Recap

Art & Humanities Information Flow

Timeline	Where it's reported	How to find that information
Publication	Publisher's catalogs, ads, and trade periodicals	GALILEO and print periodical indexes for trade periodicals; library special collections for manuscripts, catalogs, brochures, and other ephemera.
1-6 months	Reviews in newspapers and some magazines	GALILEO and print newspaper and magazine indexes
One year	Reviews in literary periodicals	GALILEO and print periodical indexes
Three years	Interviews	GALILEO and print newspaper and periodical indexes; transcripts of radio or TV interviews are hard to find, but may be available through the Lexis/Nexis database on GALILEO.
Six years	Scholarly article	GALILEO and print journal indexes
Nine years	Survey book/textbook	GIL Library Catalog
Twelve years	Obituaries and articles following her death	GALILEO and print newspaper and magazine indexes
Twenty three years	Ph.D. dissertations	Dissertation Abstracts database on GALILEO, Interlibrary Loan
Forty three years	Full-length book published Included in reference books	GIL Library Catalog
Today, forward	Accepted into literary canon	GIL Library Catalog, GALILEO indexes to literary criticism and scholarly articles, reference books, web sites

Hints

Save time in your research by exploring the point(s) along the flow of information timeline that will provide you with the most useful materials. Then use the resources listed above in the right-hand column to find those materials.
EXAMPLE: You've been assigned a five-page paper critiquing the character of Sabbath Lily Hawks in Wise Blood. You would want to start your research in the sixth year of the flow of information, because that's when scholarly journal articles began to be published (and, following that, scholarly books). If you looked at materials from earlier years, you would only find book reviews that would be too short and have too little character analysis.
EXAMPLE: You need to do a presentation on the initial reaction to Wise Blood. You would want to look at materials from the very beginning of the flow of information. Nothing after the first year in the timeline would be of use because they were published too late.
When doing college-level research, look for criticism and scholarship in journal articles (GALILEO) and books (GIL), not on the Web.
Information on the Web may come from any point in this timeline, but remember that Internet information is not organized and sometimes not reliable or scholarly enough to use for a research paper.

WANT MORE on Internet sources?
> Unit 7 > Tips for Using the Internet

WANT MORE on assessing your sources?
> Unit 9 > Evaluating Sources

Some indexes are not available through GALILEO, or may only have some years available online — ask a librarian for help in finding and using printed indexes.
Find short biographical information about your writer, artist, philosopher, or historical figure in biographical dictionaries. Find longer biographies in books, articles, and interviews.

WANT MORE on focusing your topic?
> Unit 2 > Starting Your Search

Adapted from (link will open in a new window) UCLA College Library (accessed April 4, 2001) which was adapted from Sharon Hogan's original Flow of Information conceptual approach to library instruction 1980 by Diane Zwemer, Instructional Services Coordinator, UCLA College Library.