1. FPA 821: Annotated bibliography
Sylvia Roberts
Liaison Librarian for Contemporary Arts

2. Liaison librarians
Know information sources relevant to teaching and research in SCA (and related disciplines)
Provides support through one-on-one consultations, library research instruction, consulting with instructors on the design of student assignments
Selects research materials for the department, in consultation with faculty members
Promotes and facilitates use of library materials and services
More than 2.5 million books and and 2.9 million online items (e-books, e-journals, images, streaming media) 2

3. Week 5. Review related literature
According to Belcher, journal articles are typically published for three reasons:
1) to fill a gap in existing research,
2) to extend existing research or
3) to correct unsound research.
If you assert that few other or no other researchers have addressed your topic, make sure you've reviewed enough literature to confidently make that statement.
Additionally, when published, your article will continue the conversation about your topic. This makes understanding where your ideas and findings fit with the current literature an important part of publication
NOTE: This summary is taken from Rich Reis’ posting in Tomorrow’s Professor Mailing List at <

4. Purpose of literature reviews
Place one's original work in the context of existing literature
Identify areas of prior scholarship to prevent duplication of effort
Point the way forward for further research
Places each work within the context of its contribution to the understanding of the subject under review
Identify new ways to interpret, and gaps in, previous research
Describe the relationship of each work to the others under consideration
Addresses conflicts amongst seemingly contradictory previous studies

5. Annotated bibliography
Summarizes critical points of current knowledge pertinent to your object of study:
significant discussions,
historical and current context
theoretical and methodological approaches
Cites scholarly articles, books, book chapters and relevant non-scholarly sources (e.g. reviews, interviews, exhibition catalogues)
Your annotation will provide context / justification for selecting specific texts.
Identify the discipline, place, time, perspective of writer (may require additional research), as well as their argument
Summarize relevant aspects of the text, identify points of difference, state how it will be useful for your research

6. Criteria for research literature (L.Marks)
- original (for us this will usually not be a text but an artwork) - derivative (e.g. newspaper articles, Wikipedia. Replace with scholarly literature) - contextual (don't get lost in this) - methodological  - theoretical (signals your camp) - related (shows you know what others have written on the topic)

7. Process
Define your topic, the scope and research questions pertaining to your topic
Search for materials: use search tools to find materials about your topic
Read and evaluate what you have found in order to select material that makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the topic

8. Research objects Puppet animation War photography and affect
Synesthesia and media
Nudity in dance performance (Pour)
Vaporwave aesthetic
Female villainy and the abject in visual media
Canadian landscape painting: post-colonial perspectives

9. Key tools Research guide CA 821
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
Library catalogue Subject “Aesthetics modern” etc.
Beyond SFU: WorldCat
Interlibrary loan, reciprocal borrowing privileges
Article indexes
subject specific
cross-disciplinary
Index to theses and disserations
Citation searching, e.g. Google Scholar