A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RESOURCES AT THE HENRY G. BENNETT LIBRARY ON THE SUBJECT OF HUMANITIES SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY (before 1800)

Encyclopedia of World Art R 703 En1o
This  large reference work was originally published in Italian, and has been translated to English and published over a period of many years, from 1959 to 1983.  It contains coverage of art, such as painting, sculpture and architecture.  The scope of this work is universal, indeed, in the preface to Volume one it says: "No limits of any kind have been set with regard to time, place, or cultural environment of the manifestations of artistic interest: Every aspect, from the most distant prehistoric times to the present day, from the art of the great centers of civilization to the products of primitive peoples, has been considered." 

Dictionary of Art R 7703 D56
This massive 34 volume set, published in 1996, is a sister publication to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and it is a massive reference work of the highest standards of scholarship. It contains some 45,000 articles on all aspects of art, including: the decorative arts, architecture, photography, painting, sculpture, and more. It contains over 20,000 biographies from all periods of history, with there being more biographies for the twentieth century than for earlier periods of art history. About 17,000 of these biographies are of particular kinds of artists, such as: painters, sculptors, architects, illuminators, draughtsmen, silversmiths, cabinetmakers, potters, industrial designers, and more. There are also over 3000 biographies on art patrons, collectors, dealers, theorists, writers, art historians, museum officials, and teachers, and critics. It contains articles on art all the countries of the world, and entries on major cities with significant art traditions.

The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1990s R 700 R27o
This book is an index to classical mythology in the arts. It is an encyclopedic catalog of art-works dating from the early Renaissance to the 1990s that include subjects from Greek and Roman mythology. It is organized by character, and includes  works in the fine arts, music, dance, and literature that were created since 1300.

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians R 780.3 N42s
This is an excellent source for music.  The original edition was published by Sir George Grove in the 1870's. The edition, the sixth edition, was published in 1980. This set contains articles of composers and other music-related personages, terminology, cities and towns with significant musical traditions, musical concepts and heritage. The focus is on European music, but there are entries on the music of every country in the world.

The Encyclopedia of World Biography  R 920.02 W17b2
This set contains biographical information on about 7,000 people, past and present who have made "contributions to human culture and society, have reputations that stand the test of time."

Timeline of the Arts and Literature R 700.202 B82t
This work is a chronological history of the cultural side of human history.  It is divided into major cultural classifications, such as:  (1) literature, including fiction, poetry, biography. and belles-lettres, (2) the visual arts, including painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, graphics, design, (3) performing arts, including theater, variety, music, and dance.

Dictionary of the Middle Ages R 909.07 D56s
This reference work contains articles on the historical time period of 500AD to 1500AD, known as the medieval or middle ages, or the dark ages. The area covered includes the Latin West, the Slavic world, Asia Minor, the lands of the caliphate in the East, and  the Muslem-Christian areas of North Africa. period of 500AD to 1500AD. It is published by the American Council of Learned Societies.

The Times Atlas of World History R 911 H18t4
This atlas contains maps and illustrations that show the history of the world in broad strokes.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas   R 903 D56
This set contains the history of ideas about the external order of nature, the history of ideas about human nature, the history of ideas in literature and art, the history of religious and philosophical ideas, and the history of formal mathematical, logical, linguistic and methodological ideas.
 

A Chronology of Western Architecture   R 720.9 Y2c
This book covers architecture styles from 2000 BC to the present day,  including styles from the Greek, Roman Byzantine, Romanesque, early Christian, Gothic Renaissance, and Baroque. Geographically it is concerned with Western  Europe and North America.

The Timetables of History  R 902.0202 G92t3
This source contains a chronological history of the world from 4500 BC to the 1990's.  The timeline is actually seven timelines of (1). history and politics, (2)literature and theater, (3)religion, philosophy, learning, (4) visual arts, (5)music, (6) science, technology, growth and (7) Daily life.

Humanities Index (paper) (Basement)
Index/database to articles, written 1974 to the present, appearing in several hundred journals in the humanities, including history.

EBSCOHost (Internet)
A group of databases allowing subject or keyword searches to access articles from broad range of periodicals.

Art Index(basement)
This is an index to around 300 journals, museum bulletins, and yearbooks, in the areas of: archaeology, architecture, art history, crafts, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, photography & films, and related subjects

ArtNews
This monthly magazine contains international and national art news, reviews of books on art, news and biographical information on artists, advertisements of exhibits, and more.

Art Journal
This quarterly journal is published by the College Art Association, and contains articles on art topics, exhibition reviews, book reviews, and an exhibition catalogue.

Artforum
This monthly magazine contains articles about art and artists, exhibition reviews. It is indexed in Humanities Index.

History Today
This monthly magazine contains articles about topics in world history. The library has this publication from 1951 to 1997

History: The Journal of the Historical Association
This journal is published at Oxford University and contains historical articles. The library has this publication from 1957 to the present.

Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies
This journal contains articles on the medieval period of history. The library has this journal from 1955 to 1996.

Journal of the American Musicological Society
   This journal contains articles pertaining to the history of music. The library has this journal from 1976 to the present.

The Renaissance Quarterly
This journal is published by the Renaissance Society of America, and contains articles and reviews of books on the renaissance period of history

Journal of the History of Ideas

Introduction to Internet Resources

There are millions of Internet sites now. Each site has an address on the Internet. That address is called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). After each Internet history site mentioned in this list, there will be the URL, location, or address of the site on the Internet. When you want to access a site on this list, type in the address which appears after the letters URL. You must type in the address exactly as it appears. If you do not, you will not access the site. DO NOT TYPE IN URL.
 

Internet Search Tools

There are far too many sites out there on the Internet to be able to find what you want effectively and quickly without some search tool. There are two main types of search tools available: search, engines and, directories. A search engine is a database of Internet sites. There are many different search engines out on the Internet now, and more seem to be popping up all the time. This is a list of some of the search engines that are available:
 
 

Alta Vista

URL: http://www.altavista.digital.com
This search engine is one of the newer ones, but it is popular. It handles about 12 million HTTP requests per day. It was developed by Digital Corp, in 1995 and it contains the full-text of over 30 million web pages. It does not offer reviews of web sites.

URL: http://www.excite.com
Excite came into existence in late 1995. Early in 1996 it had only 1.5 million pages. But it has grown a lot recently. It now contains the full text of about 55 million web pages in its index. This search engines also offers a directory of web sites by topic.

URL: http://www.hotbot.com/
This search engine was developed at the University of California at Berkeley by Inktomi and HotWired, and came into existence in May 1996. It has about 55 million web documents in its index.

URL: http://www.lycos.com
This is one of the older search engines on the web that dates to May 1994. Contains summaries only of about 19 million web pages. It also includes FTP sites and gopher sites. It offers reviews of web sites and also a directory for those who like to browse that way. In the spring of 1997, Lycos unleashed its new search engine, LycosPro. It claims to have the full text of 100 million web pages in its index, making it the largest.

URL: http://www.metacrawler.com
This search service does not have its own database. Rather, it relies on nine other search engines to perform its searches: OpenText, Lycos, WebCrawler, Infoseek, Excite, Inktomi, Alta Vista, Yahoo and Galaxy. When a search is performed, MetaCrawler sorts and displays the results in a uniform format, getting rid of duplicates pulled from each search engine.

If you prefer to browse through subject directories of resources on the Internet, then you may like the following sites better than the search engine sites listed above. Each one of the following sites classifies sites by subject or some other arrangement.

Free Internet Encyclopedia

URL: http://clever.net/cam/encyclopedia.html
This is an attempt to organize Internet resources in an encyclopedia format. It is organized like the Encyclopedia Britannica, and instead of articles on topics, like a regular encyclopedia, it contains a listing of subjects, and links to sites that contain information on that subject.

URL: http://www.yahoo.com
One of the oldest search engines on the web. It was begun by two graduate students at Stanford University, and now has gone commercial. It is listed here under directories because that is mainly what it is -- a subject directory of Internet sites. However, you can also search using a search engine.

URL: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/psc/

The Getty Research Institute Web site (sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Trust) supports scholarship and research into the visual arts, architecture, and related fields of study on-site in Los Angeles and through the Internet.

The Internet has a vast amount of resources. More and more people are putting information out on the Internet. Many people have set up their own home page on the WWW. How do know that all the information is good? How do you know if the information is factual. There is no control over what goes on the Internet. People can set up information accessible on the Internet that may be full of false ideas, lies, bad data. How do you determine what is good and what is not?

There have been attempts to come up with criteria to evaluate material on the Internet. Librarians have been involved in this process. The following guidelines were obtained at a meeting of the Oklahoma Bibliographic Instruction Council Meeting in November of 1995.

A. Purpose -- The purpose of the Internet site should be clear from the title or introductory screens. Can you tell what the purpose is? Is there any bias?

B. Authority -- Is the site maintained by a well-known association or governmental agency? Does the site supply the source of the information?

C. Scope -- How current is the information? Some information at some sites is rarely updated. How old is the site? Some sites are here today, and gone tomorrow.

D. Audience -- Who is the site meant for? A layperson or specialist?

Not all of these criteria can be used at each site. Sometimes the information to answer the questions above is not available. But these 4 criteria can be useful to evaluate Internet sites

InterLibrary Loan:

In your study and research in many topics, you are not limited to just the materials that are at the SE library. If you find a citation to a book or periodical article that the SE Library does not have, then you can fill out a slip of paper at the circulation desk, and the Library will send the request to other libraries that have the item. Then the library that has the item will send it to the SE library and you may use the item. Also, it takes anywhere from one to three weeks for interlibrary loan materials to arrive.