Research Design on the information behavior of Artists and art historians

research design on the information behavior

of Artists and art historians

Purpose of research

This research aims to conduct a comparative study of the methods of employed by artists and art historians for collection of information This investigation will address the question , Do art historians employ a more refined method of gathering information than artists

Research Overview

There is currently a great disparity in the behavior of artists and art historians as they search for information on their s of interest According to Bates (2001 , the humanities scholars generally employ

the academic approach in gathering information from libraries and museums with the main format being those depicted in peer-reviewed journals and monographs . On the other hand , artists are often observed to conduct their researches using multimedia platforms and other information technology-based resources . Such observations thus suggest that both methods of information gathering should be amply provided in libraries and museums , in for both professions to complete their tasks

Another recent study conducted by Elam (2007 ) described the opposite observation , that art historians recognize , appreciate and use electronic resources for their research studies . The report enumerated the major sources of information that art historians employ , including online libraries , indices and other electronic journals that are usually pooled into a database and accessed over the Internet (Marmor , 2007 Another conflicting observation was earlier reported by Frank (1999 wherein art students were found to browse journals that were compiled in libraries . The group surveys conducted in this investigation indicated that browsing printed...