Art History  Tags: art arts art_history art_criticism  

Keywords are the most important words in your concept. They are more specific than natural language. For instance, if you want to find out how to teach art history to preschoolers (a natural language phrase that would yield results in Google), you might want to try "teaching," AND "art history." Use a thesaurus if you get stuck. Keep alternate spellings in mind, i.e. color and colour.

Use “and” to combine terms together,  “or” to find one term, the other term or both, “not” to exclude terms. Other operators are bound searches (“media industry”), wildcard searches (ne?t), truncated searches (broadcast*), proximity searches (N5) (W8).

Follow this link for a fun, interactive tutorial on Boolean Searching from Union County College.

It can be useful to browse the book collection to get ideas for your research, or just for fun.Remember to use the tabs at the top of this page or contact the reference librarian if you need help narrowing or targeting your search. Asking for help SAVES YOU TIME!

• 2nd floor - call numbers A - M
• 3rd floor - call numbers N - Z

VERY generally, check the N section for Art History titles.

• ebrary (Full Text)  A collection of over 27,000 electronic books covering all subject areas. A web browser plug-in is required to read ebrary books. Click here to download the ebrary web browser plug-in.
  

• NetLibrary (Full Text)  Over 14,500 electronic books for searching and reading. A web browser plug-in is sometimes required to read NetLibrary books. Click here to download the NetLibrary web browser plug-ins.

• Google Book Search (Full Text)  Over 10,000 full text books many of which are older and no longer copyrighted. Limited access to almost 100,000 additional works. To limit your search to full text click "Full view books". Click here