Art & Design: Books

You can also make your own zine. Here is a template to give you an idea of how to make one!

 Zines Research Guide

You can see the Barnitz Collection of Latin American Art History titles here.

RSS feed that you can subscribe to of NEW Art & Communication Design titles!

Texshare - Check out a book from almost anywhere in Texas with one of these cards. Click for information.

Worldcat Searches thousands of libraries -  built-in interlibrary loan request button allows you to get material we don't own.

Search the library catalog for print resources, ebooks, movies, and more!

TIPS:

• Use "Quotes" for Keyword phrase searching
• Click on the book title to see subject headings (example below), if you're having trouble coming up with the right keywords to find your books or articles. 
• Use truncation, for example if searching for political or politics, you can type polit* and get any form of the root word before the *
• Use the subject headings like in the image below to find lists of books about subjects

How to Search for Artists' Books, interesting formats or handmade, in the Library Catalog

Click on image to see details

All exhibition catalogs are not kept in one place on any floor.  

Try a search in the library catalog for the topic word, such as music, art, an artist's name, photography, history or a historical or cultural event with the word "and" and the word "exhibition". You don’t need the word “catalog” unless you really want to limit the results because there are some items with “catalog” in the subject heading. Using just the word “exhibition” will get you a lot more results as it is a more common subject heading with another subject.  For example, searching the library catalog for "music and exhibition" will get you over 100 results which you could narrow down to just under 100 and only books that you can check out by limiting to Alkek General Collection. If you add the word "catalog" it narrows it down to under 30 so you may be missing some good ones by addiing the word "catalog".

 If you have any questions please contact the Art & Design Librarian Tara Smith.

• Library catalog guide
  • How to use the library catalog and locate books in the library by call number.
• Library Directory 
  • Floor information and call number map to find books

Below is a browsing map with different areas of inerest highlighted in yellow to use when you are looking for any image related subject, topic, or medium. Click on the image to download a printable PDF version of it and to see it better. :)

Use the Library Catalog to search the main collection for print resources and ebooks. The Library Catalog also provides location and availability details.