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ARCHITECTURE

Selected Online Database Resources

Academic Search Premier   1975 - , broad subject coverage, selected full text.
 
Art Abstracts   This database provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for 378 leading international publications pertaining to a variety of art types. This bibliographic database indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
 
Arts & Humanities Citation Index   (via Web of Science), 1975-, indexes 1140 journals, no abstracts or full-text, citations only.
 
ArtSEARCH [LIBRARY ONLY]   ArtSEARCH, the national employment bulletin for the arts can be searched by category, state, and date. The database is updated every 3 business days with up to 1000 listings available daily. Find positions in theatres and performing arts centers, universities, colleges and schools, dance companies, museums, and other arts organizations.
 
ArtStor   A non-profit community resource that has developed a rich digital library of images as well as software tools to enable full use of the collection. Contains over approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.
     
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals   The only comprehensive American guide to the current literature of architecture and design. This database surveys more than 2,500 US and foreign international, popular and scholarly journals.
 
 
Miscellaneous Selected Web Sites
ADAM : The Gateway to Art, Design, Architecture, and Media Information on the Internet http://adam.ac.uk/
ADAM is a searchable catalogue of 2546 Internet resources developed to find useful, quality- assured information on the Internet in the following subject areas: Fine Art, Design, Architecture, Applied Arts, Media, Theory, Museum studies and conservation, and Professional Practice.
 
Architecture : The World-Wide Web Virtual Library
http://www.clr.utoronto.ca/VIRTUALLIB/arch.html
A comprehensive virtual library of links, Architecture is comprised of the following categories:
1.) GROUPS (Schools, Government, Organizations, Research, Firms, Jobs)
2.) INDIVIDUALS (Portfolios)
3.) SOURCES (History, Construction, Projects, Models, Info., Publications, Software, Courses)
4.) TALK (Events, Conferences, Competitions, News, Mailing Lists, WebBoards).
 
Architecture Web Sites
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/archweb_noframes.html
This is an extensive virtual library of unannotated links. It is organized according to the following categories: | General | 3D Models | 19th Century | 20th Century | American | Ancient | Baroque | Careers | Churches - US| Engineering | Historic Preservation | Image Archives | Interior Design | Journals | Maps | Medieval | Non-Western | Renaissance | Skyscrapers | Theory | Urban Planning |
 
 
Selected Print Indexes/Abstracts
 
Architectural Index, 1950-1999,   Ref Z 5941 .A66 [1982-current via online]
 
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, 2nd ed., 1973 - 18th Supp (1997).   Ref Z5945 .C649
 
Burnham Index to Architectural Literature, 10 vols, 1989   Z 5944 .U5 B87
 
Periodical Literature on United States Cities, 1 vol., 1983   Ref Z 5942 .S464
 
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Miscellaneous Reference Sources
 
American Architects   Ref Z 5944 .U5 W63
 
Architect’s Detail Library 1990,   Z 5943 .D48S75
 
British Architects (1840-1976)   Ref Z 5944 .G7 W66
 
Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library, 19 vols, 5 supp., 1968   Z 5945 .C653
 
Design Book Review (DBR)   NA2599.9 .D47
 
Design Resources: A Guide to Architecture and Industrial Design Information,   Z 5943 .A72B35
 
Dictionary of Architecture and Construction   Ref NA 31 .H32 1993
 
Encyclopedia of Interior Design, 2 vols.   Ref NK 1165 .E48 1997
 
Encyclopedia of the Vernacular Architecture of the World, 3 vols   Ref NA208 .E53 1997
 
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1990   Z 5944 .U5M39
 
Landscape Design/Landscape Architecture : [Bibliography1979 - 1990]   Docs A 17.18/4:91-59
 
Vance Bibliographies Series, 139 publications at various call number locations according to topic    
 
Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture   NA7205 .C27 1997
 
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Selected Library of Congress Call Numbers
NA       ARCHITECTURE
      NA 1-6 periodicals
      NA 25-27 collected writings
      NA 31 encyclopedias, dictionaries, glossaries, etc.
      NA 40 biography
      NA 50-60 directories
      NA 100-104 architecture and the state
      NA 105-112 preservation and restoration of architectural monuments
      NA 120-130 examination & licensing of architects
      NA 190-1614 architectural history, including historical monuments
      NA 737 American architects
      NA 1053 French architects
      NA 2695-2793 architectural design and drawing
      NA 2835-4050 architectural details, motives, decoration, etc.
      NA 4100-8480 special classes of buildings
      NA 9000-9428 aesthetics of cities; city planning and beautification
 
NK 1700-3505 Decorative Arts, interior decoration, textiles, metal- and wood-work.
SB 469-479 Landscape Architecture; horticulture, gardens, landscape gardening, parks, etc.
TH Building Construction;
TS 171 Industrial Design
GN 414 -- anthropology, ethnology, dwellings;
GT 165-485 - houses, dwellings
HD 9715-9717.5 - Construction industry;
HT --City/Urban Planning
KF 901-902; 1950; 2925 -Construction/Building Law
KF 5675-5698 - Land Use/Zoning;
KF 5701 - 5710 - Building/Electrical/Plumbing Codes
 
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