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To find books on a particular subject, use a keyword search on the library catalogue, for example:
Simple keyword searching often retrieves a large number of results from a range of subject areas. You might want to limit your search by adding more words from your keyword list, for example:
contemporary art and photograph
Most items in the library catalogue are tagged with a subject heading. These headings form helpful and browsable lists of subject resources in the library catalogue. Subject headings can be broad or specific. For example, some Visual and Practice-based Art subject headings include:
Portrait Photography -- exhibitions
Click on the subject headings attached to the items you find or search by subject to discover more resources. Not all the results will be books; there may be other materials such as online resources and media items.
Don't forget that you can have books sent from other branch libraries to your campus for pick-up.
View a list of new Art, Design and Architecture books in the library catalogue.
Use the library catalogue to search for relevant books, printed versions of journals and newspapers etc.
You can also browse the shelves. Books on Visual Art are between the call numbers 700-780
700-709 The Arts
710-719 Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture
720-729 Architecture
730-739 Sculpture
740-749 Drawing, graphic and decorative arts
750-759 Painting
760-769 Printmaking
770-779 Photography
Items listed in other libraries (Australia and overseas) may be obtained using the library’s resource-sharing options, including inter-library loans.
Can't find something, or what you need is unavailable? The following catalogues can be used to find resources in libraries around Australia and the World: