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BOOKS
Looking for books on Clothing, Apparel or Textiles? Most books are located on floors 2M, 3, or 4M of the Gorgas Library. If you are browsing, here are some call number areas that will have materials:
Floor 2M GT500-2370 Costume, Dress, Fashion Floor 3 NK8800-9505.5 Textile arts Floor 4M TP890-933 Textile Bleaching, dyeing, printing, etc. Floor 4M TS1300-1865 Textile Industries Floor 4M TT490-927 Clothing manufacture. Tailoring. Sewing.
FINDING BOOKS In the Catalog
While browsing the shelves is helpful, the best way to find books is to use the Libraries' online catalog: http://library.ua.edu and search by keyword or subject heading. Some suggested subject headings are:
Clothing and dress
Clothing trade
Costume
Fashion
Fashion drawing
Tailoring
RECOMMENDED DATABASES/INDEXES
Looking for articles? The best place to start looking for articles is in one of the Libraries' databases. What is a database? A database is an organized collection of information (which includes journal, magazine and newspaper articles) that is in an electronic format. Below are some recommended databases to start with if you need to find articles for a research paper. These databases are only a few of the numerous databases the University Library makes available to you. To access these or any other databases, go to http://www.lib.ua.edu/databases/ and go to the appropriate letter for the name of the database, OR go to the Subject Listing for Clothing, Textiles and Interior Design.
Suggested Databases to start with
Art Full Text This database indexes, abstracts, and full-text from international periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Areas covered include archaeology, architecture, art, film, humanities, marketing, motion pictures and photography.
DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) is the leading source of abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards. An indispensable tool for students, researchers, and practitioners worldwide, DAAI covers both new designers and the development of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th century, surveying disciplines including ceramics, glass, jewelery, wood, metalsmithing, graphic design, fashion and clothing, textiles, furniture, interior design, architecture, computer aided design, Web design, computer-generated graphics, animation, product design, industrial design, garden design, and landscape architecture
Textile Technology Index The Textile Technology Index is designed to serve academic institutions and libraries by providing extensive coverage of the scientific and technological aspects of textile production and processing. The Textile Technology Index contains indexing and abstracting for over 400 periodical titles, and for thousands of titles drawn from sources such as books, conferences, theses, technical reports, and trade literature.
Academic Search Premier Academic Search Premier contains the full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. It also contains indexing and abstracts for over 8,000 magazines, news sources and refereed journals in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies and more.
Research Library Complete This resource provides indexing and full text for a basic collection of general-interest, humanities, social science and science periodicals and newspapers; 1986 to present. Divided into Newspapers and periodicals sections.
Print and E-JOURNALS
The library provides server al print and electronic journals for research in Interior Design. To determine whether a particular journal is available as an e-journal, go to the Libraries e-journal page and type in the title of the journal. To locate a print journal, go the library's catalog: http://library.ua.edu and search by journal title. Current issues of print journals can be found in the Periodicals Reading Room on the Second floor and are arranged alphabetically by title. Older issues of print journals are located on floor 4M and are arranged in call number order. Below is a list of journals that may be helpful. E-journals are designated by an (E).
Apparel (E)
Clothing and Textiles Research Journal
Costume (E)
DNR: the magazine
Dress (E)
Fashion Theory (E)
TM: textile month
Textile: the journal of cloth and culture
Textile Horizons
Textile World
WWD (E)
WWD: the magazine (E) available via Factiva in Bruno Library only
Selected Dictionaries and ENCYCLOPEDIAS
If you need a definition, brief introduction to a topic, or images consult a dictionary or an encyclopedia. The library has several dictionaries and encyclopedias, available in the Reference Room on the first floor of Gorgas Library. Below are some sample titles.
Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion
Gorgas Reference GT507.E53 2005 3 vols.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing Through World History
Gorgas Reference GT507.G74 2008 3 vols.
The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Fashion and Fashion Designers
Gorgas Reference GT507.O53 1998x
20,000 Years of Fashion
Gorgas Reference GT510.B6713 1987x
The Complete Costume History
Gorgas Reference GT510.R3313 2003
Encyclopedia of Fashion Accessories
Gorgas Reference GT2050.T67 2003
Encyclopedia of Textiles
Gorgas Reference TS1445.A18 1980
Textile Terms and Definitions
Gorgas Reference TS1309.T47 1991x
In an Influential Fashion
Gorgas Reference TT505.A1 I5 2002
Fairchild Dictionary of Fashion
Gorgas Reference TT503.C34 2003
Contemporary Fashion
Gorgas Reference TT505.A1 C66 2002
IntERNET RESOURCES
Fashion, Jewellry, and Accessories from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Online Fashion Study Collection from Columbia College
Textiles from the Victoria and Albert Museum
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