Resources for Art + Design
Check out the blog for Art + Design students and faculty.
For some answers to common questions about library research at UMD, see the Research FAQ.
Subscription Databases for Art + Design
Electronic indexes, full text databases and high-quality reference sources provided by the UMD library and especially useful to Art + Design students and faculty.
Art resources on the web
NYPL
Digital Gallery
This is a digital collection of 275,000 images from the New York
Public Library. It
covers illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints
and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
U of M's Digital Content Library
About 100,000 files, mainly image pictures, are in this database for use in teaching mainly art and design classes at the University of Minnesota.
Joellyn Rock, a faculty member in UMD's Art + Design Dept., has created these valuable links pages:
Loreto Martin's links to art blogs
This is a nice collection of links to a range of art blogs that are worth exploring.
National
Arts Education Association - NAEA
Resources for those studying Art Education.
Art and Design Periodicals in Print
Graphic Design Books in the UMD Library
Art and Design Reference Books
See a list of Videos and DVDs on Art in the UMD Library
Search DVD's and Videocassettes in the UMD Library
Where to go in the library if you want to browse
Browsing can be a great way to make discoveries in your areas of interest.
The books in the UMD library are all shelved according to the Library of Congress Classification System.
The visual arts have an entire class devoted to them: class N. All call numbers beginning with N are for some aspect of the visual arts. The books in this class that can be checked out are on the fourth floor of the library, while the reference books are on the second floor, behind the reference desk.
N: general works, art theory, art technique, art history and art criticism
NA: architecture.
NB: sculpture
NC: some graphic design; mostly commercial art, posters, illustration and drawing.
ND: painting, including the history of painting and different forms of painting (portraits, watercolor, murals, etc.)
NE: print media (woodcuts and block printing, metal engraving, etching and aquatint, lithography, etc.)
NK: lots of graphic design; also decorative arts, including applied arts and crafts, decoration and ornament, antiques, arts & crafts movement, interior decorating, ceramics, costume, enamel and glass, metalwork, textiles and woodwork.
NX: works relating to more than one of the fine arts at a time.
The books on Photography are in another section: TR. When the Library of Congress Classification system was set up in the 19th Century, photography was classed with "technology," and that way of thinking survives in its current classification ("T" for "technology.")
TS 171 is industrial design.
Typography and book design is in Z 100 to Z 300.
Those interested in art history should consider also looking in the large D class, which is for history, by region and country.
For books on art and photography, don't overlook the library's Folio (big book) section, which is at the end of the room on the fourth floor, past the Z class.
Art and Design UMD
UMD Department of Art & Design
UMD Catalog - Art & Design (details, majors and minors, etc.)
Your Librarian for Art + Design is...
Rory
Litwin
Library
Rm. 268
218-726-7896
Email: rlitwin@d.umn.edu
Contact him with any questions that you may have about information resources in Art +Design.
Faculty members in the Dept. of Art + Design have their own resource page.
Page last updated 11/13/2006
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