Art & Art History   Tags: art_education, art_history, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, textiles_rugs  

Now open!

Visual & Performing Arts (VP Arts)
TFDL 3rd floor

• Service desk for Art & Art History as well as Videos and Images
• Collections:
  - Art print reference
  - Art and Architecture booklets (e.g. Canadian exhibition catalogues)
  - Canadian art/architect files
  - Slide collection
  - Video collection
• Video viewing and sound recording listening facilities

TFDL General Collection for:

• Newer and heavily-used print books & journals
• Art books with N-NX call numbers on 5th floor
• TR Photography and TS Design books on 6th floor

For items not in the TFDL, place a HOLD as directed by Library Catalogue.

The Nickle Arts Museum
TFDL 1st Floor - Coming soon under new name: Nickle Galleries

• No exhibitions during move to TFDL

Centre for Arts & Culture
TFDL 5th floor

• Canadian Architectural Archives
• Special Collections:
  - Artists' Books Collection
  - George Morley Cartoon Collection
  - Rare and Historical Architectural Books
  - Canadian Art books
    (search Library Catalogue)
• Offices of Archives, Special Collections, & Nickle Arts Museum staff

TFDL Learning Commons

• Service Desk - 1st floor
• Integrated reference and circulation services
• For research assistance of a general nature
• LCR staff
• Tech Support - 2nd floor
• IT staff

• General orientation to art collections and services
• Assignments and research papers
• Thesis and research literature review assistance
• Electronic databases, including identifying, accessing, searching, and retrieving fulltext articles and high-resolution images 
• E.g. Art Abstracts / Art Index Retrospective 
• E.g. 2 Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)
• E.g. 3 ARTstor digital image database
• Feedback on LCR services
• Book a LCR instruction class for your students and/or have an online handout prepared for a specific art course or assigment.

Recommend an Item for Purchase
Students, faculty and staff can recommend a book, exhibition catalogue, DVD, CD, digital image or other item for purchase.

Donations of books, exhibition catalogues, Canadian artist ephemera, DVDs, CDs, music scores, digital images with copyrights, and, of course, monetary donations are welcome!

Donated material must be in good condition and normally must not duplicate materials already held by LCR.

For further information, contact Molly Taylor, Gifts Coordinator, Collections, MLB425B, Libraries and Cultural Resources; phone: (403) 220-3797.

The Military Museums and Founders' Gallery
Current Exhibitions
4520 Crowchild Trail SW, Calgary