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Art & Architecture

General Information

Art Librarian and other staff contacts
Locations of scanners, slide scanner and audiovisual equipment (vhs and laser disc players, turntables, etc.)
Software packages available at campus USITE clusters

Reading Room and non-circulating art collections

Location and Hours
East Asian Art
Semi-rare collection in Western Art
Masters' Papers in Art History and Visual Arts
Max Epstein Image Archive

Course Guides

Introduction to Art (ARTH 101), Fall 2009 (Professor Megan Luke)
Course guides from previous years

Research guides

Blogs

All Things Visual Communiqués from the Visual Resources Collection, Department of Art History.
Sign of the Owl Artists' books, printing, the written word and visual communication.

Campus-wide resources

Art History Department and VRC's Image Databases
Center for the Art of East Asia
Department of Visual Arts
Film Studies Center
Oriental Institute
Renaissance Society
Smart Museum of Art

Reference sources

Online art dictionaries and encyclopedias

Find books

Library Catalog, Worldcat, Multi-Library Catalogs, others

Find dissertations

A list of U.S. and international sources

Find articles in journals and magazines

Art: Art Abstracts, ARTbibliographies Modern, Art Index Retrospective, Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals
Architecture: Avery Index, RIBA Library Catalog
Design: Design and Applied Arts Index, DAR: Design Abstracts Retrospective,
Full list of digital indexes relating to the visual arts
Online journals in art and architecture

Find images

Sources of digital images
Collections of print images

Find auction information

Results: Use Artnet to find prices for individual lots. Most records include some description and color images. For antiquarian book sales, see American Book Prices Current (on campus only)
Auction catalogs: Identify and locate specific catalogs using Scipio: art and rare books sales catalogs

Find films

Complete list of films held by the Library || Request a film purchase for your research using this form

Full-text resources

books and digital projects