HY 200 Islamic Cities

Library Research Guide

Library instruction provided for Professor Jane Murphy’s Block 1, 2009 class.

Working with your Librarian

Colorado College students describe the benefits of working with their librarian.

Today’s techniques to practice:

Make sure to Ask A Librarian while working on this project.

Register for ILLiad and receive articles (electronically) from other libraries.

Finding Images, Maps, etc.

ARTstor

Coverage: Prehistory - current

Hundreds of thousands of digital images with descriptive information covering painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, architecture, and design, as well as many other forms of worldwide visual culture. Save groups of images for later use in ARTstor, or download or print to use in class projects, presentations, and papers. First-time users must register for an account from a computer on campus.

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive

Coverage: 1826 - current

Over one million photographs provided by the Associated Press.

Google Image Search

The Commons on Flickr

Archnet
Promoted as “an online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world.” Includes the Dictionary of Islamic Architecture in the references section and many images that can be searched in a variety of ways.

ArtServe: Australian National University
Over 19,000 images of architecture and architectural sculpture of the Mediterranean Basin, a small selection and brief survey of Islamic architecture, and a searchable book on Greek and Roman Cities of Western Turkey.

Pattern in Islamic Art
“Offers more than 4000 free downloadable images of such patterns as used in the decoration of Islamic architecture. Photo-archive, drawings, diagrams and analyses, background notes, and previously published material.

THAIS – 40 Centuries of Architecture
Images of Egyptian, Greek, Islamic and Romanesque architecture, indexed by location, subject, and period. Language: Italian/English.

Cities and Buildings Database
Images of buildings in more than 30 countries. Access is geographically arranged.

Oriental Institute Museum Photographic Archives
/OI/MUS/PA/OI_PA.html
Middle East Photography Archive from Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

Finding Images in Books

To find images (illustrations, photographs, drawings, etc) in books, you can search the TIGER Catalog or Prospector and combine your topical keywords with words or phrases such as:

• pictorial works
• illustrations or ill.
• colored plates or col. pl.
• photographs or photography
• images
• architecture
• art, etc.

Try searching “Cairo and pictorial works” or “Istanbul and architecture”.

Additional help on Finding Images on the Web and in Print

Finding Articles in General Middle Eastern Sources

Index Islamicus

Coverage: 1906 - current

Indexes books, journal articles, conference proceedings about Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Includes the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere.

(Limit searches to English language sources!)

The Encyclopaedia Of Islam

Coverage: historical

Offers basic searching of the full-text of nearly 12,000 pages of volumes I to XI and Supplement (Volume XII) of the print edition.

(Works best using Firefox!)

Finding Contemporary Articles on New Buildings

Art Abstracts

Coverage: 1929 - current

Indexes hundreds of international art journals. Abstracts and some fulltext back to 1984, citations for earlier articles. This is a combined search of Art Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective.

(Search for recent Architecture journal articles. )

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe

Coverage: 1977 - current

Access to popular press material such as newspaper articles. Also contains law review articles.

(Limit to geographical areas)

English-Language Middle Eastern Newspapers online

Middle Eastern and North African Online Newspapers

Electronic Newspaper and Journals on the Middle East

Saudi Aramco World
Click on “Indexes” to get access to older issues searchable by geography, subjects, and titles.

Finding Books

• Search the Tiger Catalog for books available in Tutt Library.

Search TIGER for Keyword Title Author Subject Journal Title Go

Try searching “iraq* and antiquit*”.

• Search Prospector for books available from academic and public libraries in Colorado. Materials can come in as few as 3 days.

• Search Google Books to identify books by words in the text.

Finding Journal Articles

Google Scholar

Historical Abstracts

Coverage: 1967 - current

Covers world history.

JSTOR

Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years

Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.

Finding Full Text Versions of Articles

When searching article indexing databases, sometimes the full text of the article you need is not provided to you by the database. Or you have identified a citation in a bibliography or footnote and need to find the full text. There are two ways of finding the full text of any article that you need.

1. Check Find Journals to see if Tutt Library subscribes to an electronic version of your journal or magazine or if we own databases which may have your article in full text. Find Journals a.k.a Tutt Link is available next to the citations in most of our databases and in GoogleScholar.

1. Request an ILLiad/Interlibrary Loan of your article directly from your database (use button or hotlink) or log into ILLiad and fill out an Interlibrary Loan Request Form. (Articles can come in as few as 24-48 hours.) You must be registered with ILLiad for either method to work – see First Time User Registration for Interlibrary Loan.

Citing Your Sources

How to Cite Sources?

Turabian, Kate L. A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations : Chicago style for students and researchers: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
PE1478 .T8 2007 (1st Floor North-Ref Desk, 1st Floor North-Reference, Permanent Reserves – Circ, Tutt North Basement)

Managing Your Bibliography

RefWorks training every Wed. 1 p.m. @Tutt Library.

Additional Assistance

Contact Reference Desk, 9 a.m. – 10 p.m., x6662, IM=tuttlibrarian

Contact Krystyna Mrozek, Interdisciplinary Programs Librarian, x6669, Tutt Library 201, kmrozek@coloradocollege.edu, IM=tuttkrystyna

Last revised, 9-10-09, km.