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LSS200:
Socialized Landscapes
Spring
2008 - Nina Antonetti
Reference
Contact: Barbara Polowy x2941
Getting
Started
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Finding Books |
Finding
Articles |
Archival
Resources
Internet
Resources
| Citing
Your Sources
GETTING STARTED
Landscape
Studies, Art
& Architecture, and Find Images Library Subject Pages
Provide links to resources covering a wide variety of landscape studies
topics (some resources are available only to members of the Smith College
community).
Barker,
Joe. Critical Evaluation of Resources. University of California
Berkeley Library. Last updated October 1, 2007.
Available at: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Evaluation.html
Reference
Sources
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
but addresses the subject in sections of general articles about the arts
of civilizations and countries as well as an extensive article on urban
planning. It also includes articles about types of landscapes (e.g.,
Park,
Shopping
Centre) and practitioners (e.g., Frederick
Law Olmsted, Victor
Gruen) Each article is supplemented by a bibliography of major primary
and secondary sources.
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.
FINDING BOOKS, CATALOGS & OTHER MONGRAPHS
Useful
Library of Congress subject headings for LSS200 project research include:
- General
Public spaces | Open areas | Recreation areas
City planning | Urban beautification | Cities and towns
Human ecology | Human geography
Landscape assessment | Land use
Landscape architecture | Landscape design | Urban landscape architecture
Gardens | Landscape gardening | Arboretums
- Place
Names
Northampton (Mass.) | Vancouver (B.C.) |
- Site
Names
Frank Newhall Look Memorial Park | Central Park (New York, N.Y.) | Appalachian
Trail | Dupont Circle (Washington, D.C.) | Smith College. Botanical
Gardens
- Types
of Landscapes, Gardens, & Other Sites
Parks | Amusement parks | Historic sites | National parks and reserves
Plazas | Shopping malls | Commercial strips | Central business districts
Cemeteries | Campus planning
Garden cities | Greenbelts | Greenways
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.
WorldCat
WorldCat
is universal in subject scope and includes records for over 49 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
News
Forbes
Library Reference Section
Hampshire
County Newspapers
Indexes to the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Hampshire County Journal,
Northampton Courier, Northampton Democrat, and other local papers
published during late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and microform
copies of these papers are available for on-site use.
AccuNet/AP
Multimedia Archive
Current year's photos from the Associated Press photo library and over
750,000 photos dating from the 1840s to the present.
LexisNexis
Academic & LexisNexis
Environmental
Provides access to a wide range of local, regional, and national newspapers
(through the current day), other news sources, and business, legal, and
reference information.
Proquest
Historical Newspapers
Provides the full text, including all images and advertisements, of the
New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times up to
the most recent 10 years as PDF and text files. Some gaps in coverage.
Art,
Architecture & Design
Art
Abstracts and Art
Index Retrospective
These two databases cover all aspects of the visual arts, including landscape
architecture, architecture, and planning, providing cover to cover indexing
of over 400 periodicals published throughout the world. Art Abstracts
covers 1984 to the present, Art Index Retrospective covers 1929
to 1984. Updated monthly.
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.
Other
Disciplines
American
History and Life
Indexes 1,700 journals, books, and dissertations for material about American
and Canadian history. Other subjects covered include popular culture,
anthropology, sociology, economics, education, and politics. 1953 to present.
Social
Sciences Abstracts
Abstracts
of articles published from 1983 to the present from over 550 periodicals.
Includes articles, interviews, obituaries, biographies, and book reviews
on anthropology, political science, economics, psychology, geography,
and sociology.
ARCHIVES
& LOCAL HISTORY RESOURCES
Smith
College
Smith
College Archives
The College Archives houses a rich and varied collection of material documenting
the history of Smith from the 1860s to the present. The collections include
material about campus buildings (both extant and demolished), the landscape
masterplan, individual gardens and other campus features. The archives
is located on Level A of Alumnae Gym and is open on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday,
Friday from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. and on Wednesday from 1 P.M. to 9 P.M.
Botanic
Garden of Smith College.
Website provides brief descriptions and plans of the Smith campus and
its major gardens including the Woodland Garden, Capen Garden, Japanese
Garden, Systematic Garden and Perennial Border.
Northampton
Forbes
Library. Special Collections
"The Hampshire Room for Local History and Special Collections ...
houses extensive resources in local history, genealogy, and a large collection
of historic Northampton photographs. Highlights of the Hampshire Room
collections include account books and town papers, maps, manuscripts,
stereoscopes ... "
Historic
Northampton
Located at 46 Bridge Street (downtown), Historic Northampton is a local
history museum and three houses [original to Northampton] dating from
the 18th and 19th centuries. It is open Tuesday through Friday from 10
A.M. until 4 P.M. and on weekends from Noon until 4 P.M. "The museum's
wide-ranging collection includes more than 10,000 photographs, documents
and manuscripts from the 17th to the 20th centuries ..." Researchers
are welcome, but need to call ahead and make an appointment to
use the library and archival collections.
INTERNET
RESOURCES
"American
Memory, Collection Finder." Library of Congress. Available: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html.
Accessed February 11, 2008.
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.
Brown,
Jeanne. "Architecture and Building Internet Resource Guide." Established
1993, last updated February 10, 2008. Online. University of Nevada, Las
Vegas Architecture Studies Library. Available: http://library.nevada.edu/arch/rsrce/webrsrce/contents.html.
Accessed February 11, 2008.
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.
Google
Earth
Geographic
information (down to the level of street addresses) for sites around the
globe combining recent satellite imagery, maps, and other data (demographic,
economic, commercial).
Spiro
The environmental design image database of the Architecture Visual Resources
Library,
University of California, Berkeley. Includes over 250,000 images. Thumbnails
only, but a useful finding tool for many landscape studies topics.
CITING
YOUR SOURCES
helps
researchers gather, manage, store, and generate citations and bibliographies.
Smith faculty, staff & students have access on the web without charge.
Style
Manuals & Citation Guides. Smith College Libraries. January
25, 2008.
Links to online versions MLA, Chicago, and other popular manuals for writing
papers, preparing manuscripts, and formatting footnote and bibliography
citations.
Art
Reference Z253 .U69 2003 Online
Edition
The Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2003.
Completely searchable online version of this important style manual, providing
quick answers to style, editing, and citation format questions (for print
and electronic sources).
Neilson
Reference Desk PN171 .F56 W35 2006
Walker, Janice R., and Todd Taylor. The Columbia Guide to Online Style.
2nd ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
"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."
CONTACT
THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN
Contact
Barbara Polowy, the art librarian and instructor for your library session:
bpolowy@email.smith.edu,
121 Hillyer Art Library, X2941.
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QUESTIONS
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