Books
Art & Architecture Dictionaries & Encyclopedias & Bibliographies Online
- Architecture: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art: Metropolitan Museum of ArtArchitectural elements
- Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new windowOxford’s art reference works: Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
- Oxford Reference This link opens in a new windowReference sources published by Oxford University Press. Dictionaries, subject reference works, language reference sources and key titles in the Oxford Companion series. Some examples are: the Oxford-Duden German dictionaries, A Dictionary of Psychology, A Dictionary of Zoology, The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms, A Dictionary of Writers and Their Works, Oxford Companion to Western Art, Oxford Companion to U.S.History, Oxford Companion to Music, Oxford Companion to Philosophy, and The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, etc.
Browsing for Books
Another option is to browse the STACKS for books. The following call # areas might be of interest for this class.
Art Books-Regular and Oversize books are located on the 8th floor of the Central Library.
| Visual Arts (General) | N |
| Architecture | NA |
| Sculpture | NB |
| Drawing | NC |
| Painting | ND |
| Prints/Engravings | NE |
| Decorative Arts | NK |
| Arts in general | NX |
| Photography | TR |
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Useful Library of Congress Subject Headings
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| Art and Society Archaeology and the State Cultural Property Architecture, United States Cultural Heritage Historic Sites Architecture American Nationalism-History |
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HathiTrust Digital Library
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**The print editions of books made available through HathiTrust ETAS will not be available for check out for the duration of our participation in the service.
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- Not all print items available in our catalog are available in HathiTrust
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- The option to download the work in full is not available
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- There is an automatic renewal option available
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