Fall 2001 - Nina James-Fowler
Reference Contact: Barbara Polowy x2941

GETTING STARTED

Art Reference N31.D5 1996 and Groveart.com, the online version
The Dictionary of Art. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 1996.
The dictionary does not have a comprehensive survey article about landscape architecture but addresses the subject in sections of general articles about the arts of civilizations and countries. It has an excellent survey on garden design, Garden, and good articles on types of gardens and specific gardens. Use the "related articles" feature for links to these topics. The dictionary also includes articles on individual landscape architects and garden designers. Entries for individuals include biographical, critical, and contextual information. Each article is supplemented by a bibliography of major primary and secondary sources.

Research Guide

Art Reference SB470.53.L36 1997
Vogelsong, Diana. Landscape Architecture Sourcebook: A Guide to Resources on the History and Practice of Landscape Architecture in the United States. Detroit: Omnigraphics, 1997.
Covers all aspects of the discipline--history, theory, and practice, as well as visual, scientific, and social. Lists reference sources, general histories, information on specific types of projects, monographs on designers, periodicals, organizations and other institutional resources. Focus on the United States, but does include historical material about other countries.

Special Subject Reference Tools

Art Reference SB469.9.P56 2000
Birnbaum, Charles A., and Robin Karson. Pioneers of American Landscape Design. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
Biographical profiles of 160 American landscape architects covering the 18th through the second half of the 20th century. Each entry includes bibliographic citations, archive information, lists of public sites. Illustrated.

Art Reference NA31.F55 1998
Fleming, John; Hugh Honour; Nikolaus Pevsner. Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 5th ed. London: Penguin Books, 1998.
Includes brief biographical entries (with bibliographies) for notable landscape architects and essays on the landscape architecture of specific countries.

Art Reference SB469.O95 1986
Jellicoe, Geoffrey, and Susan Jellicoe. The Oxford Companion to Gardens. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
"Information on gardens and their designers of all periods." Also includes short essays on the gardens of specific countries and definitions of gardening terms. International scope. Useful introductory essay on the history of the literature of the of garden design and landscape architecture. Illustrated.

Useful Library of Congress subject headings for material on the history of landscape architecture and garden design are:

• General
  Landscape architecture | Landscape gardening | Landscape design
  Landscape Architects | Women Landscape Architects
  Gardens-- Design | Gardens -- History | Arboretums
  
• Personal Names
  [landscape architect's name] in inverted order, for example
  Farrand Beatrix | Kiley Dan | Le Notre Andre | Olmsted Frederick Law
  
• Firm Names
  [firm name] in natural order, for example
  Olmsted Brothers
  
• Site Names
  [site name] in the language of the country
  Dumbarton Oaks Gardens | Central Park (New York, N.Y.)
  Parc de Versailles (Versailles, France) | Ryoanji Teien (Kyoto, Japan)
• Types of Landscapes, Gardens, & Other Sites
  For example, Parks | Plazas | Cemeteries | Campus planning | Greenbelts
  Water gardens | Botanical gardens | Sculpture gardens

Five College Library Catalog
The online catalog provides access to the combined library holdings of Smith, Amherst, Hampshire, and Mount Holyoke Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

• Library Reserve Reading List
  Up-to-date list of readings and references selected by Nina James-Fowler for
  LSS200: History of Landscape Architecture.

WorldCat
WorldCat is universal in subject scope and includes records for over 41 million items held in thousands of libraries throughout the United States and Europe. It is an excellent source for developing a bibliography and verifying citations. It is updated daily. To request items found in Worldcat through Smith's Interlibrary Loan Service, plan ahead and allow at least two weeks for delivery.

FINDING PERIODICAL ARTICLES & OTHER ANALYTICS

Indexing & Abstracting Services

Art Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective
These two databases cover all aspects of the visual arts, including landscape architecture, garden design, and planning, providing cover to cover indexing of over 400 periodicals published throughout the world. They provide access to articles, exhibition and book reviews, and reproductions. Art Abstracts covers 1984 to the present, Art Index Retrospective covers 1929 to 1984. Art Abstracts is updated monthly and abstracts are provided for records added after 1994.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Covering architecture and related fields such as city planning and landscape architecture, Avery Index provides regular access to approximately 1,000 periodicals from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present. Updated daily.

BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art
BHA provides access to literature on the post-classical western visual arts published in over 3,000 periodicals and in books, exhibition catalogues, doctoral dissertations, Festschriften and other collected essays, and conference publications. The database also incorporates all volumes of RILA (1975-1989) and volumes for 1973 to 1989 of RAA. Abstracts are provided for most records.

Royal Institute of British Architects. British Architectural Library Catalogue
More than 215,000 records from 1986 to the present describing articles in 300 journals and books, drawings, photographs, manuscript and archival materials in the library collection. Covers all aspects of architecture. Abstracts are included for most records.

