This Research Guide provides suggested library resources for the visual arts such as Books, E-books, and Databases with articles and images pertaining to the visual arts.
Book Locations: Most circulating art books are located on the third floor of the Brown-Daniel Library. Art books have call numbers ranging from N - NX. Oversize books are in a separate location on the third floor and have an "X" over the call number. Photography books have a "TR" call number. Art reference books are located on the second floor.
Art Journals: Second floor of the Brown-Daniel Library.
Reliable, freely available web sites are also listed.
Databases are for students, faculty, and staff of Tennessee State University to use to find journal articles, images, and other information relative to their research interest. To access databases and eJournals off campus you must use your user name and password. For assistance with problem logins, contact Colette Bradley (cbradley@tnstate.edu) or at 615-963-5489.
Is a highly selective digital library of academic content in many formats and disciplines. The collections include top peer-reviewed scholarly journals as well as respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and primary sources. The library has the entire Arts & Sciences Collection, the Life Sciences Collection and Business Journal IV. We have both archival and current subscriptions.
Looking for a book or article that we don't have? You may be able to acquire it through interlibrary loan. Located uder "Quick Links."
Interlibrary loan allows us to borrow resource materials on your behalf from almost any libray in the nation. Although some libraries charge a fee for this service, we will make every effort to borrow only from those that do not charge for this service.
Citation Tools and Resources (The Chicago Manual of Style)
How to Do Effective Library Research
Choose or Identify a Topic An idea for a topic should always be discussed with your instructor.A topic can be viewed much like the scientific method in which a new perspective is developed or knowledge is added. This is generally considered to include 1) definition of a problem to be investigated, 2) collection of initial data, 3) use of data to form a theory or hypothesis explaining the problem 4) further collection of data to verify or modify the hypothesis through observation or experiment, 5) testing the data, and 6) interpreting the results to determine how it relates to the initial problem.
Citing Sources of InformationThe library owns several style manuals to help you properly cite sources of information. The instructor should recommend a format for your research paper which will include any of the following: