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GETTING STARTED

Use the Library's Research page as your point of departure: http://library.ucsc.edu/research.html

Before starting your search, take a look at the "How to Get Started" page: http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/
Especially useful for this assignment are the sections on evaluating information on the web, distinguishing between primary and secondary sources and citations styles.

In order to have off-campus access to all of the databases that will be useful for this assignment, make sure that you follow the instructions on how to set up your computer to connect to the library from home: http://library.ucsc.edu/services/sluglink/

USING CRUZCAT (http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu/)

A keyword search is probably the easiest way to get started. Once you find some titles that are useful, click on the Library of Congress subject headings to search further.

For this assignment, the following subject headings might be useful--they are just a sample of relevant subject headings that you might want to look at:

Please note: Professor Kamehiro has placed a number of books on Reserve for this class.

REFERENCE TITLES

Listed below are the books found in McHenry Reference that were discussed in our Library session:

• Grove Dictionary of Art (also The Dictionary of Art [REF N31 .D5 1996])
• Tribal and ethnic art, modern art bibliographic series (REF N5311 .T74 1982)
• The Oxford companion to Aboriginal art and culture (REF NX590 .A1 O94 2000)
• The encyclopedia of religion, 2nd edition (REF BL31 .E46 2005)
• Historical dictionary of European imperialism (REF D217 .H57 1991)
• Hawaiians (also, eHRAF collection of ethnography. Oceania)
• Pacific Islands: an encyclopedia (REF DU17 .P33 2000)
• Encyclopedia of New Zealand (REF DU400 M24)
• The Encyclopaedia of Papau and New Guinea (REF DU740 .E4)
• The Australian encyclopedia (REF DU90 .A82 1977)
  
• Australians (REF DU110 .A885 1987)
• The Australian people (REF DU120 .A87 2001)

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

Once you have browsed the print reference materials, you will be better prepared for searching the electronic databases. Some of the databases listed below contain bibliographic citatations, others contain full-text.

Full text databases:

• Project Muse
• JSTOR

Bibliographic databases:

• Historical Abstracts
• Anthropology Plus
• Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological Institute
• Art Full Text or Art Retrospective
• Bibliography of the History of Art

Additional art-related resources can be found on the Art Subject Guide. Please ask for help at the McHenry reference desk.