Photography: Home
Visual and Media Arts
Useful resources
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Citing Sourcesstyle guides & examples for reference lists (aka bibliographies).
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Government Resourcesdata, census, info about federal, state, & local government, & cool stuff
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Knowledge Markethelp with writing, research, presentations, and data
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Resource MarketGuides, definitions of academic jargon, and helpful links created by Knowledge Market consultants
Department Links
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Photography Majorinfo from the Department of Visual & Media Arts
Library Basics
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Library Search Tutorial 2019Using the "Find articles, books, & more" box like a pro
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How to Find a BookThis video walks you through the process of searching for a book and identifying its location.
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Building a Search StrategyThis tutorial explains how to best develop a search strategy before searching the catalog or databases. These concepts are universal and apply to any catalog, database, or internet search engine.
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Requesting Books, Journals in Print Form, and DVDs
While many articles & ebooks are online, some are in the robotic book retrieval system (official name = Automated Storage Retrieval System or ASRS) behind the Service Desk on the 1st floor.
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Practice Good Information Hygiene: Sanitize before You Share
Just adopt the four quick and easy steps below to help stop the spread of COVID-19 misinformation. If we sanitize the process around our information habits, we can prevent misleading and false content — some of which is hazardous to our health — from being widely shared and potentially doing harm.
Welcome!
This guide's purpose is to provide resources for students doing research in photography. For additional resources, see the Art & Art History Subject Guide 
About articles: types, parts, publication process, evaluating
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Picking Your Topic IS Research
A video on the process of picking and refining a topic, from the North Carolina State University Libraries.
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From Idea To Library (article creation & publication process)What is an article vs a journal?
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Academic Research & Publishing Processby Kathryn Everson: her hand-drawn images show the research, submitting, review, and revision processes that apply to all types of research, not just scientific!
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Types of Publications
Are your information sources scholarly, peer-reviewed, academic, trade, popular? Definitions and examples of the differences.
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How to evaluate information
Infographic gives critical thinking guidelines from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
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One Perfect Source?
Your topic seemed so great! So why can't you find any information on it? If you're looking for an all-in-one source that addresses your topic perfectly, you might need a different approach.
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Anatomy of a Scholarly ArticleA guide on how to identify scholarly articles & their parts
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Subject Guide
Amber Dierking
Contact:
240 Mary Idema Pew Library
dierkina@gvsu.edu
dierkina@gvsu.edu
Subjects:Art & Design, Classics, Film & Video, French, German, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Photography
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- Last Updated: Sep 27, 2020 6:51 PM
- URL: https://libguides.gvsu.edu/photography
