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& RESEARCH ASSISTANCE
Reference Assistance
- Basic reference assistance is available whenever art library
staff are on duty: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
- Student assistants are available at the service desk at all
times and can help patrons with questions about using the library
catalog, finding reserve materials, requesting materials from
the Smith College Libraries Storage Facility, requesting inter-library
loans, and connecting to databases and Internet resources.
- Use Ask
a Reference Librarian, an online reference service for brief,
factual questions. Available to students, faculty, and staff at
Smith College.
- The Smith College Libraries Art
and Architecture Resources Page provides links to major art
research library catalogs, indexing and abstracting services for
the visual arts, reviews of art publications, meta-sites for visual
arts information on the Internet, and other research resources.
Research Appointments
Contact Barbara Polowy,
the Art Librarian, at (413) 585-2941 for research assistance with
a thesis, term paper or class assignment, or any other visual arts
research project. Her regular schedule is Monday through Friday
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., but arrangements can be made to meet at other
times.
Library Instruction
- Barbara Polowy,
the Art Librarian, provides classroom instruction in art research
methodology and resources and general orientations to the art
library. Please contact her at (413) 585-2941 at least one week
before a presentation is needed.
- Research guides for current Department of Art courses and other
visual arts research topics are listed on the Library
Research Guides page under the department's "ARH"
heading.
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