Books are a great place to start your research. They contain useful summaries about what's happening in your field and can help you to establish the key theories and background of your research. Books contain references to other resources that you can explore for more in-depth information.
Search UNIC Library Search or Library Catalogue by title, keyword or author to locate books.
If you are a DL student and you cannot visit the Library to use print books, go to eBooks tab.
A discovery tool allows you to search both Library Catalogue for print material and electronic subscriptions for e-resources.
Enter the title, keyword or author in the search box and either select All Resources (print & electronic) or Library Catalog (print).
Alternatively, you can directly use the Library catalogue to locate books.
Use the following Subject headings to find specific information for your research.
• Art and society
• Art and technology
• Art appreciation
• Art, Byzantine
• History
• Social aspects
• Technique
• Therapy
• Figure drawing, Technique
• Painting technique
• Collage technique
• Art modern, 19th/ 20th Century
• Renaissance
• Sculpture, Modern
• Popular culture
• Women in art
• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Installations
• 3D Studio Motion Pictures
• Cinematography
• Digital cinematography
• Digital media
• Social aspects
• Computer animation
• Video art
• Visual communication
• Intercultural communication
• Photography, Artistic
• Digital techniques
• Philosophy
• Structural design / analysis
• Design
• Space perception
• Computer art
• Artist’s materials
• Academic writing
Below you can find the location of various books relevant to Education in the library according to the Dewey Decimal Classification system:
• 006.7 Multimedia systems
• 111.85 Beauty (Ontology)
• 128.3 Attributes and faculties (humankind)
• 300.72 Social sciences (research methods)
• 301 Sociology and anthropology
• 304.5 Genetic factors
• 305.42 Social role and the status of women
• 306.47 Art (specific aspects of culture)
• 307.1216 City planning
• 322.4 Political action groups
• 338.477 Art Industry
• 372.5 Creative and manual arts
• 686.2 Typography
• 700-709 Art, Philosophy and History
• 730-739 Sculpture and related arts
• 741-743 Illustration / Drawing (Philosophy, techniques and commercial design)
• 741.64092 Illustration
• 745 Decorative arts
• 746 Textile arts
• 750-757 Painting & Paintings
• 759.1-.9 Geographic Treatment
• 760 Specific topics of graphic arts
• 770-778 Photography, computer art, cinematography, videography
• 808 Rhetoric and collections of literary texts
(Note: more books in the same areas can be located in other collections, e.g. Reference Collection, etc.)
Extra Tip!: As well as books specifically covering your subject, the Library also holds lots of titles to help you develop your study skills!