What you need to know about searching book catalogs!

I am delighted to be reading, perusing, skimming, and consulting the book Magic Search: Getting the best Results from Your Catalog and Beyond by Kornegay, Buchanan, and Morgan. (ALA editions, ISBN 978-0-8389-0990-4). In particular, I am soaking up all the subdivisions related to Art and finding lots of useful information!

For example:

"Art topics usually receive the century treatment, with three exceptions: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Art" (p. 50). (Hint: think how eras regarding these cultures are defined....)

Best of all, the authors direct seekers here http://authorities.loc.gov/ in order to know all possible chronological subdivisions!

Pages 62-63 detail the differences between

--catalogues raisonnes
--Art collections
--In Art

Chapter 3 is all about the subdivisions relevant to finding images. Happy sigh--I'm in heaven. I am very happy to have at hand this extremely clear and cogent guide to subdivisions!