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Hi Coco
We are doing much the same thing here at the University of B.C. Fine Arts
Library. We have just, for instance, organized what we are going to be
doing for our large classes in Architecture and in Community and Regional
Planning. These classes have to get the basics and we don't concentrate as
much on using the library for inspiration.
We do, however, concentrate on inspiration with our fine arts or our
theatre students.
For them, we stress using a variety of approaches, i.e. creative use of
the resources. For example, for theatre we might use the following:
l. books on costume, set design, lighting, etc. (the typical tradiitional
approach, but useful)
2. original source material (we bring in lots of examples for the students
to handle - they love this stuff),i.e.
-journals of the period (whatever their period may be)Include things
like Ackerman's repository because it has fabric swatches in it from the
19th century
-photographs
-paintings and portraits
-play reviews
3. historical surveys (they usually never thought of this approach)
- by country
- by time period (artistic styles)
- by medium (try something different, such as a book on period rooms
4. iconography (theme) (books on iconography are somewhat a new idea for
many students)
5. collections (lots of scope here)
-museums (National Portrait Gallery or theatre costumes in the Victoria
and Albert Museum - perhaps....)
-picture collections
-library collections (the idea of using other libraries such as the
Dictionary Catalog of the Dance Collection. "world's your oyster" type of
stuff.
6.indexes (print and online)You could include here the Costume Index, the
World Painting Index, the Photography Index, Art Index, BHA....)
7.internet resources (Alta Vista images, good sites such as the Costume
Page..)
Other ideas that have been successful in our "inspirational" mode have
been to show a wonderful print facsimile of the Book of Kells (original
done in the 8th century) along with an e-book. Students love
juxtapositions - old and new, that sort of thing.
We use lots of handouts. We get them moving around when possible. We
prefer hands-on with online demos. We prefer to have 2 instructors per
class and change from one to the other frequently so there is no boredom.
Well, we hope not anyway.
I hope these ideas help out somewhat. We are also open to suggestions
which may help us.
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Diana E.M. Cooper 604-822-3943
Fine Arts Reference Librarian
Fine Arts Library
University of British Columbia
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