Library Guides: Art, Art History, and Design: Books

Books

Books: Notre Dame and Beyond

Hesburgh Libraries Online Catalog (ND Catalog)
ND Catalog lets you search the holdings of the Hesburgh Libraries, Kresge Law, and Holy Cross libraries' catalogs separately or together. It includes content from the University Archives, the Center for Research Libraries, and working papers from the Institute for Latino Studies.
OneSearch
Hesburgh Libraries search facility which searches multiple databases including the catalog and many indexing, abstracting and full-text databases.

WorldCat This link opens in a new window
A worldwide union catalog of thousands of libraries. Books can be borrowed from other libraries using Interlibrary Loan.

Art Discovery Group Catalogue
Combines records from major art libraries (many in Europe) with commercial and freely-accessible collections, portals and repositories. Includes unique art-historical citation resources such as kubikat.

Digital Collections

De Gruyter University Press Library
It brings together eBook collections from more than 27 of the world’s most prestigious university presses and publishing houses, including Harvard, Princeton, and Edinburgh .

Google Books This link opens in a new window
Especially helpful in finding information on specialized topics, including the exact pages within a book where a subject is discussed.
HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Digitized materials from major research libraries.

Getty Research Portal
Digitized resources for the printed literature of art, including fundamental texts, rare books, exhibition catalogues, auction catalogues, and related literature. Free and downloadable.

Locating Print Volumes

Library of Congress Classifications

Hesburgh Library, 8th Floor

Hesburgh Library, Lower Level

N
Visual arts
NA
Architecture - Archicture Library
NB
Sculpture

NC
Drawing, design, and illustration
ND
Painting
NE
Print media

NK
Decorative arts
NK
Arts in general
TR
Photography

GT 500-2400
Costume, dress, fashion
TT
Handicrafts, arts, and crafts
Z 105-276
Typography, book design

Interlibrary Loan

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a system by which libraries share materials with each other.

If people need books not owned locally, their libraries will use WorldCat to find copies and borrow them from other libraries.

Notre Dame's ILL service is under "Services" on the library homepage. Follow that link to establish an account, after which placing a request is easy.

The service is free to individuals at Notre Dame.

Theses and Dissertations

These resources will help you find unpublished theses and dissertations, which present an author's research and findings as part of their degree candidacy or professional qualification.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations This link opens in a new window
Provides information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with subject, title, and author access to almost all American dissertations accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Offers full text for most dissertations (Notre Dame and other) added since 1997. Access info: Access to full text (PDF) of Notre Dame dissertations since 1997, restricted to users with valid Notre Dame NetIDs.

CurateND
Collect your work in CurateND and share it with a worldwide audience.