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Sponsored by ARLIS/NA (Art Libraries Society of North America)Lois Swan Jones has updated and expanded the methodology of her 1990 work, ^LArt Information, to reflect the recent explosive growth in electronic resources. In this new work, Jones shows researchers how to locate art information online and how to supplement it with information in other formats to produce the best possible research results. This work describes the methodology and resources that art researchers need to find and use information on the Internet.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword by Caroline H. Backlund
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Basic Information FormatsElectronic Data and the Internet
Other Information Formats and Their Publishers' Web Sites
Types of Web Sites and How to Find ThemWeb Sites of Museums
Web Sites of Academic Institutions, Corporate Sponsors, and Individuals
Cultural, Civic, and Professional Organizations; National Trusts; and Foundations
Web Presence of Libraries: Overviews, Search Strategies, and Services
Web Sites of Serials and Indexes to Art and Literature
Buying and Selling Art
How to Use and Supplement Web InformationBasic Research Methodology: Finding and Supplementing Web Data
Art Historical Styles and Periods: Ancient World to Modern Era
Documenting the Lives of Artists and Art Collectors
Studying Works of Art
Resources for Architecture, Decorative Arts, Fashion, Graphic Arts, Photography, and Sculpture
North Amrican (U.S.), Canadian, and Native American Studies
Non-European Cultures
Additional Art Information
Appendixes
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Lois Swan Jones, PhD, is a professor emeritus in the School of Visual Arts at the University of North Texas, where she was coordinator of the art history program. She has written and lectured extensively on art research methodology. Jones is the author of several books, notably, Art Information: Research Methods and Resources (third edition, 1990) and Art Libraries and Information Services (1986), and she has Jones has been listed in Whos Who in American Art since 1978, and in 1997, she received the Distinguished Service Award from the Art Libraries Society of North America for her contributions to the field of art information research. 2000 Worldwide Books Publication Award, which was presented at the 2000 Annual conference of ARLIS/NA.
Zusammenfassung
This guide shows Internet users how to locate online art information and images, and how to supplement these materials with information in other formats to produce the best research results.
