LSS300: Rethinking Landscape



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LSS300: Rethinking Landscape
Spring 2008 - Nina Antonetti
Reference Contact: Barbara Polowy x2941

GETTING STARTED

Landscape Studies and Art & Architecture Library Subject Pages
Links to resources covering a wide variety of art and architecture topics (some resources are available only to members of the Smith College community).

Find Images
Sources for finding images in print and electronic sources, information about evaluating the quality of the images and data about them, and legal considerations for using images in educational settings, in publications and other public presentations.

Art Reference SB450.95 .E52 2001
Shoemaker, Candice A., ed. Encyclopedia of Gardens: History and Design. 3 vols. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
See Elizabeth R. Messer-Diehl's article, "Hospital Garden" which includes a selected bibliography on the broader topic of theraputic gardens.

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.

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

Map Resources
Links to a wide variety of online maps and other geographic tools, both current and historical (some resources are available only to members of the Smith College community).

Digital Sanborn Maps [use with IE or Netscape, will not work with Firefox]
Large-scale maps of cities and towns drawn to the scale of 50 feet to an inch. Maps give an "outline of each building, the size and shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors ... street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. Textual information includes construction details, ownership and building use." Smith's subscription covers maps from 1867 to 1970 for cities and towns in Massachusetts, New York, California, the District of Columbia, and Illinois.

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).

FINDING BOOKS, CATALOGS & OTHER MONGRAPHS

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 items in all formats held in thousands of libraries throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. 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 & Popular Media

Find News
Links to a wide variety of online news sources, both current and historical (some resources are available only to members of the Smith College community).

Forbes Library
Hampshire Gazette
Microform copies and subject indexes (printed, card catalog, online format) to this long-running local newspaper are available for on-site use.

Gazettenet
Online version of the Daily Hampshire Gazette.

Holyoke Public Library.
Microfilm copies of Holyoke Transcript (1882 to January 1926), Holyoke Telegram (1912 to 1922), Holyoke Transcript-Telegram (1926 to 1993), Springfield Union News (1993- ).

LexisNexis Academic & LexisNexis Environmental
Provides access to a wide range of local, regional, and national newpapers (through the current day), other news sources, and business, legal, and reference information. Coverage varies by title, but many start around 1985.

Proquest Historical Newspapers and American Periodical Series
Provides the full text, including all editorial and advertising images, of The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post (up to the most recent 10 years) and "over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals" as pdf and html files.

Readers Guide Retrospective
Comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflecting the history of 20th century America. Covers 1890 to 1982.

Architecture & Design

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

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.

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. For coverage from 1974 to 1982 consult bound volumes of Social Sciences Index at Neilson Reference AI3.S6.

NORTHAMPTON-AREA LOCAL HISTORY & ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS

Smith College Archives
"The College Archives houses an unusually rich collection of material documenting the history of Smith College from the 1860s to the present."

Forbes Library, 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, the Walter Corbin Collection, Judd Manuscript, Hampshire Gazette negatives, Elbridge Kingsley collection ... and Seth Pomeroy's Journal, which is now available in a digital facsimile edition." Open limited hours; call 413-587-1014 or email localhistory@forbeslibrary.org to make an appointment to use the collection.

Goodwin Memorial Library, Hadley
"Items relating to Hadley's history are currently housed on the upper floor of the library. To make an appointment to view the collection, leave contact information on the Historical Society answering machine (413-587-2623) or call the Library for more information."

Historic Northampton
Provides online bibliographies, virtual exhibitions, other documentation of Northampton and surrounding towns.

Holyoke History Room, Holyoke Public Library.
In addition to newspaper resources, this substantial local history collection includes city directories, public records, photograph and ephemera collections, business archives.

Jones Library, Amherst, Special Collections
"... extensive collections in the fields of local and regional history.... Appointments for conducting research are not necessary but are strongly encouraged."

Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
Museum and collections documenting the Deerfield area.

INTERNET RESOURCES

"American Memory, Collection Finder." Library of Congress. Available: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html. February 13, 2008.
Includes great a variety of digitized resources for the study of the American culture and history including maps, plans, photographs, archival and published materials.

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. February 13, 2008.
The guide is selective, but extensive, with an emphasis on quality sites.

CITING YOUR SOURCES

helps researchers gather, manage, store, and generate citations and bibliographies. Smith faculty, staff & students have access on the web without charge.

Set up a personal Refworks account
Technical assistance from ITS on getting started and using the program
Sign up for one of David Podboy's Refworks workshop in the Neilson classroom on 2/26, 3:30-5:00pm or 2/27, 7:00-8:30pm
Help for using RefWorks with library databases

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."

CONTACTS FOR RESEARCH ASSISTANCE

Barbara Polowy, art librarian:
bpolowy@email.smith.edu, 121 Hillyer Art Library, X2941.
Pamela Skinner, reference librarian for history:
pskinner@email.smith.edu, Neilson Library, X2961
Sika Berger, reference librarian for government and law:
sberger@email.smith.edu, Neilson Library, X2963
Nanci Young, college archivist:
nyoung@email.smith.edu, Alumnae Gym, X2976
Julie Bartlett, local history librarian, Forbes Library (Northampton's public Library):
jbartlett@forbeslibrary.org, 587-1014. Available Monday & Wednesday from 3:00 to 9:00, Tuesday & Thursday from 1:00 to 5:00
Elise Feeley, local history librarian, Forbes Library (Northampton's public Library):
587-1012. Available Friday from 1:00 to 5:00, Saturday from 10:00 to 5:00

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Last Updated: February 20, 2008