If it moves, index it; if it doesn’t move, file it. Finding books in a library is a cinch: finding articles in magazines is not. Once you have learned where the books on your favourite subject are shelved you can browse to your heart’s content. Browsing is one of the few free pleasures left us; when practiced in a library the experience is almost obscenely delightful. Browsing among maga- zines is a continuing pleasure for most library users, even for those who never take a book off the shelves. Incidently, our magazines will be shelved in alphabetical order according to the title of the magazine. There are problems with magazines however. Usually one does not appreciate the nature of magazines until one has to look for an article on the recommendation of a friend or (even) on the advice of an instructor. If any of the directions on how to find the article are wrong, the article will be found only with great difficulty, if at all. As one becomes involved with research which leads back in time, the thought of finding articles on a theme, on an artist, or on a particular work of art, becomes mind- boggling, to say the least. Which of the one hundred magazines we receive will have the information you want? How do you get to the right page in the right issue without going through every page in every issue? To the rescue comes the magazine index. To meet the needs of scholars who were unable to search a growing number of magazines dealing with every imaginable subject, companies began specializing in the indexing of a large number of magazines that deal with one subject area. One index that is widely used for art is the Art Index (New York, 1929 —). Learn how to use the Art Index as soon as possible in your career. Spend some time with it. Ask the librarian how to use it. Then, use it! Knowing how indexes to magazines work in general will help you use any collection in any library on this continent. Indexes also save you a lot of valuable time. The Art Index is but one of half-a-dozen indexes dealing with the visual arts. There are many more indexes for magazines in the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Pure and Applied Sciences, Medicine, and so forth. There are indexes which cover such magazines as Time, Popular Science, and House Beautiful. Others deal only with Archi- tectural Magazines, while the Canadian Periodicals Index indexes a wide range of Canadian magazines, including MacLeans, and Artscanada. Generally speaking, indexes are organized the same way card catalogues are arranged. That is, there are several Vol. 2 No. 10 February 26th 1980 POLICY STATEMENT OF THE EDITORS The Student Newspaper has been and will continue to be a forum for the free expression of thoughts and ideas; either verbally or pictorially. We reserve the right, as editors, to edit for clarity and legality, and resolve that all submissions will be treated fairly and equally. Exceptions to the editing policy will include individual pieces of prose, poetry, or images to which the rule of artistic license will be applied. The opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the editors. — Ed lIvsins Michael Christopher Lawlor dozens of headings under which magazine articles may be found. The headings*are arranged alphabetically and include artist’s or author’s names, place names, and the names of areas of knowledge usually covered in the speci- fic category of magazines being indexed. Thus the Art Index will include such headings as “Creation, ‘Fire Prevention”, “Imagination”, and “Perception”, along with “Davis, Gene’’, “Budapest”, “Haida Indians”, and the like. One uses the index as one uses a dictionary, or as one uses the index of a book. In the case of most indexes there are sufficient cross-references from one term to other related terms to help the user find the needed information. You have to develop a vocabulary, ON EXCHANGE 1 HAD to do more than was required of me It COULD have been easy It WOULD have sufficed A NICE self-contained little course Little course amongst little courses No Challenge No confrontation A few techniques A few how-to-do-its Some tips and tricks Just a part of everyone’s life ! could make you busy with the Lie that art is a pleasantry Undemanding and eminently teachable But | could not. And as it is Sometimes | have caught a glance of recognition A glance of recognition. — Ray Arnatt or glossary of terms most often used in the visual arts in order to successfully exploit the mine of knowledge indexes will open to yau. The main shortcoming of indexes is the time-lag they suffer from as a consequence of being published some four to six months after the articles appear in the maga- zines. Therefore the user is obliged to scan current issues of magazines to keep up with trends. It is when you want to re-read an article, or review a series of articles produced over a period of time on a topic that will prove the indexes a godsend. Along with magazines and books, other sources of information you will find important include exhibition catalogues, exhibition reviews, press releases or other ephemeral items usually filed in cabinets near a reference librarian’s desk. These items are very difficult to organize so you will need the help of a professional librarian to explain how to get at the information. In the long run you will end up doing the donkey-work. However during the search process you should ask the librarian for advice, guidance, or an opinion. No matter how trivial you think a question may be the librarian can often save days of frustration if you ask early in the search. See you in the library. — Ken Chamberlain Faculty Evaluation The Student Society has organized an evaluation of all college faculty. The questionnaires will be given to all students between Monday, March 3rd and Thursday, March 6th. The intention is for you to have the oppor- tunity to complete an evaluation of each instructor you have had since September 1979. You are not asked to sign your name. Anyone who does not receive one for each instructor may pick up copies at the Helen Pitt Gallery until Friday, March 14th. The results will be compiled by students and published in booklet form by the end of April. These booklets will also be available at registration next September. 