Librarian for Architecture

Brooke Henderson
Research & Instruction,
Collections, x3258

Related resources

Library catalog

Interlibrary loan

Writing help (PLTC)

Citing your sources

Art Department

• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals - 1934-present, with selective coverage back to 1741
• Art Full Text - 1984-present
• Art Index Retrospective - 1929-1984
• Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) - 1973-present
• ARTbibliographies Modern - 1974-present
• Periodicals Index Online 1665-1995, coverage varies
• Academic Search Complete - dates vary
• more...

• ARTstor
• Grove Art Online - Art image collections
• Digital Images Collections Wiki - Wellesley College's Visual Resources Dept.
• The Great Buildings Collection
• Cities/Buildings Database - U. of Washington
• Catena: Digital Archive of Historic Gardens + Landscapes - Bard Graduate Center

• Architecture and Building - University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Society of Architectural Historians Resources
• Voice of the Shuttle - Architecture
• Internet Public Library - Architecture
• more...

• tip: use an encyclopedia or survey book for a quick overview, to develop vocabulary for searching, and for further sources
• Oxford Art Online (includes Grove Art Online)
• Encyclopedia of World Art - Art Ref N31 .E533
• A Dictionary of Architecture - Art Ref NA31 .C86 1999
• World Architecture 1900-2000 : A Critical Mosaic - Art Library NA680 .W67 1999
• The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture - Art Oversize NA687 .P46 2004
• more...

• Wellesley College library catalog - click on the NExpress buttons to request items that are checked out or that Wellesley doesn't own
  
• search WorldCat for items Wellesley doesn't own - click on the Find It! Wellesley button to request them

tip: try a subject search in the library catalog:

• Architecture, Islamic
• Women Architects
• City Planning--History

tip: try a keyword search with key concepts in architecture:

• modernism architecture
• architecture renaissance italian
• preservation architecture

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Wellesley College Library • WCIS • Brooke Henderson • last modified: March 12, 2009