ARTEDUC 2600: Visual Culture: Investigating Diversity & Social Justice

Searching for books in library catalogs and databases can feel a little different than using Google or another general search engine. Usually, if you are searching for something that has multiple parts or concepts, it is a good idea to break those into keywords using the advanced search function. For instance, a search for books on social justice, diversity, and the arts may look something like this:

• art AND "social justice"
• "visual culture" AND "social justice"
• art AND race AND "social justice"
• art AND gender 
• art AND gender AND change
• art AND protest

You'll notice once you find a book that looks good to you in the catalog, that the record includes subject headings that look a little different than the keywords you used to conduct your search, but related to them. Most of the time, you can click on those headings and see if there are more books at OSU Libraries with the same subject attached. Some related to Arts Admin, Education, & Policy look like this: 

• Arts -- Study and teaching -- United States
• Arts -- Management
• Arts -- Economic aspects

If you click on one, it will show you how many items in the library system also have that subject heading, as well as similar, but slightly different, other subject headings. This can be a really good way to gather relevant resources during the research stage of your paper.