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Finding Resources: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/environmental-design-library

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Research Guides: begin your research here

http://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/c.php?g=20250

Past Topics:

• Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland)• Francisco Reservoir (Russian Hill)• Hakone Estate (Saratoga Hills)• San Francisco eastern waterfront• Mount Sutro (UCSF)• Lake Temescal and Regional Park• Lake Merritt (Oakland)• Dolores Park (San Francisco)• Jack London Square (Oakland)• Union Square (San Francisco)• Huntington Library (San Marino)• Gardens at Filoli• Gill Tract (Albany)• Blake Garden (Kensington)• Balboa Park (San Diego)• Strawberry Creek Park (Berkeley)• Hart Park (Bakersfield)

• Willard Park (Berkeley)• Graceada Park (Modesto)• Skyline Wilderness Park (Napa)• UN Plaza (San Francisco)• Western Edge of San Francisco• Berkeley Marina• Muir Woods (Mill Valley)• Dixon, CA Railroad• Lands End/Sutro (San Francisco)• Japanese Tea Garden (San Francisco)• Happy Hollow Park (San Jose)• Stern Grove (San Francisco)• Sather Esplanade (Berkeley)• UC Botanical Garden (Berkeley)• Downtown Berkeley BART Plaza• Old City Cemetery (Sacramento)

Deconstruct Your Topic or Site

• Who designed it? / Who built it? / Who paid for it? / Who were the intended users/Who manages it?

• What kind of park is it? / What were the design constraints?• Where is it located? (city, state, neighborhood, country)• When was it built? (date completed, century)• Why was it designed?• How did the city (or park authority) approve the project?

Pay attention to the questions you can't answer about your topic.

Tips on searching for your site in books

• “Chunk up” – if looking for Thompson Square in NYC, you may want a guide on NYC parks, searching on a specific park name may not reveal material, although information is held in books.

• Small local parks are not likely to have books written on them.• Be careful with spelling (not Thomsen, Thomson, Thompsen, etc.)• Consider searching for materials about the designer/architect if

well known• Consider searching for materials on the town or park district• For well researched parks (Golden Gate, Berkeley paths) you may

want to focus on a specific feature or lesser known area.• The more distant geographically, the less material we’re likely to

have. Inter-library borrowing can help, but you need to give them time.

• Please read entire entry for context – don’t just “cherry pick”

Environmental Design Research Guide

Landscape Architecture 170 Guide

More Landscape Guides:

Print Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia of gardens : history and design / editor, Candice A. Shoemaker. Environmental Design Reference Desk SB465 .E63 2001

• The Oxford companion to the garden / edited by Patrick Taylor. Environmental Design SB469.25 .O951 2006

• Shaping the American landscape : new profiles from the pioneers of American landscape design project Environmental Design SB469.9 .S53 2009

• Pioneers of American landscape design / volume editors, Charles A. Birnbaum, Robin Karson. Environmental Design SB469.9 .P56 2000

• Landscape design : a cultural and architectural history / Elizabeth Barlow Rogers. Environmental Design SB470.5 .R64 2001

• Landscape encyclopaedia : a reference guide to the historic landscape / Richard Muir. (2004 Anthro)

• Sustainable built environments / Vivian Loftness and Dagmar Haase eds.). Environmental Design NA2542.36 .S875 2013

• Home ground : language for an American landscape / Barry Lopez, editor ; Debra Gwartney, managing ed Environmental Design G108.E5 H66 2006

Oxford Art Online (Encyclopedia)

May be useful in referring you to related articles and books

Wikipedia (don’t forget other languages)

Don’t cite! Mine citations and other sources.

Finding Books: OskiCat Melvylin some cases, guide or tourism books may give you a starting point. Ex: Paley Park, NYC

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Online Request – 3 days to your library of choice

• “Request” any circulating item, including those stored in Richmond at “NRLF” (45% of our collection)

• Log in with CalNet ID

• Select the library at which to pick up the material and “submit”

• 11,000,000 items at your fingertips (but only 20 at a time.)

Subject Headings and “related subjects”

Alternative Book Searching

• Google Bookshttp://books.google.com/ obscure citations, then plug results into OskiCat to find actual item. Beware of the desire to “citation snatch” out of context.

• Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/ “Look Inside” allows for full text searching in some current books and often provides citations.

