eca library gives you access to a wide range of online research resources. These include various journals databases. Two popular databases are described here:
ARTbibliographies Modern:
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with more than 13,000 new entries being added each year. Full coverage begins in 1974 when the first volume was digitised, but entries date back to the late 1960s.
ABM is the premier source of information on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards, including photography since its invention. It includes abstracts of English and foreign-language material on famous and lesser-known artists, movements, and trends. The coverage of ABM is wide-ranging and includes performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists’ books, theatre arts, conservation, crafts, ceramic and glass art, ethnic arts, graphic and museum design, fashion, and calligraphy, as well as traditional media including illustration, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.
ABM is used by students and researchers around the world to pinpoint publications and writings relevant to their area of study. Its extensive classification system and comprehensive abstracts make it an ideal source for information on artists, art movements, art history and theory, design, photography, and crafts.
Design and Applied Arts Index:
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) is the leading source of abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards. An indispensable tool for students, researchers, and practitioners worldwide, DAAI covers both new designers and the development of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th century, surveying disciplines including ceramics, glass, jewellery, wood, metalsmithing, graphic design, fashion and clothing, textiles, furniture, interior design, architecture, computer aided design, Web design, computer-generated graphics, animation, product design, industrial design, garden design, and landscape architecture. Around 1200 new records are added in each monthly update.
For more information about all our online resources take a look at the library pages on the student portal.
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Quote of the week
Education is not filling a pail, but lighting a fire.
( WB Yeats)
Free e-book on paper model design
Fundamentals of Paper Model Design is a free 2010 ebook by Angel David Guzman. Freely available in PDF format with additional Blender scripts, the 226-page book details how folded paper sculptures can be created using advanced 3D software such as the free open-source Blender suite. The book also gives an overview of other software used to create complex paper models. The book is clearly written and illustrated, and will be of use to a range of professions including contemporary fine artists, book artists, crafts makers, architects, stop-motion animators, stage set designers, and product designers. The book is deeply informed and is generally of a quality that would normally only come from a major publisher. There is a useful eight-page glossary.
Quote of the Week
A person caught in a philosophical confusion is like a man in a room who wants to get out but doesn’t know how. He tries the window but it is too high. He tries the chimney but it is too narrow. And if he would only turn around he would see that the door has been open all the time!
…the problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.
(Wittgenstein, Investigations §109)
Materials library
Did you know we have a collection of materials samples from German supplier Materialworks? More information is available here.
Our Materialworks samples boxes are available at the library service desk for reference purposes. The categories of materials which we currently hold are:
- Translucency
- Wire Mesh
- Sandwich
- Non-woven felts
- Technical textiles
- Flooring
- Metocene
Quote of the Week
Whenever [Brancusi] sensed in us apprehension or distress about our painting, he would bolster our spirits. “Take the bull by the horns, press on, never give up!” Sometimes he would elaborate: “You can’t get to the real things if you don’t repudiate the I… The more you run after fame, the more it will escape you. Turn your back on it, and you’ll be free to make the works that matter.”
(Natalie Dumitresco and Alexandre Istrati, Brancusi)
Quote of the Week
Quality… is what makes art irreplaceable. Quality is constituted by the pleasure, joy, exhilaration, delight, elation, affect, the satisfaction gotten from art. Everything that is in art; the content, the import, the tenor, the drift, the meaning, the significance… -all these things are carried by quality.
(Clement Greenberg, Homemade Esthetics, p106)
Quote of the Week
I think a poor life is lived by anyone who doesn’t regularly take time out to stand and gaze, or sit and listen, or touch, or smell, or brood, without any further end in mind, simply for the satisfaction gotten from that which is gazed at, listened to, touched, smelled, or brooded upon.
(Clement Greenberg in Modernism with a Vengeance, p76)
Quote of the week
‘Simplicity is the whole essence of well-being.’
(Peter Matthiessen in The Snow Leopard)
Self-Issue and Self-Return
Although we are always happy to assist you at the library Issue Desk, there are some very useful Self service facilities that you can take advantage of to make using the library easier for you.
Self-Issue
Our self-issue machine is situated on Level 1, just opposite the Issue Desk.
This easy-to-use machine is a quick and convenient way to borrow or renew books (but not DVDs or Videos) if you don’t want to wait in a queue at the desk.
Remember to read the instructions beside the machine carefully before using it for the first time, or just ask one of the library staff for a demo.
Self-Return
We have a book-drop box for returning items opposite the library issue desk (next to the self-issue machine). The drop box is ideal if you want to pop in to return material and don’t want to wait in a queue. If you intend to borrow more material in the same trip you are best to return the items at the desk, otherwise you might find you have reached your borrowing limit.
The book-drop box is regularly emptied thoughout the day. Any items which are deposited in it at closing time or when the library is closed will be checked-in the next day the library is open. Fines will only be charged if an item was already overdue on the day you put it in the book-drop box.
