Military Visual Journalism - Reading & Study Skills (Summer 2023)

eBooks can be discovered by entering search queries into the advanced Summon search page.

• Remember to apply content type search result refinements such as - "book/ebook" and also "book chapter"
• To limit what you see exclusively to eBooks, click the search result limit option labeled "items with full text online"
• Also explore other non-book content type categories (e.g., articles, images, video. manuscripts and archival materials, etc.)

When entering general genre or topic or subiect related queries into SUMMON, additional search result refinement categories to pay attention to at the left margin of Summon search results, include:

• Content Type
• Publication Date (e.g., do you seek a specific date range OR do you wish to sort your results in ascending or descending chronological order?)
• Subject Terms (e.g., photography, photographers, photojournalism, motion pictures, etc.)
• Area of Study (e.g., visual arts, journalism & communications, film, etc.)
• Language
• Library Location

If you prefer to explore specific large eBook databases individually, here is a list of SU Libraries eBook collections

Circulating books in photography (physical volumes - regular and oversize) have been recently relocated out of the Carnegie Library [Library of Congress call numbers that begin with "TR."]  and now are located on the 2nd floor of Bird Library, near the current periodicals area.  Also primarily on the 5th floor are book titles covering mass media, television, radio, theatre & film criticism.  Titles with a focus on art criticism, music/music criticism and architectural criticism are on Bird Library's 4th Floor.  Use basic and advanced searches in the SU Libraries Classic Catalog or SUMMON search engine to determine specific titles and locations of interest.

• Your SU ID Card is your library card
• SU graduate students have a borrowing period of one year, and most items can be renewed by clicking on "My Accounts" at top margin of the SU Libraries website.

• SUMMON:  A search engine for most of the Syracuse University Libraries' collections and other resources beyond the SU Libraries.  Includes articles, books, journals, maps, sound recordings, archival materials, government documents, and more.  Use for searching for articles.  Narrow or expand results using multiple search refinements.
• Classic Catalog:  A list of print and electronic materials available in the Syracuse University Libraries.  Includes books, journals, maps, sound recordings, archival materials, government documents and more.  Search by keyword, author, title, subject heading, or call number.

Physical Book Locations

See also Bird Library "Floor Maps" for book call number prefix locations.  Maps for same also located near the elevators on each floor.  SUMMON search results for physical books will lead to library catalog item record pages that include a "map it" feature that will reveal more exact floor and shelving locations for a book(s) of interest than what is shown on more general floor maps 

• TR is the Library of Congress call number prefix for books in Photography (recently relocated from Carnegie Library books stacks to the 2nd floor of Bird Library, nearby the current periodicals section) || N is the prefix for books in Architecture and Fine Arts (Floors 4 and 5, Bird Library) || NC -drawing, design and illustration is Floor 5
• Full Library of Congress Classification Outline - https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/
• Outline of TR call numbers - https://www.loc.gov/aba/cataloging/classification/lcco/lcco_t.pdf

• Outline of N call numbers - https://www.loc.gov/aba/cataloging/classification/lcco/lcco_n.pdf
  • *Another set of volumes of possible interest, serving primarily advertising faculty and students, are post 1950 Art Directors Club and One Show awards volumes the library keep on these non-circulating reference shelves at Bird Library
    "One Show" (call number:  NC 1001.5 O53) and "Art Directors Club" (call numbers: NC 997 A1 A69 || NC 997 A1 A692) – 2^nd Floor Bird Library/these do not circulate (pre 1950 volumes are in off-site storage)

WorldCat  A tool for identifying books available at libraries other than Syracuse University Libraries.  Sorts search results by information format/physical type, thus one can readily identify “books,” “visual material (Video/DVD),” “archival material,” etc.  Books can usually be delivered to SU via interlibrary loan.  Other audiovisual and archival material may require physical travel to view the items and/or the libraries in question may offer fee-based duplication/delivery services.