LibGuides: Art History: Books

Research Librarian

She/Her

Email Me

Contact:

Meredith Wisner
Librarian for the Arts
mwisner@barnard.edu
Office: 306 Milstein

Mon & Tues: Zoom only
Wed, Thurs, Fri: In-person/Zoom

212.854.7652

Subjects: Architecture, Art History, Dance, Film Studies, First-Year Writing, Music, Theatre

Call Numbers in the Arts

Library of Congress Call Numbers	Subjects
N	Visual Arts
NA	Architecture
NB	Sculpture
NC	Drawing, Design, Illustration
ND	Painting
NE	Print Media
NK	Decorative Arts
NX	Arts in General
Other Useful Call Numbers	Subjects
PR 1560-3300	Performing Arts, Drama, Theater, Film
ML	Music History and Criticism
TR	Photography
TT	Handicrafts. Arts and Crafts

CLIO Catalog Searching

CLIO Catalog

CLIO is the online catalog to Columbia University Libraries (including Barnard), but excluding Teacher's College and the Law Library who maintain their own catalogs. CLIO contains over 7 million records for books, online resources, journals & newspapers, conference proceedings, sound recordings & scores, videos, archival collections & oral history transcripts, online databases, maps & images, and more!

CLIO Search Tips:

Use the Catalog Search to find books, journal and newspaper titles, media materials, musical scores, archival collections and databases (but not articles within databases). You can also find maps and atlases.
Article Search allows you to search articles indexed in all of Columbia's databases
Search for specific e-journal titles using the E-journal Title search
Use the link to Borrow Direct or Interlibrary Loan when the book or media item is checked out.

Finding Books in Art History

General Library Collection Catalogs

CLIO
CLIO catalog allows you to search the complete holdings (books, e-books, media materials, journal databases, and journal articles) within the Columbia Library system.

WorldCat
Contains over 48 million records, covering all materials (books, special collections, DVDs/VHS, serials, etc) cataloged by over 10,000 libraries around the world.

Museum Library Catalogs

Art Discovery Catologue
The Art Discovery Group Catalogue (ADGC) brings together millions of records for art resources from leading art libraries around the globe.
Getty Research Portal
The Getty Research Portal™ is a free online search platform providing worldwide access to an extensive collection of digitized art history texts from a range of institutions. This multilingual and multicultural union catalog affords art historians and other researchers the ability to search and download complete digital copies of publications devoted to art, architecture, material culture, and related fields.
Metropolitan Museum: Watsonline
Thomas J. Watson Library is the central research library of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Its collection of books and periodicals relating to the history of art is one of the most comprehensive in the world. The primary mission of the library is to support the research activities of the Museum staff; in addition, it welcomes a broad range of students and researchers college age and above.
Morgan Library and Museum, CORSAIR
The Morgan Library & Museum's collection is searchable through their database, CORSAIR.
NYARC Arcade
This online catalog from the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC) unites the collections of the Frick Art Reference Library and the libraries of the Brooklyn Museum and The Museum of Modern Art under a single search.
Studio Museum in Harlem
The Studio Museum in Harlem’s permanent collection represents more than 400 artists, spans 200 years of history and includes over 2,200 works of art, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, watercolors, photographs, videos and mixed-media installations.

Art History