The Five College Libraries have subscribed to Arts:Search. Formerly known as Design Inform, Arts Search is a portal to three component databases with design journal indexing and abstracting, art & architecture designer profiles and full-text decorative and fine arts journals.
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Berg Fashion Library collects images and encyclopedic coverage of dress and fashion. You can browse by time period back to the 17th century, or place. You can search books and journals by author, title, publication date, etc. and images by object type, date and designer or manufacturer. The Library also includes several lesson plans.
If you’d like help using Berg Fashion Library, ask us!
The Libraries have a trial for Berg Fashion Library which offers a combination of images, e-books, the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, and other fashion reference sources. Students and scholars in disciplines as diverse as anthropology, art history, history, sociology, geography, folklore, museum studies, theatre, and cultural studies as well as fashion and textiles will find the Berg Fashion Library of interest.
The trial continues through October 2, 2013. Please send comments or questions to Jim Kelly, Humanities Research Services Librarian, at 413-545-3981.
Over 350 primary source adult comic series and graphic novels and literary criticism about them are now available in Underground and Independent Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels. You can search by keywords, subjects or title, and browse by character, genre, series and title, subjects and more.
If you have questions about using this new resource, contact a librarian at 413-545-0150.
The Libraries have activated the following reference databases under the ProQuest and Chadwyck Healey names. You may find each resources in the UMass Amherst library catalog or listed in the Libraries’ Research Databases listings:
If you would like assistance using any of these sources, contact a reference librarian.
The Libraries have a trial for Berg Fashion Library which offers a combination of images, e-books, the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, and other fashion reference sources. Students and scholars in disciplines as diverse as anthropology, art history, history, sociology, geography, folklore, museum studies, theatre, and cultural studies as well as fashion and textiles will find the Berg Fashion Library of interest.
The trial continues through September 27th, 2012. Please send comments or questions to Peter Stern, Art Liaison Librarian, at 413-545-3967.
designinform includes Design Abstracts Retrospective with indexing and abstracts for design journals published between 1906-1986; Design ProFILES, a biographical dictionary of designers, craftspeople, artists and architects; and ReVIEW, a collection of full-text art journals from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. You can search each of these databases independently by keyword, or title, country, author, etc.
For assistance using this resource, contact Peter Stern, Art and Architecture liaison librarian, at 413-545-3967.
The Benezit Dictionary of Artists provides biographies, solo exhibitions, museum and gallery holdings, auction records and a bibliography for artists from antiquity to the present day. It also includes images of signatures, monograms and stamps of sale.
The trial goes through December 16th, 2011. Please send comments to Peter Stern, Humanities and Fine Arts Research Services Librarian, at 413-545-3967.
The libraries now have a subscription to MADCAD.com, a collection of building codes, directory of materials suppliers and collection of environmental scope reports. You can search the code book contents, or browse through product categories and reports.
Contact Maxine Schmidt, library liaison to civil and environmental engineering, at 413-545-6739 for assistance using this resource.
Medici.tv has over 600 videos of classical music concerts; opera and ballet performances; composer and artist profiles; and master classes. The service also provides live broadcasts.
The trial goes through April 1st, 1011. Contact Pam Juengling, Music and Dance librarian liaison, at 413-545-1858 with questions or comments.