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The following are books I have checked out (not including interlibrary loan) that I'm using for my paper I'm currently writing. A bunch of them are coming due and I've maxed out my online renewals. The semester is now wrapping up and I'm ready to get this project done! From ritual to theatre : the human seriousness of play / Victor Turner. Guide to Baroque Rome / Anthony Blunt. The politics of the piazza : the history and meaning of the Italian square / Eamonn Canniffe. Living theater : a history / Edwin Wilson, Alvin Goldfarb. A short history of Western performance space / David Wiles. The Renaissance stage: documents of Serlio, Sabbattini and Furttenbach. Translated by Allardyce Nico Baroque and romantic stage design. The urban image of Augustan Rome / Diane Favro. The history of the popes, from the close of the middle ages. Drawn from the secret archives of the V Dominion of the eye : urbanism, art, and power in early modern Florence / Marvin Trachtenberg. Fons sapientiae : Renaissance garden fountains / [edited by Elizabeth B. MacDougall]. Baroque art: the Jesuit contribution. Edited by Rudolf Wittkower & Irma B. Jaffe. The urban character of christian worship : the origins, development, and meaning of stational liturg The papacy : an encyclopedia / Philippe Levillain, general editor. Pilgrimage to Rome in the Middle Ages : continuity and change / Debra J. Birch. From art to theatre; form and convention in the renaissance [by] George R. Kernodle. Theatre and playhouse : an illustrated survey of theatre building from ancient Greece to the present Rome in the Renaissance : the city and the myth : papers of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the The Renaissance in Rome / Charles L. Stinger. A history of architecture : settings and rituals / Spiro Kostof ; revisions by Greg Castillo ; origi A pageant of the theatre. The development of the theatre; a study of theatrical art from the beginnings to the present day. Sebastiano Serlio on architecture / by Sebastiano Serlio ; translated from the Italian with an intro Saints & sinners : a history of the popes / Eamon Duffy. Painting and experience in fifteenth century Italy : a primer in the social history of pictorial sty Palladio / by James S. Ackerman. The Rome of Alexander VII, 1655-1667 / Richard Krautheimer. The families who made Rome : a history and a guide / Anthony Majanlahti. The ideal city, its architectural evolution / Helen Rosenau. Christina of Sweden, a psychological biography, by Margaret Goldsmith. The conscience of the eye : the design and social life of cities / Richard Sennett. Shakespeare's theater : a sourcebook / edited by Tanya Pollard. Christina of Sweden / by Sven Stolpe ; edited by Sir Alec Randall. Queen Christina.
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Well, it will all turn into a big fine if I don't return some of them pretty soon. I have heard over library fines exceeding $1000 in extreme cases.... 😮Incidentally, I just finished two days of working, each over the course of 12 hours, trying to finish my second draft. As usual, I overestimate my ability to get a paper done in a decent time. :-[
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Well, it will all turn into a big fine if I don't return some of them pretty soon. I have heard over library fines exceeding $1000 in extreme cases.... 😮Incidentally, I just finished two days of working, each over the course of 12 hours, trying to finish my second draft. As usual, I overestimate my ability to get a paper done in a decent time. :-[
It's best to start early, write a draft, let it sit a few days, go back to it, and then mark it up for a rewrite. I find this really helps.
My problem is that my time needed to get a paper done is usually related to the amount of time I am given to complete it. In other words, if I am given two weeks to complete a paper, it will take me two weeks. If given two months, it will take me two months. I think it's a psychological thing. When I am given more time, I will spend that time on tangents in my research, such as following leads which might turn into dead ends. I will also deliberate on questions like, “should include this or that?” rather than just doing it. While it is true that I do better overall research when I am given more time, it doesn't really mean I will get it done before the deadline.
My problem is that my time needed to get a paper done is usually related to the amount of time I am given to complete it. In other words, if I am given two weeks to complete a paper, it will take me two weeks. If given two months, it will take me two months. I think it's a psychological thing. When I am given more time, I will spend that time on tangents in my research, such as following leads which might turn into dead ends. I will also deliberate on questions like, "should include this or that?" rather than just doing it. While it is true that I do better overall research when I am given more time, it doesn't really mean I will get it done before the deadline.
A two month paper should take two months; a two week paper should take two weeks. Use the time allotted to your advantage.
