Reappropriation/Re-use in the Arts: e-Catalogs

1. "Catalog" tab to the Duke Libraries catalog

• Use your natural language to find ONE book that's relevant.
• Click the title of that book
• Scroll down to the "subjects" and look for the library term/subject it groups under your topic
• Click the hyperlink of that topic and get ALL the works we have on your topic!

Example:

1. Key words (i.e., natural language)   REPETION ART

2. select the first book that appears (even just generally) to be on your topic

3.  Book:  On Repetition, Writing, Performance

4.  Use the subject headings assigned to the book to find like topics   REPETION (ESTHETICS)

2. Google Books & Google Scholar

Google Books allows you to search books by key-word.  It does not display the whole book.  Use LIBX.

Google Scholar is the same but for articles.

Worldcat - combined catalog of all libraries

Use Worldcat to locate exhibition catalogs and books for interlibrary loan and archives of collections.  There's a "libraries with this item" link that shows NC libraries first.

Virtual Catalogue for Art History (www.artlibraries.net) - consortial catalog of the large specialty art libraries (mostly art museums libraries), including Met, MoMA, and major foreign institutions.  Helpful because subject is only art(s); interlibrary-loan is not possible, but this catalog confirms the existence of items possibly obtainable through other methods.

Arcade - The collections of the Frick Art Reference Library, the Brooklyn Museum Library and The Museum of Modern Art Library.

https://archive.org/details/metmuseumlibraries