Architecture & Urbanism in Montreal

Finding Library Resources

09.27.2018 | 12:15PM | EV.1.605

mailto:jenna.dufour@concordia.ca

SESSION OUTLINE

1. Searching/accessing Resources for your Research

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2. External Research Libraries/Archives

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3. Citation Styles

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Concordia Library

Library catalogue VS Discovery Search

Library Catalogue

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Discovery Search

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Tip:

Books: Concordia Library

Books: Concordia Library

Library call numbers

NNANBNCNDNENKNXTR

Keyword VS Subject Search

●Architecture AND (Montreal OR quebec)

●Architecture and society -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History.

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Books: Concordia Library

Some Subject term examples

Montreal Architecture & History

Montreal Bank Buildings

Montreal Buildings (general)

Old Montreal

Various topics

Books: external to Concordia Library

WorldCat

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Google Books

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Tip:

Concordia Library

Journal Articles

Art + ArchitectureAvery Index to Architectural Periodicals | 1934 -

Documents: jScope:

Art Full Text | 1984; 1994; 1997

DocumentsScope:

Canadian ProQuest Combined Canadian |

CPI-Q: Canadian Periodical Index | 1980; 1995 -

Documents

Journal Articles

Quebec Erudit | 1950s/60s (some 1930s)

Repère | 1980 -

MultidisciplinaryJSTOR | Ithaka

Arts & Humanities |

Google Scholar

News Articles

News (Current)

Eureka |

Canadian Newsstream Complete | 1970s -

News (Historic)

ProQuest: Historical Newspapers | various dates

Paper of Record | 19th/20th century

Google News Archive | 1700s -

Tip:

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.ca/

ANDConnects your conceptsNarrows your search

Montreal AND “city planning”

NOTExcludes certain terms

Quebec NOT Montreal

ORSearch similar terms/synonymsBroadens your search

Montreal or Quebec

* Searches all variations of a root word

architect* = architecture, architectural, architect, architects

“ ” Searches 2+ words together Known as a phrase search

“city beautiful movement”

Note: These search operators can be used in the library catalogue to find books and media items, and in databases as well as search engines like Google Scholar

Search Operators/Strategies

https://library.concordia.ca/

Database Demos

“City beautiful” phrase search Any field vs Abstract field

l. Art/Architecture Databases

ll. Canadian/Quebec Databases

lll. News

IV. Multidisciplinary

Example: City Beautiful Movement

“City beautiful” AND (Montreal OR Quebec OR Canad*)

External Research Libraries/Archives

Local Archives/Research

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ - archives)

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Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)

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Montréal Archives (Archives de Montréal)

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McCord Museum

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Citation Guides

Citing

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Concordia Library: Citation Quick Guides & RefWorks Demo

Image CreditsSlide 1:Frank Darling and S. George Curry. 1885, Image: 2008. Hockey Hall of Fame, Bank of Montreal (exterior) Toronto, ON,Canada, https://library-artstor-org.lib-ezproxy.concordia.ca/asset/ADOVIG_10311806354.

Slide 2:David Iskander, Untitled via Unsplash, https://unsplash.com/photos/EDSGSKm5jvc.

Slide 3, 5, 21-22:Filippo Romano, Series Uncollected at CCA, PH2015:0005:032, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, QC, Canada, https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/about.

Slide 4: Filippo Romano, Series Uncollected at CCA, PH2015:0005:042, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal,QC, Canada, https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/about.

Slide 6-9:Ernest Isbell Barott (architect) & unknown photographer, Saint-Denis Theatre, Montréal, Québec: interior view, 1915, gelatin silver print mounted on paper, 24.4 x 19.5 cm, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, QC, Canada, https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/search/details/collection/object/437709.

Slide 10, 15, 17, 19-20:Muneeb Sye, Untitled via Unsplash, https://unsplash.com/photos/QMJCRiVzsWY.

Slide 11-14:Alexander Henderson, Spring Flood in McGill Street, Montréal, April 1869, albumen silver print from we-collodion glass-plate negative, 10.1 x 89.cm, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, QC, https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/search/details/collection/object/250850.

Slide 18: Byron Company, Sports, Coaching, New York Herald City Beautiful Campaign, Museum of the City of New York, NYC, NY: https://library-artstor-org.lib-ezproxy.concordia.ca/asset/AMCNYIG_10313500725.

Slide 23: Nathan Dumlao. Unsplash. Retrieved from: https://unsplash.com/photos/cEJwMalRit8