Oh man…I just turned in paper #3, my last paper due of the semester. These last few weeks were pretty intense, but I got everything turned in. Perhaps lacking on some quality, but at least I got it done. 😀Now comes the caravan to the library. Below are the books I currently have checked out and have to bring back...I guess I have a lot of them currently in my possession! Carpaccio /by: Sgarbi, Vittorio.Carpaccio : pittore di storie /by: Carpaccio, Vittore, 1455?-1525?Arte veneta.JournalCaravaggio, Knight of Malta /by: Farrugia Randon, Philip.The politics of ritual kinship : confraternities and social order in early modern Italy /Artists of the Middle Ages /by: Ross, Leslie, 1956-Early medieval art : Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque /by: Beckwith, John, 1918-1991.Reading medieval images : the art historian and the object /Seeing medieval art /by: Kessler, Herbert L., 1941-Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio : come nascono i Capolavori /Caravaggio : l'ultimo tempo 1606-1610 /by: Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610.Caravaggio /by: Vodret Adamo, Rossella.Venice : the hinge of Europe, 1081-1797 /by: McNeill, William Hardy, 1917-Venice : a documentary history, 1450-1630 /Civic ritual in Renaissance Venice /by: Muir, Edward, 1946-Medieval monasticism : forms of religious life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages /by: Lawrence, C. H. 1921-Culture and society in Venice, 1470-1790: the Renaissance and its heritage.by: Logan, Oliver.Rome in the Renaissance : the city and the myth : papers of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton /Aesthetic subjects /Seventeenth-century Roman palaces : use and the art of the plan /by: Waddy, Patricia.From Rome to eternity : Catholicism and the arts in Italy, ca. 1550-1650 /Art and life in Renaissance Venice /by: Brown, Patricia Fortini, 1936-St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne : relics, reliquaries and the visual culture of group sanctity in late medieval Europe /by: Montgomery, Scott B.Painting in Renaissance Venice /by: Humfrey, Peter, 1947-The art of Venice : from its origins to 1797 /by: Pedrocco, Filippo, 1950-Venice: lion city : the religion of empire /by: Wills, Garry, 1934-Monuments of medieval art /by: Calkins, Robert G.The symbol at your door : number and geometry in religious architecture of the Greek and Latin Middle Ages /by: Hiscock, Nigel, 1940-Art and society in the Middle Ages /by: Duby, Georges.Caravaggio : the final years /Myths of Venice : the figuration of a state /by: Rosand, David.Carpaccio : the major pictorial cycles /by: Mason Rinaldi, Stefania.Caravaggio /by: Gash, John.Venice & antiquity : the Venetian sense of the past /by: Brown, Patricia Fortini, 1936-Private lives in Renaissance Venice : art, architecture, and the family /by: Brown, Patricia Fortini, 1936-Art and architecture in Italy, 1600 to 1750 /by: Wittkower, Rudolf.Papal genealogy : the families and descendants of the popes /by: Williams, George L.The Borghese Gallery /by: Moreno, Paolo.Collecting sculpture in early modern Europe /Titian to Tiepolo : three centuries of Italian art /Vatican splendour : masterpieces of Baroque art /by: Johnston, Catherine.Landscape and identity in early modern Rome : villa culture at Frascati in the Borghese era /by: Ehrlich, Tracy L., 1965-Early medieval art, 300-1150 : sources and documents /by: Davis-Weyer, Caecilia.Saint Bernward of Hildesheim.by: Tschan, Francis Joseph, 1881-1957.Saint Bernward of Hildesheim.by: Tschan, Francis Joseph, 1881-1957.Medieval callings /Porto Ercole, l'ultima dimora di Caravaggio : il luogo sconosciuto della morte del pittore /by: Vinceti, Silvano.Porto Ercole, l'ultima dimora di Caravaggio : il luogo sconosciuto della morte del pittore /by: Vinceti, Silvano.L'ultimo Caravaggio, 1606-1610 : il giallo della morte: omicidio di Stato? /by: Pacelli, Vincenzo, 1939-Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio : chiuder la vita /by: Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610.The possessions of a Cardinal : politics, piety, and art, 1450-1700 /
I hope you catalogued all of these in your bibliography software. 🙂
Yes, at least the books in that I ended up using in my papers. I didn't actually use all the books that I had checked out for one reason or another (sometimes a book that looks good in summary turns out to be unusable in a paper).
I envy you, I just wish I had access to a decent library. Amazon makes a lot of money off of me.
How exactly did they expect students to access books in library at AMU? I guess I never thought of that before.
I envy you, I just wish I had access to a decent library. Amazon makes a lot of money off of me.
How exactly did they expect students to access books in library at AMU? I guess I never thought of that before.
