Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology

Library session for ART 354 The Art of the Print

Basics | Finding Facts | Finding Books | Finding Articles | Finding Images | Library Staff Contact Info

| Basics |

Library session web page, http://marquand.princeton.edu/art354.php

Princeton University Library web page, http://libweb.princeton.edu/

Library online catalog, http://catalog.princeton.edu/

Find Articles and Databases, http://library.princeton.edu/catalogs/articles.php

| Finding Facts |

TIP #1: Facts can be found in both print and electronic sources. Web searching is fine, but remember that the library pays for more academic resources.

Grove Dictionary of Art
This good general resource includes biographies of both Western and non-Western artists, architects, patrons, critics, and collectors in addition to major entries on art styles, subjects, and media.

| Finding Books |

TIP #1: You will not find articles in the online catalog, only journal titles. For articles look in databases like the Art Index or the Bibliography of the History of Art.

TIP #2: When doing keyword seaches you must use AND, OR, NOT logic. See below for details.

TIP #3: If Princeton doesn't have everything you need, search large online catalogs such as RLIN or WorldCat. You can request items through the Borrow Direct service or interlibrary loan.

Keyword Searching

Try to think of words that are specific to your topic (such as durer and criticism) and not too general (prints). Think of multiple ways to describe what you want. A keyword search requires Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) or quotes.

Use quotes for exact phrases

"toulouse-lautrec"

Combine keywords to narrow your search

"toulouse-lautrec" and lithographs
etching and technique
engraving and blake
(prints and woodcuts) not japan

You can also use truncation

printmak? picks up words like "printmaking" and "printmakers"

Subject Searching

When you search by subject, you can search by a broad concept (engraving) to a narrow one (exhibitions of 15th century French engravings in the Basse-Normandie region). You must put your search words in a particular order, and you cannot use AND, OR, NOT.

engraving
engraving -- 15th century -- france -- basse-normandie -- exhibitions.
lithography
rembrandt
durer, albrecht, 1471-1528 -- criticism and interpretation.

Note: the dashes (--) between words are to illustrate the subdivisions.

Limiting Searches

The "Set Limits" button takes you to a screen where you can set limits which will narrow your search results. These limits only work with keyword searches. They stay in effect for subsequent searches unless you clear them.

You can limit by:

Date (year item was published)
Language
Item type (such as archival collection or music score)
Medium (such as a soundrecording or visual material)
Location (a specific Princeton library)
Place of publication (country, US state, Canadian province)

| Finding Articles |

TIP #1: As in the main catalog, both keyword and subject searching will work in databases like Art Index.

TIP #2: To find the actual article in the library after finding the citation, you have to search the online catalog for the title of the journal. For instance, to find the following article:

Jaco Rutgers, "A Source for Rembrandt's Beheading of St John the Baptist." Print Quarterly v. 21 no. 2 (June 2004) p. 154-6.

Do a journal title search in the online catalog for Print Quarterly.

TIP #3: Many databases support Find it @PUL, which searches for the article in full text sources and in our online catalog.

Art Index
Good, all purpose index to periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, and film reviews. Covers all the arts, including architecture.

Bibliography of the History of Art
Contains records describing the current literature of art, including books, museum and exhibition catalogs, Festschriften, congress and symposium proceedings, dissertations. Very scholarly sources.

| Finding Images |

TIP #1: Use both print and electronic resources for finding images.

TIP #2: Often journal articles will contain images. Citations in Art Index will indicate if there are reproductions of plans, elevations, etc.

ARTstor
Funded by a Mellon grant, includes more than 100,000 digital images of art works for the study of art, architecture, and other fields in the humanities. ARTstor contains the Illustrated Bartsch collection, which "offers nearly 50,000 images of Old Master European prints from the 15th to the early 19th centuries." The print version of the Illustrated Bartsch is on Marquand's B floor at Oversize NE800.B2 I4q

CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online)
Online collection documenting more than 115,000 works of art from around the world. Images, text and multimedia represent a broad range of works of art from the collections of the members of the Art Museum Image Consortium.

| Library Staff Contact Info |

Laurel Bliss, Assistant Librarian, lbliss@princeton.edu