Yvonne
Boyer Bibliographer
for Art
Sue
Erickson Bibliographer for Anthropology
In this guide: Books Articles
Reference Sources InterLibrary
Loan Websites Citing
Sources Help
Books
Start in Acorn, Vanderbilt's
online catalog. Acorn includes information about books, journals, magazines,
newspapers, government documents, videos & dvds, cds, microfilm, and more
- but does NOT include journal or magazine articles. All items are
located on Vanderbilt's campus or have online access through the library website.
There many ways to search Acorn: Keyword, Author, Title and by Library of
Congress subjects. The default search in Acorn is a Keyword or WORDS
anywhere search.
Search Tips:
· Narrowing a search:
- Connect different
concepts with the word AND. Example: Pueblo AND pottery
· Broadening a search:
- Use the truncation
symbol ($) to pick up variants of a terms. Example: art$ will retrieve
items with the terms art, arts, artists, artisan, artisans, etc.
- Connect similar concepts
with the word OR. Example: (pottery OR clay OR jars OR bowls) and Indian
· It may be necessary to try several searches, varying your key
terms and combinations each time, in order to produce a manageable list
of relevant items.
· Click on the DETAILS button to see more information about the
book, including the Library of Congress subjects used to describe it.
These subjects will often give you other terms to use in another search.
Or, click on the subjects to launch a new search.
Subject Headings useful for this class:
Indians of North America
Indian art
Indian artists
Many databases have fulltext articles (the whole article is in the database).
However, sometimes you'll only get a citation for an article that looks
perfect for your paper. Vanderbilt subscribes to over 30,000 journals and
newspapers, so chances are good that you'll be able to find the fulltext.
There is a
button
by most citations. Click it for links that will check for fulltext copies
or to see if we subscribe to the print journal. If there is no
button, look up the title of the journal or magazine (not the title of the
article) in Acorn to find out whether or not Vanderbilt has a copy.
Other Resources of Interest:
If we don't have what you need at Vanderbilt, you can go to other resources like Athena, Kudzu or WorldCat and use our InterLibrary Loan service. Just remember these generally take between 3 days to 2 weeks to deliver requested materials.
For additional websites, start with the Subject
Guides that librarians have created for different topics; visit Art
or Anthropology.
Remember! Evaluate
whether or not any website you find will meet your professor's requirements.
Citing Sources
SAA (Society
for American Anthropology) style guide. Citing sources FAQ.
Stuck? Need help? Ask a reference librarian! Feel
free to stop by the reference desk, call 322-2407 or contact us through
our
services.
Last updated February 14, 2007