We can get books through ILL, they also have a pretty good size online holding of e-books and other history sources. I have found myself buying a lot of books though, especially since I am in Germany. When I was in Texas I could access the library of the local small university and occasionally I would hold my nose and drive to Austin to use the UT library. I could not check out any books from UT but I could read them in the library without paying a fee.
How exactly did they expect students to access books in library at AMU? I guess I never thought of that before.
I too buy a lot of books, and have found that the netlibrary and elibrary e-books aren't as bad as I thought they would be - I guess they've kind of grown on me. ;DI also make use of my local (public) research library.I'm sure that being overseas has some challenges, but I make extensive use of AMU's Inter-Library Loan (ILL) system. I currently have six books checked out (two from the actual AMU library and four from other schools). Over the last three courses I've probably received close to two dozen books through AMU's ILL or direct loan from the AMU library. Generally, within 24 hours of filling out the ILL form I will get an email stating that the request has been filled and the book shows up via UPS in two or three days. Generally, the book will be on loan for 30 days. Sometimes we can renew, sometimes we cannot.Just as an interesting aside, I took this afternoon off from work since I have a major paper coming due in a couple of weeks and I am currently sitting IN the AMU / APUS library (taking a quick break from researching by accessing WCF! - and this course is my justification/excuse for why I've been so absent from the forums over the last couple of months) While it may pale in comparison to most college libraries, the history / military history collection is quite significant (with more coming). There are some advantages to living within 25 miles of AMU's headquarters!
Where is the AMU library? Rhode Island? I suppose if someone lived far away, but near a major university, it would not be too difficult to get enough resources for papers (where I am, the general public library has many books, but barely any that are usable for my purposes). I believe that all university libraries that receive public funding need to have hours when the public can access materials, even if they can't check them out. If AMU gives you access to articles through JSTOR and other databases, it would go a long way to enabling quality research for students regardless of where they are located.
The AMU library is located in, of all places, Charles Town, WV (a stone's throw from Harpers Ferry).The library offers access to JSTOR articles, Lexis-Nexis, ProQuest, Ebsco, Footnote.com, ABC-Clio World at War, CRC netbase, Elsevier, Loislaw, Poiesis, CIAO, Jane's, Praeger, and a bunch of other article databases I've never used. There is also a database for "American History in Video" that lists some 1500 videos from the 1890s to 1980s (I've never used it)eBook catalogs include: ACLS Humanities, ACLS History, Ebrary, Netlibrary, CIAO, Praeger, and ProQuest Dissertations. In addition to standard ILL they also have an ebook rental program (at no cost to students) and an Online Book Catalog (for the actual books in their traditional libarary).They also list contact info for 15 research librarians.The web resources listed in the History department portal give links and access to a variety of libraries and sources - some free, others through library cooperative agreements(The Avalon Project at Yale, Cornell Univeristy Library collection of Historical Monographs, the Eurodocs collection at BYU, University of Calgary library's digital collection on the Middle Ages, ibibio, World War I document archive at BYU, the Vincent Voice Library at MSU (oral history collection), Center for Military History -- the list goes on and on. THere is more there than most folks will ever even be aware of.I've been in the "ebrary" for the last two hours reading Christopher Bassford's Clausewitz in English Ebrary allows me to highlight text and export those highlights, and any free-form notes to MS Word. Has it's plusses and minuses, but the only copy of the book I need is never checked out.
Here are the books I currently have checked out for my fall semester's papers. I will be glad to get them back to the library soon.
