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Visual Culture: Find Books

Start here! Recommended eBooks

These E-Books are a great starting point for your research!

Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
Online
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
Online
Grove Art Online
Online
Oxford Art Online
Online

Find Visual Culture Books in the Library Catalogue

There are several different ways to search the library catalogue to find books that will help with your Art History research:

How to find a Book on the Shelf

This guide explains how to find a book on the shelf using the Call Number from the record in the Library Catalogue.

e.g. HA 1107.5.EW5 1972

How to Find a Book on the Shelf
This guide explains how to find a book on the shelf with its Call Number from the Library Catalogue.

Need Even More Books? Try our Interloan service

If you need a book that is not available here at Otago, you can borrow it from another NZ or Australian library for free!

Interloan service
The Interloan service enables library users to search for items, create requests for items not held in the University of Otago Library, and monitor the progress of those requests.

Te Puna Search: New Zealand National Union Catalogue This link opens in a new window
Search the 'New Zealand National Bibliographic Database' to search for books held in libraries throughout New Zealand. Request books through the Get It Interloan service (see above).

Start here! Recommended Books

These Recommended Books are a great starting point for your research!