Slightly delayed response to Scavenger Hunt Team 4/Question 3:

The challenge was to find 2 recent journal articles, published between 2010 and 2014, that examined the current practice by museums of providing museum tour podcasts:

The two representative articles I selected are:

1. Reynolds, Rebecca (2010). Museum audios for design students: Auditory wallpaper or effective learning support? Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 9(2), 151-166. doi: 10.1386/adch.9.2.151_1 Beatley Library provides full-text access via Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
2. Buffington, Melanie L. (2010). Podcasting possibilities for art education. Art Education, 63)(1), 11-16. Retrieved from: 

http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=arte_pubs

The first resulted from a combination of basic and advanced OPAC searches of Simmons' library collection but I had difficulties finding other articles that treated museum tour podcasts as their main topic. In fact, after having performed many advanced searches using a wide array of search terms and Boolean permutations, most of the returns on the first several screens/pages of results seemed to have nothing to do with my topic despite being ranked by relevance. 

So for my second article example -- not to mention, instant gratification -- I turned to Google Scholar.  

Regarding the third bullet general challenge on the Scavenger Hunt:

My choice is the Thomas J. Watson Library (http://libmma.org/portal/); the main library associated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. The Research tab on the Met homepage main menu (http://www.metmuseum.org/research/libraries-and-study-centers) provides links to the individual profiles of its large network of affiliated libraries. In addition to the Watson, other notable libraries include: 

Asian Art Library

Cloisters Library and Archives

Islamic Art Library

Joyce F. Menschel Photography Library

Nolen Library

Onassis Library

Ratti Textile Center Library

Robert Goldwater Library

Robert Lehmann Collection Library

and

Textile Conservation Library 

The Watson Library maintains the OPAC WATSONLINE (http://library.metmuseum.org/), whose record holdings encompass the entire combined collections of all 12 libraries.