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New Reference Book: Fashion – Critical and Primary Sources

November 8th, 2011

Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources edited by Peter McNeil, Berg, 2009.

Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 391 M23F

This four volume set discusses and presents global fashion and accessories throughout four distinct time periods.  Each volume is devoted to a particular point in time:

  • Volume 1: Late Medieval to Renaissance
  • Volume 2: The Eighteenth Century
  • Volume 3: The Nineteenth Century
  • Volume 4: The Twentieth Century to Today

Helpful for: Fashion Studies, Art, Humanities, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, History

New Reference Book: Fashion, Costume and Culture

October 25th, 2011

Fashion, Costume and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages edited by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, UXL, 2004.

Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 391 P37F

This five volume set discusses and presents global fashion and accessories through five distinct time periods.  Each volume is devoted to a particular point in time.

  • Volume 1: The Ancient World
  • Volume 2: Early Cultures Across the Globe
  • Volume 3: European Culture from the Renaissance to the Modern Era
  • Volume 4: Modern World Part I: 1900-1945
  • Volume 5: Modern World Part II: 1946-2003


Helpful for
: Fashion Studies, Art, Humanities, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, History

New Research Guide: Latin I

October 20th, 2011

A new Latin I research guide is available for those working on the Latin I research project.  Use this guide to identify and review: useful eReference sources, recommended library catalog searches, ArtStor (image source) and Noodlebib citation tutorials.

Please feel free to contact Ms. Sanborn (lsanborn at sps dot edu) for a research consultation and/or to discuss any of the items in this guide.

Accessing eBooks at Ohrstrom

September 29th, 2011

Ohrstrom Library provides access to an ever-growing collection of eBooks.  The library currently has 86,000+ eBooks available, all with unlimited simultaneous user access.

There are two methods of locating eBooks: using the online catalog or by visiting any of the library’s individual eBook collections available on the library’s eBook page.

Library eBook collections are viewable on most versions of the following: PCs, tablets and hand-held devices.

This short video tutorial describes accessing the libraries eBooks and demonstrates two of the library’s current collections:

As always, when accessing the library’s digital collections when off the grounds, please log in with your SPS user credentials to: vpn.sps.edu

Please feel free to contact Lura Sanborn (lsanborn at sps dot edu) with your question(s) about the library’s eBook collections.

New Reference Book: The History of British Art

February 15th, 2011

The History of British Art by edited by Tim Ayers, Yale, 2009.

Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 709.41 B51H

A 3-volume set that chronologically discusses British Art from 600 to the present.

Examples include: Westminster Abbey, Signs of the Cross; Medieval Religious Images and the Interpretation of Scripture, British Art and the Social World, Watercolour Painting in the Eighteenth Century, Going Modern

Helpful for: Humanities, Humanities V,  European  History, Humanities V Art Paper, Fine Arts

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