Pollitt, J. J. (Jerome Jordan), 1934- Art of ancient Greece : sources and documents / J.J. Pollitt. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor N5630 .P56 1990 Book Renewed: Due 12-19-11 Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo, 1929- Roman copies of Greek sculpture : the problem of the originals / Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NB94 .R54 1984 Book Renewed: Due 12-19-11 Pollitt, J. J. (Jerome Jordan), 1934- Art of Greece, 1400-31 B.C.: sources and documents [by] J. J. Pollitt. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor N5630 .P56 1965 Book Renewed: Due 12-19-11 Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo, 1929- Hellenistic sculpture. Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway. v. 2 Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NB94 .R535 1989 Book Renewed: Due 12-19-11 Onians, John, 1942- Art and thought in the Hellenistic Age : the Greek world view, 350-50 BC / John Onians. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor N5630 .O54 Book Renewed: Due 12-19-11 Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo, 1929- Hellenistic sculpture. Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway. v. 3 Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NB94 .R535 1989 Book Renewed: Due 12-19-11 Havelock, Christine Mitchell. Hellenistic art : the art of the classical world from the death of Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium / by Christine Mitchell Havelock. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor N5630 .H37 1981 Book Renewed: Due 12-19-11 Pollitt, J. J. (Jerome Jordan), 1934- Art and experience in classical Greece [by] J. J. Pollitt. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor N5630 .P54 1972 Book Renewed: Due 12-19-11 Kousser, Rachel Meredith, 1972- Hellenistic and Roman ideal sculpture : the allure of the classical / Rachel Meredith Kousser. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NB94 .K69 2008 Book Renewed: Due 12-19-11 Brilliant, Richard. My Laocoön : alternative claims in the interpretation of artworks / Richard Brilliant. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NB105 .A34 A7 2000 Book Renewed: Due 12-19-11 Smith, R. R. R. Hellenistic sculpture : a handbook / R.R.R. Smith. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NB94 .S63 1991 Book Renewed: Due 12-19-11 Arte, storia, restauri della Basilica di San Marco a Venezia : il coronamento gotico. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NA5621.V5 A779 2009 Book Charged: Due 12-22-11 Arte, storia, restauri della Basilica di San Marco a Venezia : la facciata nord. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NA5621 .V5 A78 2006 Book Charged: Due 12-22-11 Sculture esterne di San Marco / saggio di Otto Demus ; contributi di Lorenzo Lazzarini, Mario Piana ; catalogo di Guido Tigler. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NA5621 .V5 S35 1995 Book Charged: Due 12-22-11 Merker, Gloria S. Hellenistic sculpture of Rhodes, by Gloria S. Merker. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor Folio NB91 .R47 M47 Book Charged: Due 12-22-11 Interpretazioni veneziane : studi di storia dell'arte in onore di Michelangelo Muraro / a cura di David Rosand. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor Folio N7442 .M874 1984 Book Charged: Due 12-22-11 Laocoonte : alle origini dei Musei Vaticani / [cura della mostra, Francesco Buranelli, Paolo Liverani, Arnold Nesselrath]. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor Folio NB105 .A34 A7 2006 Book Renewed: Due 01-09-12 Rebaudo, Ludovico. Braccio mancante : i restauri del Laocoonte (1506-1957) / Ludovico Rebaudo. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor N7763 .L36 R43 2007 Book Renewed: Due 01-09-12 Regional schools in Hellenistic sculpture : proceedings of an international conference held at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, March 15-17, 1996 / edited by Olga Palagia and William Coulson. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor Folio NB94 .R4 1998 Book Renewed: Due 01-09-12 Georgopoulou, Maria, 1961- Venice's Mediterranean colonies : architecture and urbanism / Maria Georgopoulou. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NA1101 .H465 G46 2001 Book Renewed: Due 01-09-12 Goy, Richard J. (Richard John), 1947- Venice : an architectural guide / Richard J. Goy. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NA1121.V4 G679 2010 Book Renewed: Due 01-09-12 Basilica of St. Mark in Venice / edited by Ettore Vio. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NA5621 .V5 B37 1999 Book Renewed: Due 01-09-12 Howard, Deborah. Sound and space in Renaissance Venice : architecture, music, acoustics / Deborah Howard and Laura Moretti. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NA5621.V4 H68 2009 Book Renewed: Due 01-09-12 Mian, Martina. Churches of Venice : the museum in the city / [scientific coordination Martina Mian, Luca Baldin ; translated by David Graham]. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NA5621 .V4 M53 2002 Book Renewed: Due 01-09-12 San Marco, Byzantium, and the myths of Venice / edited by Henry Maguire and Robert S. Nelson. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor N72.P6 S26 2010 Book Renewed: Due 01-09-12 Concina, Ennio. History of Venetian architecture / Ennio Concina ; translated by Judith Landry. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NA1121 .V4 C65613 1998 Book Renewed: Due 01-09-12 St. Mark's : the art and architecture of church and state in Venice / edited by Ettore Vio ; translation, Huw Evans. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor Folio N7952 .V46 S6813 2003 Book Renewed: Due 01-09-12 Toesca, Pietro, 1877-1962. Mosaics of St. Mark's. Text by Pietro Toesca and Ferdinando Forlati. [Translated by Joyce Templeton and Gustina Scaglia] Location: 'Main Library 7th floor Folio NA5621 .V5 T6 Book Renewed: Due 01-09-12 Demus, Otto. Mosaics of San Marco in Venice / Otto Demus. v.1 pt.1 Location: 'Main Library 7th floor Folio NA3788 .D45 1984 Book Renewed: Due 01-09-12 Demus, Otto. Mosaics of San Marco in Venice / Otto Demus. v.1 pt.2 Location: 'Main Library 7th floor Folio NA3788 .D45 1984 Book Renewed: Due 01-09-12 Jolly, Penny Howell. Made in God's image? : Eve and Adam in the Genesis mosaics at San Marco, Venice / Penny Howell Jolly. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NA3790 .J66 1997 Book Renewed: Due 01-09-12 Bertoli, Bruno. Arte, Bibbia, preghiera : la basilica di San Marco e i suoi mosaici / Bruno Bertoli. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NA3790 .B47 2009 Book Renewed: Due 01-09-12 Venice : a documentary history, 1450-1630 / edited by David Chambers and Brian Pullan, with Jennifer Fletcher. Location: 'Main Library 4th floor DG677.85 .V35 2001 Book Charged: Due 01-11-12 Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abteilung. v. 100 Location: 'Main Library 4th floor DE2 .D42 Book Charged: Due 01-11-12 Images of the Mother of God : perceptions of the Theotokos in Byzantium / edited by Maria Vassilaki. Location: 'Main Library 6th floor BT652 .B99 I45 2005 Book Charged: Due 01-11-12 Walter, Christopher. Warrior saints in Byzantine art and tradition / Christopher Walter. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor N8079.5 .W35 2003 Book Charged: Due 01-11-12 Grotowski, Piotr L. Arms and armour of the warrior saints : tradition and innovation in Byzantine iconography (843-1261) / by Piotr L. Grotowski ; translated by Richard Brzezinski. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor N8079.5 .G76 2010 Book Charged: Due 01-11-12 Demus, Otto. Church of San Marco in Venice: history, architecture, sculpture. With a contribution by Ferdinando Forlati. no.6 Location: 'Main Library 7th floor Folio N5970 .D89 no.6 Book Renewed: Due 01-18-12 Demus, Otto. Mosaics decoration of San Marco, Venice / Otto Demus ; edited by Herbert L. Kessler. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor Folio NA3788 .D45 1988 Book Renewed: Due 01-18-12 Haskell, Francis, 1928- Taste and the antique : the lure of classical sculpture, 1500-1900 / Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NB85 .H34 Book Renewed: Due 01-18-12 Bober, Phyllis Pray. Renaissance artists & antique sculpture : a handbook of sources / by Phyllis Pray Bober and Ruth Rubinstein ; with contributions by Susan Woodford. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NB85 .B63 1986 Book Renewed: Due 01-18-12 Howard, Seymour, 1928- Antiquity restored : essays on the afterlife of the antique / Seymour Howard ; with a preface by Ernst H. Gombrich. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor N5613 .H69 1990 Book Renewed: Due 01-18-12 Bieber, Margarete, b. 1879. Laocoon; the influence of the group since its rediscovery. With photos. by Ernest Nash. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NB94 .B48 1967 Book Renewed: Due 01-18-12 Lexicon topographicum urbis Romae / a cura di Eva Margareta Steinby. v. 2 Location: 'Main Library 4th floor Folio DG63 .L49 1993 Book Charged: Due 01-24-12 Cassieri, Nicoletta. Grotta di Tiberio e il Museo archeologico nazionale, Sperlonga / Nicoletta Cassieri. Location: 'Main Library 4th floor DG70 .S65 C37 2000 Book Renewed: Due 02-04-12 Renewed: Due 02-04-12 Demus, Otto. Mosaics of San Marco in Venice / Otto Demus. v.2 pt.1 Location: 'Main Library 7th floor Folio NA3788 .D45 1984 Book Renewed: Due 02-04-12 Renewed: Due 02-04-12 Säflund, Gösta, 1903-2004. Polyphemus and Scylla groups at Sperlonga. Location: 'Main Library 7th floor NB163 .P6 S23 Book Renewed: Due 02-04-12 Renewed: Due 02-04-12 Renew? Item Item Type Status Renewal Status From Pergamon to Sperlonga : sculpture and context / edited by Nancy T. de Grummond and Brunilde S. Ridgway. Location: 3rd Floor Stacks NB91.P4 F76 2000 Book Renewed: Due 01-09-12 Renewed: Due 01-09-12 Renew? Item Item Type Status Renewal Status Byzantine world / edited by Paul Stephenson. Location: Circulating Collection -- Third Floor DF521 .B9365 2010 Circulating Collection Charged: Due 12-27-11