Citation Management

http://refworks.com/(online only)

http://www.mendeley.com/(local and online)

www.zotero.org/(chrome, firefox, safari)

•Available to UC Berkeley users free “for life” (paid by UCB)•Entirely web-based, so it can be used on all operating systems, at any computer •Format bibliographies in Word •Import citations from RSS feeds •Allows for citation sharing for collaborative projects•Data entry “cludgy”•Does not synch to local computer•Owned by ISI Reuters Thompsen

•Free to users; for-profit with indeterminate funding model•Allows for mass import of PDFs•Can highlight and notate PDFs from within the program•Makes recommendations based on cloud-sourcing•Good collaborative citation sharing•Poor with new media (video, interviews, email, etc) formats•Data entry fairly easy•Owned by Elsevier and there are concerns about data mining

•Free and open source to all•Syncs with online server to allow collaboration and backup•Super easy data entry; intuitive interface•Designed for new media (email, websites, blog posts, maps, etc.)•Easy to annotate, attach .pdf’s, and take “snapshots” of web pages for posterity•Drag and drop citations. •Easy collaboration•Supported by IMLS

Spend your time writing, not managing citations.

Finding Resources: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/environmental-design-library

How to Find: DATABASES

By Subject:• Architecture•Business•Demography •Economics •Environmental Design •Environmental Planning•Urban Design

By Type:•Encyclopedias and Almanacs •Statistics and Numeric Data •Atlases, Maps and Gazetteers •Dissertation and Thesis Databases •Government Information Sources• Information Sources – International

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

Indexes graduate dissertations from over 1,000 North American, and selected European, graduate schools. Dissertations published since 1996 are available in full text for most contributing institutions.

Great source for finding recent doctoral work and references.

Avery Index: limit to articles with plans, sections, etc

Select the “physical description: (plans, elevations, isometric, etc.) that you would like the article to have.

Combine termsDon’t limit to English Note official subject termsNote illustrations included

Search results = citations

Article title

Journal title

Subject Headings

Document Features

Art Source

Some content in this database has “full text” attached (look for .pdf’s) and some will require that you use UC-eLinks.

JSTOR

• Sign on to proxy first or you’ll be asked to pay

• Full text articles from a small set of journals

• Nothing more recent than 3 years• Very few journals covered here (but

searches on every word in article)

Other databases of possible interest

• Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) - 1973 – 2007 = The Bibliography of the History of Art and Repertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA) are citation databases searchable together, and cover material published between 1975 and 2007, primarily covering European and American art.

• C19: The Nineteenth Century Index - 1800 – 1899. Comprehensive coverage of nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives.

• America: History and Life - Indexes over 2,000 journals published worldwide on the history of the US and Canada

• GreenFILE - Covers all aspects of human impact on the environment. Includes scholarly, government and general-interest titles. Topics include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture.

Google Scholar – connect to articles paid for by UCB

•Use Advanced searching to limit results•Can link to UC-eLinks and citation managers via “Preferences”

http://scholar.google.com/

Backward and Forward Citations

• Backward: Look at the footnotes of great articles you’ve identified to locate additional sources. (what were the antecedents to this discourse?)

• Forward: Plug that same citation into Google Scholaror ISI Web of Knowledge to determine who has cited it subsequently

Archival Material• Look for the architect’s archive to determine what

they referenced.

• Online Archive of California http://www.oac.cdlib.org/

• Environmental Design Archiveshttp://www.ced.berkeley.edu/cedarchives/listcoll.html

• Wikipedia articles will sometimes reference archives or archival websites.

• American Memory, Library of Congress Digital Collections

• Archive Finder

Sanborn Maps Online

Print Sanborn maps have much clearer images and can often be found in public libraries or city permitting/zoning offices.

Searching for maps in OskiCat

• Keyword search on city/region name and “map” (ex: “Berkeley map”)

• Find a map that looks appropriate and open record

• Look at subject heading in record (e.g. Watersheds -- California -- Berkeley --Maps.) and click on that subject heading

• Pay attention to scale and dates

Earth Science and Map Library http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/

Air photos

Old Maps Online

Gateway to historic maps from around the world. Search by place name.

http://www.oldmapsonline.org/

Access World News

.gov .org .edu web site domainsGoogle search trick: limit to website or domain search –(e.g. “Blake garden site:berkeley.edu”

ArtStor Image Database

Finding ImagesThink of what kind of image you want, and ask yourself:

1. Where images are produced:

Who made these images; Where can I find their work?

- Architects websites - Scholars publications- Photographers

2. Where images are consumed:

Where are these images published; How do I find these publications?

- Books and Monographs- Journal articles- Authoritative Web publications

3. Where images are collected:

How are these images collected; How can I access them?

- Image collections and databases- Museums and Archives

Ask for help:

Reference Desk from 1-5, M-F

Send an email to deifler@berkeley.edu

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