Focus
Relevance
Research Methods
- Visual practice, experiment, interest and enquiry (research and critical diaries
questionnaires
- Interviews
Literature search
- Books (generally academic books are A5)
- Journals (largely text - bibliography's at the end)
- websites blogs
- Videos / dvds
- Cds tape cassetts vinyls records
- TV Radio
- Newspapers / maps / records
- Printed ephemera - i.e flyers / posters / beer mats
Literature search 2
- Knowing where to look most effectively
- Effective use of catalogs
---- narrowing and broadening search terms
---- using related terms
---- browsing using Dewey Decimal Classification
- Use of contents page and index
- Reading the introduction or abstract
- Using a books own bibliography to inform further reading
Books Search
- LCA / Leeds Met / Leeds Uni
- British Library in Boston Spa
- COPAC copac.ac.uk
