Art History Information Competence Project: Bibliography

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The following publications--not all of which have been personally reviewed--deal with information competence instruction (aka library instruction, bibliographic instruction) in the arts and humanities; or with how students and faculty in the arts and humanities use libraries and seek information. Items are listed in descending chronological order. Consult the Library Catalog or Electronic Journals list for availability.
Suggestions for additions to this bibliography are always welcome, and may be sent to edith.crowe@sjsu.edu.

Brown, Jeanne M., ed. Library Instruction for Students in Design Disciplines: Scenarios, Exercises & Techniques.

Kanata, Ont., Canada: Art Libraries Society of North America, 2002.
SJSU Availability: King Library 8th Floor Z 711.2 .L53 2002x

Atkins, Priscilla. "Information Literacy and the Arts: Be There-Or Miss It!"

College and Research Libraries News 62 (no. 11 Dec., 2001): 1086-8, 1092
SJSU Availability: per Z 671 .C61x; Library Literature & Information Science Full Text, Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition.

Reed, Bonnie, & Donald R. Tanner. "Information Needs and Library Services for Fine Arts Faculty."

Journal of Academic Librarianship 27 (no. 3, 2001): 229-234.
SJSU Availability: per Z 675.U5 J65x; Education Full Text; Library Literature & Information Science Full Text; Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition; ScienceDirect Elsevier Science Journals

Whitmore, Marilyn P., ed. Creative Strategies for Library Instruction in the Arts, Literature, and Music.

Pittsburgh: Library Instruction Publications, ©2001
SJSU Availability: King Library 8th Floor Z 711.2 .C877x 2001

Gervits, Maya and Halina Rusak. "Art and Archaeology of the African Diaspora: New Challenges in Art History Instruction."

Art Documentation 19 (no. 2, 2000): 46-48.
SJSU Availability: per Z 675.A85 A19x

Halverson, Aniko L. and Joye Volker. "Information Literacy in the Electronic Arts Library: Strategies for the Hybrid Professional."

IFLA Journal 26 (no. 2, 2000): 120-2 [per Z 672 .I57b]
SJSU Availability: Library Literature & Information Science Full Text; Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition.

Petrowski, Mary Jane. "Creativity Research: Implications for Teaching, Learning and Thinking."

Reference Services Review 28 (no. 4, 2000): 304-12
SJSU Availability: per Z 1035.1 .R43; EBSCO Online, Emerald Fulltext

Frank, Polly. "Student Artists in the Library: An Investigation of How They Use General Academic Libraries for Their Creative Needs."

The Journal of Academic Librarianship 25 (no. 6, November 1999): 445-55
SJSU Availability: per Z 675.U5 J65x; Education Full Text; Library Literature & Information Science Full Text; Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition; ScienceDirect Elsevier Science Journals

Kennedy, Lynn, Charles Cole, and Susan Carter. "The False Focus in Online Searching: The Particular Case of Undergraduates Seeking Information for Course Assignments in the Humanities and Social Sciences."

Reference & User Services Quarterly 38 (no. 3, Spring, 1999): 267-73.
SJSU Availability: per Z 671 .R7; Expanded Academic ASAP; Library Literature & Information Science Full Text; Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition

Van Zijl, Carol and Elizabeth M. Gericke. "Information-Seeking Patterns of Artists and Art Scholars at the Vaal Triangle Technikon."

South African Journal of Library and Information Science 66 (no. 1, March, 1998): 23-33.
Not available at SJSU.

Blank, Peter P. "Designing Electronic Bibliographic Instruction around Issues of Infrastructure: Prepare your Clientele for Change"

Art Documentation 16 (no. 1, 1997): 9-11
SJSU Availability: per Z 675.A85 A19x

Chibnik, Katharine. "Three Flings and a Dream: Bibliographic Instruction for Graduate Students at the Avery Library"

Art Documentation 16 (no1, 1997):. 3-5
SJSU Availability: per Z 675.A85 A19x

MacDonald, Sara J. "The Web and I; or, Ask Not What You Can Do for the Internet, but What the Internet Can Do for You"

Art Documentation 16 (no.1, 1997):13-14
SJSU Availability: per Z 675.A85 A19x

Wayne, Kathryn M. "The Impact of Bibliographic Instruction on the Architecture Curriculum at the University of California Berkeley"

Art Documentation 16 (no.1, 1997):. 7-8
SJSU Availability: per Z 675.A85 A19x

Cobbledick, Susie. "The Information-Seeking Behavior of Artists: Exploratory Interviews."

