RESOURCES FOR VISUAL ARTS, ART HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE:

Nimitz Library:

Dictionary of Art (New York : Grove, 1996)
Reference Stacks - N31 .D5 1996

The Dictionary of Art has been called the most important art reference work of the 20th century. Statistics alone bear witness to its unequalled coverage: 34 volumes, 41,000 articles, 15,000 illustrations, 6,802 contributing scholars from 120 countries.

Humanities Full Text

Provides access to 500 of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines in such fields as archaeology, art, classical studies, communications, film, folklore, gender studies, history, literature, and philosophy. Coverage for indexing begins in 1984; abstracting begins in 1994, and full text of selected titles in 1995.

RLIN Bibliographic File

(Research Libraries Information Network). This is a shared union catalog of some major research and academic libraries. RLIN Bibliographic File lists books, serials, manuscripts, maps, films and other items that are held by these libraries. Password required. USNA users may contact the Reference Desk at x36946.

WorldCat Online

A catalog of more than 24,000 academic, public and special libraries containing more than 36 million records for books, journals, videotapes, books-on-tape, computer files and other materials held in library collections. These records include items in print and out-of-print. A note of caution, many of the items listed in this file may be difficult to obtain due to the esoteric nature of some publications.