South Seattle Community College Library

"Library Resources for the Arts"

Reference Librarian Patricia Naylor, Instructor

 

Our Library Resources

 

http://www.sccd.ctc.edu/~library/--A good place to start. Here you can access our library catalog, online databases, and popular search engines, through the "Quick Search Databases" drop down menu.

 

http://scclib.sccd.ctc.edu/--Our library catalog. A good trick in searching is to use "Basic Search" and then use "Keyword (Relevance Ranked)." This type of keyword searching will take your vocabulary and give you the nearest match. It also searches the author, title and subject fields. A search like "music AND reggae" will give you information about reggae music as well as materials about Bob Marley and performers in the reggae field.

 

Magazines

·        Popular Photography--Find out which cameras, lenses, digital cameras and accessories rated the best. This is a great magazine for photography techniques as well. Read this before you buy your camera, since it is such expensive equipment.

·        Communication Arts--Every year Communication Arts has a Photography Annual, as well as for Illustration, Design and Advertising. This is great for visual ideas about what kinds of imagining you might want to dabble in.

·        Sheet Music--Filled with easy arrangements of jazz, pop, musicals and country western music among others. This is a great place to go if you have a gig!

·        Film Comment--Perhaps the best magazine in the world about movies, Film Comment offers articles and reviews about recent films, and the film making process.

·        Art News--This is a great source for gallery openings, the most recent art (in full color), historical and current artists, as well as articles about different art movements. This has a lot of articles, and some great full color art.

·        Art Forum--In contrast to Art News, Art Forum is more colorful art, less articles. Both magazines have authoritative, well written articles.

 

Reference Books

Music

·        Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature--REF AI3 .R48 2000

 

·        The Garland encyclopedia of world music--ML100 .G16 1998

 

·        Encyclopedia of Opera-- ML102 .O6 E6

 

·        The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated History of Popular Music--REF ML 3470 .M36 1989

 

·        Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians--REF ML100 .G88 1954

 

·        New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments-- REF ML102 .I5 N48 1984

 

Art

·        The Dictionary of Art-- REF N31 .D5 1996

 

·        Encyclopedia of Living Artists in America--REF N6512 .E45 1990

 

·        History of Modern Art--REF N6490 .A713 1986b

 

·        Contemporary Women Artists--REF N8354 .C66 1999

 

·        Great Artists of the Western World--REF N40 .G77 2001

 

·        Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art-- N7560 .H34 1974b

 

Photography

·        Encyclopedia of Practical Photography--REF TR9 .A46 1977

 

·        The Photography Encyclopedia--REF TR9 .M39 1999

 

Circulating Books

Music

 

·        The Beatles Anthology--ML421 .B4 B4135 2000 [OVERSIZE]

 

·        Heavier Than Heaven: a Biography of Kurt Cobain—ML420 .C59 C76 2001

 

·        Riders on the Storm--ML419 .D46 A3 1991

 

·        The Secret History of Rock--ML3534 .S27 1998

 

·        Jimi Hendrix Voices From Home--ML410 .H476 W55 1995

 

·        Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss-- ML1720 .R6 1985

 

Art

·        Vermeer—ND653 .V5 A8713 1988

 

·        Pre-Raphaelites: Inspiration From the Past-- ND467.5 .P7 H324 1996

 

·        Henri Rousseau-- ND553 .R67 E35 1995 [OVERSIZE]

  

·        Surrealism: the Dream of Revolution-- N6494 .S8 L47 1997

  

·        Gardner's Art Through the Ages-- N5300 .G25 1996

 

 

Photography

·        Ansel Adams—TR140 .A38 1995

  

·        Ruth Bernhard: Between Art & Life—TR140 .B47 M47 1994

 

·        Digital Photography For Dummies—TR267 .K56 1998

 

·        Photography: A Field Guide For Travel & Adventure Photographers Outdoors—TR659.5 .G37 1995

  

·        Looking at Photographs: a Guide to Technical Terms-- TR9 .B35 1991

 

Fiction 

·        Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien—PR6039 .O32 L61 1973 v.1

 

·        Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier—PS3553 .H4367 G57 1999

 

·        Eyre affair : a novel by Jasper Fforde PR6106 .F67 E97 2003

 

·        Hollow chocolate bunnies of the apocalypse by Robert Rankin—PR6068 .A577 H65 2002

  

·        The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike—PS3571 .P4 W5 1984

 

Drawing

·        Basic Figure Drawing Techniques—NC765 .B28 1994

 

·        Learning to Draw—NC730 .K36

 

·        How to Draw What You See—NC730 .D4 1972

 

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