tsullivan – Reference at Newman Library

Last week, I was helping a student who was looking for books about relations between Turkey and Israel. I found an e-book on the topic, and opened it via the link on the CUNY catalog.

By accident, I typed the search terms “Turkey Israel relations” in the Search field at the top left of the screen, rather than the Search Document field toward the top center of the page, under the blue “eLibrary Reader” button.

For purposes of illustration, I’m using a screenshot from a totally unrelated ebook, “Learning Python with Raspberry Pi” to illustrate the search:

Learning Python with Raspberry Pi Screenshot♦
The search results were quite helpful – see below for the results:

ebrary- Simple Search Results – Turkey Israel relations

Last month, I had a student whose assignment was to find graphs and charts about the Fine Art market – for example, the value of artists’ works sold at auction.
I tried to find graphs using Academic Search Complete, using search terms such as art AND sales AND painting* AND market, and checking the graph, chart, and diagram boxes under “Image Quick View Types.” That yielded no useful results.
It occurred to me that Felix Salmon, the Finance blogger at Reuters, had written about trends in the art market, and clicking on the word “art” in the tag cloud on Salmon’s home page http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/ generated some useful results, specifically the following two posts:

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/12/16/art-market-chart-of-the-day-auction-gross-edition/ – which includes this graph:

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/12/09/adventures-in-art-market-commodification-james-stewart-edition/

Salmon’s post is a critique of the chart below (included in the post), which was published in the New York Times on Dec. 06, 2013 – link to Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/07/business/record-prices-mask-a-tepid-art-market.html?ref=jamesbstewart&pagewanted=all:

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Searching Google for images, using search terms such as art AND sales AND painting* AND market AND graph OR chart generated useful results, including this Sept. 09, 2010, Economist article:

http://www.economist.com/node/16990811 – which included this graph:

See full post titled Art market graphs and charts on the wiki, here:

https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/confluence/display/lib/Art+market+graphs+and+charts

Author: tsullivan

Baruch’s elibrary e-books can be searched using keywords

Finding graphs and charts about the Art market