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Thea Evenstad Emporia State University SLIM, Spring 2012 LI837 Teaching in the Information Professions
Your Landscape Architecture professor has asked me, the Landscape Architecture librarian, to present a session to help you with your final project.
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)
WHAT IS THIS?
http://oregondigital.org/u?/artimages,39172
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
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
http://screencast.com/t/78RzGPrgm
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
Go to the library, browse the relevant shelves, and check out books
What information formats will you find in the AAI Digital Collections?
How will you start when you search the Art and Architecture Image collections?
evenstad@uoregon.edu