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TEACHING PRESENTATION

Thea Evenstad Emporia State University SLIM, Spring 2012 LI837 Teaching in the Information Professions

THE INSTRUCTIONAL SCENARIO


You are all first year students at the University of Oregon who have signed up for a First-year Interest Group (FIG) called Urban Garden where you are taking LA 260 Understanding Landscapes, GEOG 141 The Natural Environment, and LA 199 College Connections.

Your Landscape Architecture professor has asked me, the Landscape Architecture librarian, to present a session to help you with your final project.

YOUR FINAL PROJECT IN LA 260


Design a walled garden in model form. Construct your idealized paradise garden.

Keep in mind the themes you have learned this term from readings and lectures (example: landscape as control). Be prepared to present your model and the architects/movements/places that inspired it (information in at least two different formats)

Photo credit: http://www.vacationhomes.net/blog/2012/05/28/top-10-tourist-attractions-in-barcelona,-spain/

DISCOVERING NEW LANDSCAPES


How to use the librarys resources to save time when searching for landscape architecture information

Thea Evenstad, librarian

WHAT IS THIS?

http://oregondigital.org/u?/artimages,39172

ACTIVITY IN SMALL GROUPS

Quickly form groups of 2 or 3

Questions:

What are 5 formats that landscape architecture information can be found in? How are they different? What are some of the advantages of each of these formats? Are some formats easier to find than others? Why or why not?

PHOTOGRAPHS

Botanical gardens of Padua Source: Pigeat, Jean-Paul. Gardens of the World: Two Thousand Years of Garden Design, English language edition, Paris: Editions Flammarion, 2003

http://oregondigital.org/u?/artimages,9969

WEBSITES

http://www.usna.usda.gov/Gardens/collections/collections.html

BOOKS

Planetary Gardens: the landscape architecture of Gilles Clment by Alessandro Rocca

http://uolibraries.worldcat.org/oclc/233932153

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Olin, Laurie. (2012). Landscapes of the Pacific Northwest and coastal California. Site Lines 7(2), 3-14.

ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS

Casa Mila. Plan of typical upper floor. By Antoni Gaud. Source: Weston, Richard. Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations, New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004

http://oregondigital.org/u?/artimages,39172

SCREENCAST OF IMAGE SEARCH


Using the Art & Architecture Image Collections to browse and search images:

http://screencast.com/t/78RzGPrgm

ACTIVITY IN SMALL GROUPS


Select and organize these elements in your own order

Search UO WorldCat for books using an architects name Choose words to search from image information (creator, geography) in your results Go to the library, browse the relevant shelves, and check out books Search for journal articles in databases Use your resources as inspiration for an amazing final project

Search images in the AAI by keywords (city, subject, etc.) Create your own step Choose an architect, place, or movement to focus on Search Google Images Choose words to search from assignment and lectures

Browse images in the AAI collections by culture or city


Search for architectural drawings by your architect

ONE POSSIBLE RESEARCH STRATEGY


Browse images in the AAI collections by culture or city Choose words to search from assignment and lectures Your goal! Use your resources as inspiration for an amazing final project Search images in the AAI by keywords (city, subject, etc.) Choose words to search from image information (creator, geography) in your results Choose an architect, place, or movement to focus on Search for journal articles in databases

Go to the library, browse the relevant shelves, and check out books

Search UO WorldCat for books using an architects name

WHAT DID YOU LEARN?


Poll Everywhere questions

What information formats will you find in the AAI Digital Collections?

How will you start when you search the Art and Architecture Image collections?

QUESTIONS? CONFUSION? DISCUSSION?


AAI digital collection Research process Library catalog Searching for different formats

Contact me after session at 346-0000

evenstad@uoregon.edu

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