Some additional information on physical destinations.
Using SU Libraries Search advanced search page, valuable words and phrases for students in visual communications include these subject terms and phrases:
On that same advanced search page - author names (enter: last name, first name) can be searched as "authors" OR as "subjects" OR - with a name written in first name-last name order - can be searched as an "any field" search
To limit results to books or book chapters one can access online, following a search result - apply these refinements from the left column of the SU Libraries Search - search results page:
In advanced searches within SU Libraries Search subject terms above can be combined with other genre related terms - resulting in searches such as,
War
AND
"Pictorial Works" OR
Pandemic
AND
Photography
[and similar combinations]
eBooks can be discovered by entering search queries into the advanced SU Libraries search page.
When using Libraries Search
When entering general genre or topic or subiect related queries into SU Libraries Search, additional search result refinement categories to pay attention to at the left margin search results, include:
If you prefer to explore specific large eBook databases individually, here is a list of SU Libraries eBook collections Examples of specific eBook platforms of potential interest to many Newhouse School students include -
Access to journals and select ebooks published by Cambridge University Press, covering sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Books covering a wide range of subjects, from many publishers
Books, reference works, handbooks, in the social sciences, from Sage and CQ Press.
Screenplays and scholarly books covering filmmaking, film history, screenwriting, and film studies. Includes Global Film and Media Collection, BFI TV Studies, titles from Bloomsbury, Faber and Faber, and several book series from the British Film Institute.
Full-text ebooks published by Springer from across the sciences, mathematics, engineering, business, social sciences, and humanities. Includes titles from Springer, Palgrave McMillan, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, as well as Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science.
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, as well as titles covering drawing, design and illustration. 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 Search to determine specific titles and locations of interest.
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. SU Libraries Search search results for physical books will lead to book 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
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.