We are here to help faculty, student, and community researchers to develop their research projects, from discovery through end product, including navigating image rights for publication and managing citations. We also assist in developing project plans that may require funding proposals and/or community collaborators.

• Assistance with research question refinement
• Researching topic areas, including searching and finding a wide variety of media formats
• Documentation strategies and standards
• Research area-specific repositories & archives
• Strategies for planning the research process from start to finish

Working in research intensive disciplines like Art History delving into a wide variety of resources across media, related disciplines, and hard to find resources like archives and rare books. The Fine Arts & Design Library Public Services team in the University Libraries is here to help you in your research activities.

• Locating resources, like books, archives and media for use in proposals, research projects and instructional programs
• Evaluation tools, technologies and strategies for citation management, instruction, and more
• Identifying both on- and off-campus collaborators and resources

Art History is a continuously evolving discipline in which continuous learning and practice of new skills and strategies is the norm. UNM's Fine Arts & Design Library team works very hard to stay abreast of ongoing developments in the field and provides training and instruction for classes, groups and individuals in a wide variety of subject areas.

Credit courses:

• Introduction to Photography (ARTS 185)

General and Custom Instruction & Training Sessions:

• researching in the arts first principles
• arts documentation & citation
• collaboration tools