Music, Studio Art, Theater
Communication
Criminal Justice
Sociology
Psychology
Chemistry, Biochemistry
Environmental Sciences
Physics
Geology
Our library uses the Library of Congress Classification system.
To get started searching our physical collection, we recommend starting here:
N Visual Arts (General)
NA Architecture
NB Sculpture
NC Drawing, Design, Illustration
ND Painting
NE Print Media
NK Decorative Arts, Applied Arts
NX Arts in general
If you are still unsure of where to look, please visit the info desk to ask for library student assistance.
Our library uses the Library of Congress Classification system.
To get started searching our physical collection, we recommend starting here:
N Visual Arts (General)
NA Architecture
NB Sculpture
NC Drawing. Design. Illustration
ND Painting
NE Print media
NK Decorative arts. Applied arts
NX Arts in general
If you are still unsure of where to look, please visit the info desk to ask for library student assistance.
The purpose of this Research Guide is to provide you with the specific information and tools that you'll be using to do research. On this page, you will find our librarians' recommendations for best resources for your subject. This includes relevant resources, such as subject specific databases, citation format guidance, search tips, and contact information of the subject librarian
Need additional assistance? Reach out to your subject librarian! We are always happy to help.
Unsure of which Databases to search for Art sources? Here is where we recommend starting:
Art & Architecture Complete is a robust art research database providing full-text art journals, magazines and books, plus detailed indexing and abstracts. Useful for artists, art scholars and designers, it covers fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as architecture and architectural design.
Humanities Source Ultimate offers access to key content covering literary, scholarly and creative thought. It also includes hundreds of scholarly full-text journals cited in leading subject indexes to round out student research.
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Over 77,000 works and basic information about works of art from all areas of the Institute's encyclopedic collection
"The Artists' Bluebook." Information on art, artists, and monetary value.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and Répertoire international de la littérature de l'art (RILA).
"Citation databases for European and American visual arts material published between 1975 and 2007."
CAMEO: Conservation and Art Materials Encyclopedia Online
A searchable wiki based information resource developed by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The International Foundation for Art Research's Catalogues Raisonnés
"Catalogues raisonnés — scholarly compilations of an artist's body of work — are critical tools for researching the provenance and attribution of artwork. Below are two new electronic resources — a database of published catalogues raisonnés and one of catalogues in preparation."
"Resource for modern, post-modern and contemporary design of the 20th-21st centuries where you'll find information on designers and producers, on furniture, lighting, dinnerware and accessories."
Digital Public Library of America
"Brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world."
Gawain Weaver Art Conservation - Photographic Process Controlled Vocabulary
"This list of photographic processes was originally designed as the controlled vocabulary for the photographic process field in a museum database."
"Digitized art history publications, rare books, and related literature."
"Exhibits and collections from museums and archives all around the world."
"A national database of thousands of documents, photographs, and personal stories about public works made possible by the New Deal."
Makers: History of American Studio Craft
Comprehensive history of 20th Century U.S. Studio Craft.
Continually updated pages featuring exhibitions from the 1929 founding of the museum.
MoMA Learning Glossary of Art Terms
MoOM: The Museum of Online Museums
Museum of Fine Arts Boston - The Giza Archives
"A a comprehensive resource for research on Giza. It contains photographs and other documentation from the original Harvard University - Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition (1904 to 1947), from recent MFA fieldwork, and from other expeditions, museums, and universities around the world.
"Advances the understanding, enjoyment, and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media by presenting exhibitions, education programs, significant moving-image works, and interpretive programs, and collecting and preserving moving-image related artifacts. "
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
Journal of Nineteenth Century visual culture.
Northeast Document Conservation Center - Preservation Leaflets
Free preservation advice for a variety of materials and conditions.
Smithsonian American Art Museum Databases
Diretory page for the Smithonian's Art Inventories, Photogrpahic Archive Catalog, and Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index.
8,000 B.C. to the Present.
The Catalog of the Libraries of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"A virtual museum and searchable database of Western (European) fine arts of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism periods (1000-1900), currently containing over 35.100 reproductions."
Search Art libraries world wide for resources.
ALAConnect Digital Collections
"Curated bibliography of quality digital image collections spanning ~85 subjects, including ~950 digital collections, that have been culled primarily from the LibGuides Community, and several subject areas have been further refined by 20 subject liaison librarians at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities."
Archives of American Art Image Gallery
Over 8,000 photographs, letters, sketches, diaries, and other documents which have been scanned and individually described.
"World's largest fine art stock photo archive, with more than 1,000,000 searchable fine art images from the world's leading sources."
Internet encyclopedia for artists, artworks, and art museums.
A place to buy, sell, and research Fine Art, Design, and Decorative Art online.
"Artstor provides faculty and students with a complete image resource in a wide array of subjects with the breadth and depth to add context and examine influences beyond the confines of your discipline."
"An online platform for discovering, learning about, and collecting art. Artsy's growing collection comprises 140,000+ artworks by 25,000+ artists from leading art fairs, galleries, museums, and art institutions.
Digitized materials from a range of Europe's leading galleries, libraries, archives and museums. Includes image, text, sound, and video resources.
Digitized portion "of the more than 1.5 million printed books and manuscripts in the collections of Smithsonian Institution Libraries."
Advanced Google image search.
"Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google."
National Portrait Gallery - Potrait Search
VADS: The Online Resource for Visual Arts
"Visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK."
Duke Libraries digitized collection of over 7,000 U.S.. and Canadian advertisements from 1911 to 1955.
CORSAIR: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Thousands of digitized images from the Pierpont Morgan Library's medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.
Digitized Images from the Bodleian Libraries Special Collections
University of Oxford digitized collections extending from early printing in Europe to The Suez Crisis of 1965.
Smithsonian American Art Museum photograph archives catalog.
National Portrait Gallery - Potrait Search
"over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more."
Perseus Digital Library's Art and Archaeology Artifact Browser
"The library's catalogs document 1305 coins, 1909 vases, 2003 sculptures, 179 sites, 140 gems, and 424 buildings."
Search feature for Yale Digital Commons which allows the searching of over 1,500,000 documents
Library of Congress
Library of Congress American Memory
"Free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience."
Library of Congress Prints and Photos
"Catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division."
Work Projects Administration (WPA) Poster Collection
"The Library of Congress's The Work Projects Administration (WPA) Poster Collection consists of 907 posters produced from 1936 to 1943 by various branches of the WPA."
Do you need access to something we don't have in our library collection? Try Interlibrary loan - the service that allows us to borrow materials from other libraries. Learn more here.
Juniata College
1700 Moore Street
Huntingdon, PA 16652
Juniata College
1815 Moore Street
Huntingdon, PA 16652
