Search for books here at Millikin's library in the online catalog Millinet.
Books on Fine Arts and Photography:
- Browse the following areas of the library's stacks (third floor) in the following call number ranges:
- N Visual Arts in General
- NA Architecture
- NB Sculpture
- NC Drawing; Design
- ND Painting
- NE Print Media
- NK Decorative Arts
- NX Arts in General
- TR Photography
- TT Handicrafts; Arts & Crafts
Browse by subject in the online catalog:
Sometimes one of the best ways to find books on your topic is to do some subject browsing in the Online catalog.
There are two ways to do this easily:
Number 1
- Do a regular search (either Quick or Advanced) for your topic and find a book that is good for your research.
- In the result list from the search, click on the title of the book so that you can the full record of information about it.
- After the publication information, there is a section called "Subject LCSH".
- This list of the subjects describes the content of the book. If one of these subject headings looks useful for your topic, click on it.
- That will bring you to an alphabetical listing of the subject headings for the online catalog. This listing shows you how many books the library owns which fall into each category.
- Find the category you want and click on it. This brings up the list off books categorized for that subject.
- In either the Advanced or Quick search, type in the term for your search.
- Set the Search By box to Subject or Subject Words.
- Click search, this brings up the alphabetical listing of the subject headings for the online catalog.
- This listing shows you how many books the library owns which fall into each category.
- Find the category you want and click on it. This brings up the list off books categorized for that subject.
- do a search for the artists name: last name, first.
- architecture
- art appreciation
- art history
- ceramics
- drawing
- jewelry
- painting
- photography
- pottery
- prints
- sculpture
- architectural design
- art- study and teaching
- color in design
- drawing- 20th century
- jewelry making
- painting - name of country
- painting- American- exhibitions
- paper, handmade
- phography - artistic
- photography - handbooks manuals
- sculpture - name of country
- sculpture - modern
- sculpture - technique
Number 2
Possible Subject Headings to use as search terms:
Broad Terms with many subcategories:More Specific Subjects Headings to search:
