1. CA 821: Research for your annotated bibliography
Sylvia Roberts
Liaison Librarian for Contemporary Arts

2. Contemporary Arts Librarian:
Knows information sources relevant to SCA teaching, research and practice (and related disciplines)
Provides research support through one-on-one consultations, library research instruction, consulting with instructors on the design of student assignments
Selects research materials for the department, in consultation with faculty members
Promotes and facilitates use of library materials and services
More than 2.5 million books and and 2.9 million online items (e-books, e-journals, images, streaming media) 2

3. Write down a question about using the SFU Library

4. CA 821
“…methods in graduate-level research skills and to promote thinking across the media arts in a comparative perspective that synthesizes historical and theoretical approaches from art history, cinema studies, performance studies, media studies, and sound studies….” (CA 821 syllabus)

5. Graduate level research skills
Scope your research appropriately (resources, discipline)
Use search tools to identify and find scholarly sources on a topic, both primary and secondary
Recognize suitable non-scholarly sources based on quality, authority (authorship), audience
Use metadata and references to expand results
Follow paths of scholarly influence
Find disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches

6. Annotated bibliography (Oct. 23)
Summarizes critical points of current knowledge pertinent to your object of study:
Significant, influential discussions
Historical and current context
Theoretical and methodological approaches
Cites scholarly articles, books, book chapters and relevant non-academic sources (e.g. reviews, interviews, exhibition catalogues)
Annotations provide context / justification for selecting specific texts.
Identify the discipline, place, time, perspective of writer (may require additional research), as well as their argument
Summarize relevant aspects of the text, identify points of difference, state how it will be useful for your research

7. Purpose of literature reviews
Engage with the scholarly record to identify
areas of prior research related to your interests
models for use of methods and theory
gaps in previous research duplication
Places each work within the context of its contribution to the understanding of the subject under review
Places one's original work in the context of existing research literature
Demonstrates your competence with finding and using appropriate research as evidence / support

8. Research objects American culture and the work of Yoshitomo Nara
Aesthetic, cultural, and technological overlaps between TV and film
“Dialectic performance” in performative-based documentary
Who owns the meaning in an immersive art environment?
How “han” manifests in the aesthetics of contemporary Korean cinemas
New methodologies for discussion of bodily hermeneutic in performance
Rickshaw art of Bangladesh
Moonlight(2016) as case study to explore marginalized representations in hegemonic media spaces
Forms and reception of Georgia O’Keeffe’s later work

9. Research Process
Define your research questions, the scope, approach (methods, theory) – iterative process
Use search tools to find research materials about your research object and related discussions
Evaluate the relevance and nature of search results; prefer scholarly, influential sources
Select sources that makes a significant contribution to your examination
Document your search strategy and selections (citation, rationale)
Cite sources, write annotations

10. Key tools CA 821 Research guide Backgrounders Library catalogue
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
Library catalogue
Search by topic keyword, “title”
Browse for books (known titles, authors, subject headings)
Article indexes
Subject specific
Cross-disciplinary

16. Assessing non-academic sources
The academy privileges scholarly publishing as the definitive record of research
Resource intensive
Quality control (peer-review, disciplinary)
Accessible, shared
Non-academic, practice-based research is valuable for Contemporary Arts
Look at:
Authority / authorship (expertise)
Intended readership
Bias
Timeliness

17. Let’s try this On the Emotion of 'Han' in 20C South Korean Film
Art meets audience: how to create unique, immersive experiences
COMMONS / UNDERCOMMONS IN ART, EDUCATION, WORK
Six Primary Styles ofoc Dumentary Production - Videomaker

18. Key tools (part 2) Beyond SFU: WorldCat
Interlibrary loan
Reciprocal borrowing privileges
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Abstracts and Index  (and other theses indexes)
Citation searching, e.g. Google Scholar

23. Stuck? Strategies
Use background sources for search terms, methods, theories, references
Use different search terms broader, narrower, related, names
Use a different database
Search a full text source
Search reference lists in key literature
Follow citation trail of influence
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