Architecture and Building

RESOURCES BY TOPIC

Topics covered by this guide include architecture, building and construction, design, housing, planning, preservation, facility management, energy and the environment, and landscape architecture. Types of listings range from discussion groups to electronic publications to databases -- and of course a wide variety of websites. This is a selective guide. Links to more comprehensive link collections are included. For some topics just one or two sites with good links to the net resources in that topic are listed. Although the emphasis is on quality sites, sometimes sites that are currently not well-developed but show promise of being so are included.

This guide, started in 1993, is posted to the UNLV Libraries Architecture Studies Library page [/arch/rsrce/webresources/index.php]. Additions and corrections, as well as suggestions for categories, can be sent to Jeanne Brown (jeanne.brown@unlv.edu), head of the UNLV Architecture Studies Library. Permission is granted to use this material for non-commercial purposes, provided the author (Jeanne Brown) is credited.
This Architecture Internet Database is very extensive.
Scroll down, use ->EDIT ->FIND , or the hotkeys Control F to search within these pages.

Architecture Internet Resources -> Resources -> Libraries -> Library Catalogs

Resources for: Library Catalogs

AIA Library catalog [http://library.aia.org/]
Last accessed 1/03, 06/08.

Arizona State University [http://library.lib.asu.edu/]
Arizona State University has an architecture collection of about 20,000 volumes, and a specialization in solar and energy efficient design.

Art Institute of Chicago Ryerson and Burnham Libraries [http://ryerson.artic.edu/]
Last accessed 1/03.

Boston Architectural Center Library Catalog [http://library.the-bac.edu]
Last accessed 1/03.

Columbia's Avery Library Catalog Clio [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/clio/]
Last accessed 1/03, 6/08.

EPA National Catalog (OLS) [http://www.epa.gov/libraries/ols.htm]
"The Online Library System (OLS) for EPA’s National Library Network consists of several related databases that comprise the shared library catalog. Use OLS to locate books, reports, journals, and audiovisual materials on a variety of topics. Then contact your local public, corporate or academic library to arrange for a loan." Last accessed 11/08.

Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities Library Catalog [http://opac.pub.getty.edu]
Records of book and serial titles, and descriptions of archival and photograph collections.

Harvard University [http://128.103.60.91]
Last accessed 1/03.

Library of Congress Catalog LOCIS [http://catalog.loc.gov/]
Last accessed 1/03.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) [http://www.nist.gov/welcome.html]
This site lists programs and general information including: It also has an index of the <em>Journal of Research</em> available online in full text that can be search by subject of author.. AW 4/99

National Trust Library Catalog [http://catalog.umd.edu/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b&local_base=cp]
Last accessed 1/03.

Rensselaer Polytechnic [http://opac.lib.rpi.edu/]
About 30,000 volumes in architecture, with a special interest in emerging technologies, and a separate architecture slides database.

RIBA Library Catalog [http://www.architecture.com/LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs/RIBALibrary/Catalogue.aspx]
Catalog/index including books, articles, slides, drawings, photographs, manuscripts. 10/99, last accessed 7/08.

Smithsonian [http://www.si.edu/]
"In 1826, James Smithson, a British scientist, drew up his last will and testament, naming his nephew as beneficiary. Smithson stipulated that, should the nephew die without heirs (as he would in 1835), the estate should go “to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.”" Last accessed 1/03.

SPIRO, Architecture Image Library, Query Form [http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/spiro/]
"SPIRO is the visual online public access catalog to the 35mm slide collection of the Architecture Visual Resources Library (AVRL) at the University of California at Berkeley. The collection numbers over 250,000 slides and 20,000 photographs. SPIRO content is the responsibility of AVRL, while programming and system support is provided by UC Berkeley's Museum Informatics Project (MIP). SPIRO was named in honor of the late architectural historian Professor Emeritus Spiro Kostof, and stands for "Slide and Photograph Image Retrieval Online. SPIRO is freely available on the World Wide Web." 4/02, updated 10/08

University of California Catalog Melvyl [http://melvyl.cdlib.org/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b&local_base=cdl90]
Last accessed 1/03.

University of Maryland College Park [http://www.umd.edu/]
Includes the National Trust Library. Information about the collections, policies and services of the National Trust Library are available at their web site http://www.itd.umd.edu/UMS/UMCP/NTL/ntl.html

University of Michigan [http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b]
Last accessed 1/03.

Yale University Library Catalog (Orbis) [http://orbis.library.yale.edu/]
Last accessed 7/08.