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HSS 206 - Introductory Seminar in Religion Art and Visual Culture

Basic Library Services

• Reference Librarians are here to help! Visit us, call us, email us, or chat with us!
• Library hours
• Finding It! A Research Skills Tutorial : A self-paced tutorial in eight chapters.
  Learn how to prepare for a research paper, pick the right research tools, search for information in our online catalog, in databases and on the web!

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Murray, Peter, and Linda Murphy. The Oxford Companion to Christian Art and Architecture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Location: Electronic Book

Grove Dictionary of Art
Contains 45,000 entries on all aspects of the visual arts
Also available in print in the Reference Department (call number N31 .D5 1996)

Jones, Lindsay, ed. Encyclopedia of Religion. New York: Thomson Gale, 2005.
Location: ref BL31 E46 2005

Electronic Databases

Art Index

• Indexes articles from 1929-1984 from over 400 art journals.
• Also indexes art images that appear in journals.

JSTOR

• Provides full-text of over 450 scholarly articles in a variety of disciplines.
• Typically, coverage of a journal starts with its first issue and ends 2-7 years ago.

Library Catalog

• Use to help find books in the library
• Search your artist's name as a Keyword Anywhere search to find everything written about him/her.
• Search using the search connectors AND and OR
• More about Search Connectors from our Research Tutorial Finding It!

Finding Websites

Search the Web
A selection of search engines and directories that can help you find the information you need.

Guidelines for Evaluating Web Resources
Suggestions for how to make sure the stuff you get off the web is quality material. From our online tutorial Finding It!.

Style Guides

The Chicago Manual of Style Online

The manual is also available in print at the Reference Desk.

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