1980 Youth Employment Program Please arrange to publish for me. The Ministry of Labour has just announced the 1980 Youth Employment Program. Last year the college ad- ministered a grant in excess of $20,000 for eight projects involving more than a dozen students. Each year the college invites interested students and faculty to submit applications for YEP funds. Gail Maier has these applications and can advise you on their comp- letion. All applications must be returned to Gail by 4:30, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29. Applicants should hear from the Ministry by early April on whether their project has been funded. It is a tradition at the college that students and faculty discuss various possible projects. If you have a project in mind or if there is an instructor with whom you would like tow work, please contact him/her as soon as possible. Remember each project must be sponsored by a faculty member. —from the office of the Director of Student Services if it doesn’t move, file it. Finding books in a library is a cinch: finding articles in 3: Once you have learned where the books ‘your favourite subject are shelved you can browse t0 your heart's content. Browsing is one of the few free pleasures left us; when practiced ina library the experience is almost obscenely delightful. Browsing among maga- zines is a continuing pleasure for most library users, jen for those who never take a book off the shelves. Incidently, our magazines will be shelved in alphabetical ‘order according to the title of the magazin. There are problems with magazines however. Usually fone does not appreciate ‘one has to look for an article on the recommendation of a friend or (even) on the advice of an instructor, If any of the directions on how to find the article are wrong, the article will be found only with great difficulty, if a all As one becomes involved with research which leads back in time, the thought of finding articles on a theme, on an artist, or on a particular work of art, becomes mind: boggling, to say. the least. Which of the one hundged magazines we receive will have the information you want? How do you get tothe right page in the right issue without going through every page in every ise? To the rescue comes the magazine index. To meet the needs of scholars who were unable to search a growing number of magazines dealing with every imaginable subject, comp: ecializing in the indexing of a large number of magazines that deal with one subject area One index that is widely used for art is the Art Index (New York, 1929 —). Learn how to use the rt Index as soon as possible in your career. Spend some time with it. Ask the librarian how to use it. Then, use it! Knowing ow indexes to magazines work in general will help you use any collection in any library on this continent. Indexes also save you a lot of valuable time. ‘The Art Index is but one of half-dozen indexes dealing with There are many more indexes for magazines in the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Pure and Applied Sciences, Medicine, and so forth. There are indexes which cover such magazines as Time, Popular Science, and House Beautiful. Others deal only with Archi tectural Magazines, while the Canadian Periodicals Index indexes a wide range of Canadian magazines, including Macleans, and Artscanada Generally speaking, indexes are organized the same way card catalogues are arranged. That is, there are several ature of magazines until POLICY STATEMENT OF THE EDITORS The Student Newspaper has been and will continue to be a forum for the free expression of thoughts and ideas; either verbally or pictorially. We reserve the right, as editors, to edit for clarity and legality, and resolve that all submissions will be treated’ fairly and equally. Exceptions to the editing policy will include individual pieces of prose, poetry, or images to which the rule of artistic license will be applied. The opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the editors. — Ed Ivsins Michael Christopher Lawlor dozens of headings under which magazine articles may be found. The headings are arranged alphabetically and include artist's or author's names, place names, and the names of areas of knowledge usualy covered in the speci- fic category of magazines being indexed, Thus the Art Index will include such headings as “*Creation“, “Fire Prevention”, “Imagination”, and “Perception”, along with “Davis, Gene", “Budapest”, “Haida Indians”, and the like. One uses the index as one uses a dictionary, or as one uses the index of a book, In the case of most indexes there are sufficient cross-references from one term to other related terms to help the user find the needed information. You have to develop a vocabulary, ON EXCHANGE 1 HAD to do more than was required of me It COULD have been easy It WOULD have sufficed A NICE self-contained little course Little course amongst litle courses ‘No Challenge ‘No confrontation A few techniques A few howto-doits Some tips and tricks Just apart of everyone's life 1 could make you busy with the Lie that art isa pleasantry Undemanding and eminently teachable But I could not. ‘And as iis ‘Sometimes I have caught a glance of recognition A slance of recognition. — Ray Ammatt for glossary of terms most often used in the visual arts in order to successfully exploit the mine of knowledge indexes will open to you. The main shortcoming of indexes is the time-ag they suffer from as a consequence of being published some four to six months after the articles appear in the maga: zines. Therefore the user is obliged to sean current issues fof magazines to keep up with trends. 1 is when you want to revread an article, oF review a series of articles produced ‘over a period of time ona topic that will prove the indexes a godsend. Along with magazines and books, other sources of formation you will find important include exhibition catalogues, exhibition reviews, press releases or other ephemeral items usualy filed in cabinets near a reference Ubrarian’s desk. These items are very difficult to organize so you will need the help of a professional librarian to explain how to get at the information. In the long run you will end up doing the donkey-work. However during the search process you should ask the librarian for advice, ‘guidance, oF an opinion. No matter how trivial you thin in may be the librarian ean often save days of mn if you ask early in the search. ‘See you in the library. — Ken Chamberlain Faculty Evaluation The Student Society has organized an evaluation of all college faculty. The questionnaires will be given to all Students between Monday, March Srd_ and Thursday, March 6th, The intention is for you to have the oppor tunity to complete an evaluation of each instructor you hhave had since September 1979. You are not asked to sign your mame, Anyone who docs not receive one for cach ‘instructor ‘may pick up copies at the Helen Pitt lery until Friday, March 14th, The results will be compiled by students and published in booklet form by the end of April. These booklets wil also be available at registration next September. 1980 Youth Employment Program Please arrange to publish for me. xy of Labour has just announced the 1980 Youth Employment Program. Last year the college ad. ministered a grant in excess of $20,000 for eight projects involving more than a dozen students. Each year the college invites interested students and faculty to submit applications for YEP funds. Gail Maier has these applications and can advise you on their comp. letion. All applications must be returned to Gail by 4:30, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29. Applicants should hear from the Ministry by carly April on whether the project has been funded, It isa tradition at the college that students and faculty discuss various possible projects. If you have project in mind or if there is an instructor with whom you would like tow work, please contact him/her as soon as possible. Remember each project must be sponsored by a faculty member. {om the office of the Director of Student Servi