Art Information and the Internet

Lois Swan Jones, PhD, is a professor emeritus in the School of Visual Arts at the University of North Texas, where she was coordinator of the art history program. She has written and lectured extensively on art research methodology. Jones is the author of several books, notably, Art Information: Research Methods and Resources (third edition, 1990) and Art Libraries and Information Services (1986), and she has Jones has been listed in Whos Who in American Art since 1978, and in 1997, she received the Distinguished Service Award from the Art Libraries Society of North America for her contributions to the field of art information research. 2000 Worldwide Books Publication Award, which was presented at the 2000 Annual conference of ARLIS/NA.

Sponsored by ARLIS/NA (Art Libraries Society of North America)Lois Swan Jones has updated and expanded the methodology of her 1990 work, ^LArt Information, to reflect the recent explosive growth in electronic resources. In this new work, Jones shows researchers how to locate art information online and how to supplement it with information in other formats to produce the best possible research results. This work describes the methodology and resources that art researchers need to find and use information on the Internet.

Foreword by Caroline H. BacklundAcknowledgmentsIntroductionBasic Information FormatsElectronic Data and the InternetOther Information Formats and Their Publishers' Web SitesTypes of Web Sites and How to Find ThemWeb Sites of MuseumsWeb Sites of Academic Institutions, Corporate Sponsors, and IndividualsCultural, Civic, and Professional Organizations; National Trusts; and FoundationsWeb Presence of Libraries: Overviews, Search Strategies, and ServicesWeb Sites of Serials and Indexes to Art and LiteratureBuying and Selling ArtHow to Use and Supplement Web InformationBasic Research Methodology: Finding and Supplementing Web DataArt Historical Styles and Periods: Ancient World to Modern EraDocumenting the Lives of Artists and Art CollectorsStudying Works of ArtResources for Architecture, Decorative Arts, Fashion, Graphic Arts, Photography, and SculptureNorth Amrican (U.S.), Canadian, and Native American StudiesNon-European CulturesAdditional Art InformationAppendixesIndex