Selective List of Periodicals for Landscape Architecture Research

Design Quarterly. United States. 1954-1996. Art Periodical NK1.E9
Journal of Garden History. Great Britain. 1981-1997. Art Periodical SB451.J67
Journal of the American Planning Association. United States. 1979- .
Art Periodical NA9000.A45
Landscape and Urban Planning. United States. 1995- . Online. (Smith campus only)
Landscape Architecture. United States. 1910- . Art Periodical SB469.L3
Landscape History. Great Britain. 2000- . Art Periodical GF101.L35
Landscape Journal. United States. 2001- .Art Periodical SB469.L35
Orion. United States. 1999- . Neilson Periodicals QH1.O714
Places. United States. 1983- . Art Periodical NA9000.P55
Preservation: The Magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. United States. 1952- . Art Periodical E151.H5.
ROTH Teien Journal of Japanese Gardening. United States. 1998- . Art Reserve SB458 .R68
Spazio e Societa=Space and Society. Italy. 1983- . Art Periodical NA4.S65
Town Planning Review. Great Britain. 1910- . Art Periodical NA9000.T6

Published Conference Papers

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture. 1971- . Annual.
Wide-ranging themes include Islamic gardens, vernacular gardens, French formal gardens, and ancient Roman gardens. Use the title of the series as an author when checking the library catalog.

INTERNET RESOURCES

Research Guide

Art Reference N59.J66 1999
Jones, Lois Swan. Art Information and the Internet: How to Find it, How to Use It. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1999.

Metasite

Brown, Jeanne. "Architecture and Building Internet Resource Guide." Established 1993, last updated September 5, 2001. Online. University of Nevada, Las Vegas Architecture Studies Library. Available: http://library.nevada.edu/arch/rsrce/webrsrce/contents.html. October 1 , 2001.
Includes a special section on Landscape Architecture, though material can also be found in other parts of the guide. The guide is selective, but extensive, with an emphasis on quality sites.

Special Landscape Architecture Sources

"American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1880-1920." Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Available: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/mhsdhtml/aladhome.html. October 1, 2001.
"This collection of approximately 2,800 [digitized] lantern slides represents an historical view of American buildings and landscapes built during the period 1850-1920. It represents the work of Harvard faculty, such as Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Bremer W. Pond, and James Sturgis Pray, as well as that of prominent landscape architects throughout the country. The collection offers views of cities, specific buildings, parks, estates and gardens, including a complete history of Boston's Park System."

"American Memory, Collection Finder." Library of Congress. Available: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html. October 1, 2001.
In addition to "American Landscape and Architectural Design" described above, American Memory includes a variety of other resources--digitized images and texts--for the study of the American landscape and landscape architecture including panoramic maps, other maps (many of them illustrated), panoramic photographs, materials documenting the national parks, and environmental photographs

"Archives of American Gardens." Smithsonian Institution, Horticulture Services Division. Available: http://www.si.edu/horticulture/res_ed/aag/home.htm. October 1, 2001.
A "collection of approximately 60,000 photographic images and records that document historic and contemporary gardens throughout the United States. The images, which show views from colonial times to the present, include a considerable range of garden features such as furniture and ornamentation, as well as all manner of design styles." Web site includes links to online exhibitions. When you connect to the SIRIS, the Smithsonian's online catalog, change "search all repositories" to "Archives of American Gardens" to limit your search to this collection.

WRITING YOUR PAPER

Art Reserve N7476 .B37 1997
Barnet, Sylvan. A Short Guide to Writing About Art. 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1997.
Earlier editions are available in the stacks at the same call number.

N7476 .B37 1997
Sayre, Henry M. Writing About Art. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989.

Citation Formats for Bibliographies & Footnotes

Reference Tools: Style Manuals. Smith College Libraries. September 2001.
Links to online versions MLA, Chicago, APA, and other popular manuals for writing papers and preparing manuscripts. All include instructions and examples of footnote and bibliography formats

Art Reference PN171.D37 L5 1996
Li, Xia and Nancy B. Crane. Electronic Styles: A Handbook for Citing Electronic Information. 2nd ed. Medford, N.J.: Information Today, 1996.
Includes citation formats for full-text databases (individual works, books, monographs or full-length works, periodicals), bibliographic databases, electronic conferences (Interest Groups) or bulletin board services (BBS), electronic mail (personal), computer programs.

Art Reference PN171.F56 W35 1998
Walker, Janice R., and Taylor, Todd. The Columbia Guide to Online Style. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
"Presents a guide to locating, translating, and using the elements of citation for both a humanities style (i.e., MLA and Chicago) and a scientific style (APA and CBE) for electronically-accessed sources." An abbreviated guide, Basic CGOS, is available online.

CONTACT THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN

Contact Barbara Polowy, the instructor for your library session: bpolowy@email.smith.edu, Bell Hall 228, X2941.

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