't get frustrated. Reach out to me or
one of the other librarians and we'll do
our best to try to
help you get the resources you need in
this difficult time.
Good luck!  In my next video I'll show you
how to find peer-reviewed [scholarly] articles
on your artist and on the other topics
you're researching.
