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Hello ARLIS members, I am wondering if you might have some suggestions for me. At my art and design school library, I frequently field reference questions concerning identifying artists working with a certain topic or issue. My current request is for artists doing work on/about their mothers, communicating with their mothers or their mothers illness, mental or physical. Other recent examples includes maps, compost and memory. Subject headings in article databases and library catalogs are generally too broad to be helpful, especially if it is only a part of an artist's work or I am looking for contemporary artists. I can usually find a few artists, but I am frequently left with an unsatisfactory feeling that my search was missing some good examples. I know this type of question will keeping coming up. I have this fantasy of a magic database of artists that I can search with keywords and it isn't Google! Any ideas or strategies? Kind Regards, Amy Amy Naughton Public Services Librarian Minneapolis College of Art and Design ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~