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Mousing around at Evergreen
Catalog page
Physical library collection
Summit consortium
Online databases and services
Museums on the web
MOMA
Condiment Packet Museum
Looking for your museum
Open research log
Google to find your website
Local newspaper
Proquest for news
Proquest for scholarship
Disciplinary databases for deep context
Contact info
Jules Unsel, unselj@evergreen.edu
Ref desk Weds nights
Jules Unsel, unselj@eevergreen.edu
Reference Desk on Weds nights
COLLEGE LEVEL SCHOLARSHIP INVOLVES ....
Research - information gathering and analysis
Organization - recording and information management
Analysis - logical sequencing of findings and knowledge creation
Reporting - formatting and presentation, ie, writing papers, speaking, creating online content
RESEARCH
College research used to be done physically in libraries, with closed sets of vetted information and knowledge chosen by professors and librarians.
Now college research is open to the world wide web, and students must do much of their own vetting and choosing of materials and information.
Evergreen's library is a mixture of old and new resources, which requires students to bring old and new strategies together.
Library catalog
An index of the things physically held at Evergreen - books, cds, dvds, paper journals, etc, plus online resources.
Subscription databases
What is a subscription database?
Wide open spaces, aka the global landfill of ideas.
THINGS TO CONSIDER IN RESEARCHTypes of materials - book, article, website.
Biblio-graphy - read the record in front of you.
Keyword vs subject searching - dumb vs smart classification.
Genres of information - index, abstract, full text.
Interface logic - simple vs advanced search screens.
Information overload - choose a small number of reliable sources and stick with them.
Run a Word file or a blog post behind everything you do online.
Copy and paste search screens, successful search terms.
Run commentary, make notes to yourself.
Note "aha" moments or questions that pop up - they will come back later!
Keep your files and notes in a safe place - thumb drive, hard drive, online.
Back everything up.
Print your notes occasionally; things look different on paper.
RECOMMENDED ONLINE DATABASES FOR ART HISTORY RESEARCH
In a hurry - JSTOR, (Wilson) Humanities Index.
Got time - Bibliography of Art History
A line from Ziggy Stardust.
Today a headline about dreams coming true on Mars.
About once a week, I notice that Google News reads like science fiction, and the Washington Post reads like Elizabethan farce.
I'm writing a new entry on my blog for the new school year. We have a new program blog called Common Knowledge - which has the same initials as one of our program members CK.
Here's a link to our student pages directory.
This is my extended entry, for all my exciting new school year stuff. We'll be using our blogs for keeping up with the news, communicating to each other, posting our papers, and stuff like that.