The Library Quarterly 66 (October, 1996): 343-72
SJSU Availability: per Z 671 .L713; Expanded Academic ASAP

Fusich, Monica. "Ask ARLIS I: the Librarian as Educator"

Art Documentation 14 (Summer, 1995): 7-8
SJSU Availability: per Z 675.A85 A19x

Harris, Sylvia. "Into the 21st Century Now: the Architecture Librarian as Mediator"

Art Libraries Journal 20 (no. 2, 1995): 18-20
Not available at SJSU.

Kolganova, Ida. "Creative Co-operation between Librarian and Artists in the Russian State Arts Library."

Art Libraries Journal 20 (no. 2, 1995): 25-27.
Not available at SJSU.

Powell, Elaine F. "Information Seeking Behaviors of Studio Artists."

Master's Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1995. 33 pp.
Not available at SJSU.

Stam, Deirdre C. "Artists and Art Libraries."

Art Libraries Journal 20 (no. 2, 1995): 21-24.
Not available at SJSU.

Conway, Vida. "Have You Got a Book on Masks? Art and the School Library."

The School Librarian 42 (May, 1994): 45-47+.
SJSU Availability: per Z 671 .S3; Library Literature & Information Science Full Text, Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition.

Barlow, Deborah L "Ask ARLIS II: Resource Access and Bibliographic Instruction in the Electronic Age"

Art Documentation 12 (Summer, 1993): 49
SJSU Availability: per Z 675.A85 A19x

Fister, Barbara and Linnea Wren. "Recreating the Renaissance: Dramatic Presentations in an Art History Class."

Research Strategies 8 (Fall, 1990): 200-203.
SJSU Availability: per Z 675.U5 R45; ScienceDirect Elsevier Science Journals

Petrie, Claire. "User Education in the Visual Arts Library."

In Performing Arts Resources, Theatre Library Association, 1990, pp. 83-88.
Not available at SJSU.

Pisciotta, Henry A. "Let's Talk: An Approach to Bibliographic Instruction for the Studio Major, Part One."

Art Documentation 8 (Spring, 1989): 24-5
SJSU Availability: per Z 675.A85 A19x

Stam, Deirdre C. "Tracking Art Historians: On Information Needs and Information-Seeking Behaviour."

Art Libraries Journal 14 (no. 3, 1989): 13-16.
Not available at SJSU.

Wiberly, Stephen and William Goodrich Jones. "Patterns of Information Seeking in the Humanities."

College and Research Libraries 50 (1989): 438-45.
SJSU Availability: per Z 671 .C6

Teague, Edward H. "A Portrait for the Librarian: Bibliographic Education for Students in Design Disciplines,"

in Conceptual Frameworks for Bibliographic Education: Theory into Practice, edited by Mary Reichel & Mary Ann Ramey (Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1987): 101.
SJSU Availability: King Library 8th Floor Z 675 .U5 C726 1987

Broadbent, Elaine. "A Study of Humanities Faculty Library Information Seeking Behavior."

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 6 (Spring, 1986): 23-37.
Not available at SJSU.

Pacey. Philip. "How Art Students Use Libraries."

in A Reader in Art Librarianship, edited by Philip Pacey (New York: Saur, 1985): 53-55.
SJSU Availability: King Library 8th Floor Z675.A85 R43 1985

Day, Joan M. & Elizabeth McDwell. "Information Needs and Use of Art and Design Students,"

Education Libraries Bulletin 28 (Autumn 1985): 39-40.
Not available at SJSU.

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