Search the library's print and online resources to find books, ebooks, articles, recordings and more.
Here is a short guide to help you get started: Multisearch: A Quick Overview
Google Scholar can be a useful search tool when starting your research, but it should not be the only tool you use. However, while you know you can rely on MTU library resources, it is up to you to make sure content you find on Google Scholar is safe to use for your assignments and research.
Did you know you can link Google Scholar to MTU Kerry library so it always tells you when the full text of an article is available in the library?
Here is our Link MTU Kerry Library to Google Scholar guide.
Searching the library's online resources is a bit different to searching Google. Here are some tips to get you started:
Things to think about when making your list of keywords
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The library catalogue lists physical items and ebooks purchased by the library.
Use Multisearch to search the library catalogue and online collections at the same time.
Use the A-Z of Online Journals to find a specific journal or journals on a specific subject.
Use Multisearch to find books and ebooks. This is a selection of printed books books available in the library. The key drawing Dewey numbers are in the 741s. Some key numbers: 741.2: Drawing Technique. 741.092 Drawing A-Z by Artist. 743.4 Drawing: Anatomy.
The Drawing Book
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'The Drawing Book' is a beautifully designed hardback edition with over 450 colour and black and white illustrations. The book looks at the importance of drawing as both a formative process and art form in its own right.
Vitamin D
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Drawing has recently experienced a renewal of importance in the art world; in fact, it has rarely been as widely represented in the biennials, art fairs, and exhibitions as it is now. Similar in concept, scope and structure to Phaidon's successful volume Vitamin P, Vitamin Dpresents, in A to Z order, the work of 109 artists who have emerged internationally since 1990 using the medium of drawing. Whether representational or abstract, small or large in scale, using only one line or rich in colors and pattern, drawings have a highly descriptive and meticulously detailed quality that is being explored by an increasing number of contemporary artists. Extending beyond the traditional image associated with this medium, Vitamin Dhopes to illustrate the complexity, variety, and relevance of the practice of drawing today.
Your Sketchbook Your Self
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Clear, punchy, packed with illustrations and information, "Your Sketchbook Your Self" is the essential tool to inspire creativity in students, teachers and aspiring artists alike. Here, for the first time, is all the advice, support and inspiration needed to start and maintain a sketchbook.
Hyperdrawing
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In hyperdrawing: beyond the lines of contemporary art, authors and artists come together to explore the potential of what drawing in contemporary art theory and practice might become.
Drawing Now
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An exhibition in book form, this showcase of the best of drawing now features one hundred works by almost fifty artists including Susan Hauptman, Paul Noble, Jeff Gabel, Tracey Emin, Jane Harris, Julia Fish, Cornelia Parker and Jerwood Drawing Prize winner Sarah Woodfine.
Writing on Drawing : Essays on Drawing Practice and Research
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An increased public and academic interest in drawing and sketching, both traditional and digital, has allowed drawing research to emerge recently as a discipline in its own right. In light of this development, Writing on Drawing presents a collection of essays by leading artists and drawing researchers that reveal a provocative agenda for the field, analyzing the latest work on creativity, education and thinking from a variety of perspectives
Drawing Investigations
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Using close visual analysis of drawings, artist interviews, critical analysis and exegesis, Drawing Investigations examines how artists use drawing as an investigative tool to reveal information that would otherwise remain unseen and unnoticed.
Drawing Difference : Connections Between Gender and Drawing
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Drawing has been growing in recognition and stature within contemporary fine art since the mid-1970s. Simultaneously, feminist activism has been widespread, leading to the increased prominence of women artists, scholars, critics and curators and the wide acknowledgement of the crucial role played by gender and sexual difference in constituting the subject.
A Companion to Contemporary Drawing
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The first university-level textbook on the power, condition, and expanse of contemporary fine art drawing A Companion to Contemporary Drawing explores how 20th and 21st century artists have used drawing to understand and comment on the world.
Collective and Collaborative Drawing in Contemporary Practice : Drawing Conversations
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This book considers what happens, and how, when people draw together either in the form of a collaboration, or through a collective process. The contributions here serve to establish the field of collective and collaborative drawing as distinct from the types of drawing undertaken by artists, designers, and architects within a professional context.
You can find a full listing of e-Journals databases on the library website.
Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice
Some useful online resources.
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Referencing is an essential skill for academic writing. It is important to acknowledge the work of others to avoid plagiarism.
We recommend that you complete the following online tutorials from the MTU Library Assignment Toolkit to find out more about the importance of Referencing and understanding Plagiarism.
Students of this Subject normally use the Chicago Referencing Style Please talk to your lecturer to confirm the recommended Referencing Style for your particular Subject.
Here is a link to our full list of Referencing Guides covering all of the most popular referencing styles. In this section, you'll also find information on Referencing Software.
Look for a peer-review limiter on your search results page.
How do I know if a journal is peer-reviewed?
Be careful, however! Not all articles within a peer-reviewed journal are peer-reviewed articles.
TIP: Peer-reviewed articles will have an abstract and a list of references.
We recommend you complete the following online tutorials from the MTU Library Assignment Toolkit.
You can also check out the Academic Learning Centre on the MTU Cork campus or the Academic Success Centre on the MTU Kerry campus.
