Books
/ Media
Find
books / media at Northwest Vista College and other ACCD colleges.
You can check out books, CDs and videos / DVDs.They are all
located in the west wing of the library.
You will need your student ID or a valid picture ID in order
to check out materials.
Art
books are found in the N section in
both the checkout and reference areas.
• To find books about specific artists (example: Andy
Warhol), use keyword searching in the library
catalog
• Paintings by title can be found using the indexes in
books about an artisit or in general art books.
• To find general art books, use the subject search:
Art History OR scan the N area in reference
or checkout.
Library
Catalog [ Search
Tips ]
Search the NVC catalog for books, ebooks,
CDs, and DVDs or search the collections of all ACCD libraries.
Books from other ACCD campuses can be requested at the Reference
Desk. They will be delivered in 3 to 4 days.
Other
Options
WorldCat
Search the collections of libraries world-wide -- about 52,000,000
books. Ask a librarian for help in ordering materials.
Texshare cards
If you want to check something out from another library
in town, you can use a Texshare card to do this. Just stop by
the Reference Desk and we will give you a Texshare card that
will allow you to check out books from other academic libraries
here in San Antonio.
Online
Databases - Find Articles
The online databases
give you access to thousands of scholarly journals, magazines,
newspapers and materials from books. Use your original
PALS username and password to log in to the databases
from off campus.
[
Off-Campus Access Tutorial ]
ArtStor
- comprised of approximately 300,000 digital images and associated
catalog data; the tools to make active use of those images;
and a restricted environment that seeks to balance the interests
and needs of users with those of content providers. The Charter
Collection will provide students, faculty, curators, and staff
with access to a large and expanding resource of digital images
and data for teaching and research in art history,
as well as - more broadly - in the humanities and other disciplines.
Grove
Art Online - Online version of 34 volume set, covers
all forms of the visual arts including painting, sculpture,architecture,
graphic and decorative arts, and photography from prehistory
to the 1990s.
Art
Museum Image Gallery - a
rich digital resource of art images and related multimedia gathered
from the collections of distinguished museums around the world.
It is a rich digital resource of art images, right-cleared for
educational use. Cultures and time periods represented
range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art,
to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese
and Chinese works. The database includes numerous multimedia
files.
Academic Search Premier - contains full text for
nearly 4,650 serials, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed
publications. This scholarly collection offers information in
computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language
and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic
studies, and many more. For search tips,
click on the Help link in the right corner.
Biography
Resource Center - Comprehensive database of biographical
information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history,
around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
It contains approximately 250,000 biographies from respected
Gale Group sources.
Web
Sites American
Art National Gallery of Art
Art
and Architecture Thesaurus On Line
Art Cyclopedia
Art Images for
College Teaching (AICT)
Dallas Museum of
Art
Guggenheim Museum
Kimbell Art Museum
McNay Art Museum
The Menil Collection Houston
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Modern Art Museum –
Fort Worth
Mother
of All Art History Resources
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Museum of Modern Art
National
Museum of American Illustration
San
Antonio Art Museum
Smithsonian
American Art Museum |