A three minute video screencast with starting point tips on searching SUMMON (the general search engine for SU Libraries collections). Expand the video player to full screen size for the best viewing experience.
Librarian search tip: For optimal control across the widest range of possible search results when seeking more than just a very few sources, be sure to click into "summon" from the blue search box at the top level of the library's homepage. From Summon's homepage, if seeing only a single search query window, click "options" to reveal a wider range of search result refinement features.
Some additional information on physical destinations. Visit these services (and be sure to also consult https//library.syr.edu to review up to date access policies for physical library facilities this Fall connected to COVID_19):
eBooks can be discovered by entering search queries into the advanced Summon search page.
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:
If you prefer to explore specific large eBook databases individually, here is a list of SU Libraries eBook collections
Using Summon's Advanced Search page (or subject heading or subject heading keyword searches in the Classic Catalog), 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 "subject terms" OR - with a name written in first name-last name order - can be searched as an "all fields" 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 SUMMON search results page:
In advanced SUMMON searches subject terms above can be combined with other genre related terms - resulting in searches such as,
War
AND
"Pictorial Works" OR
Pandemic
AND
Photography OR
Fashion
AND
"Pictorial Works"
[and similar combinations]
Circulating books in photography (physical volumes - regular and oversize) reside primarily at Carnegie Library [Library of Congress call numbers that begin with "TR."] 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.
Carnegie Library Book Stacks Closure
Physical Book Locations
– Visit Library Locations or see Bird Library Floor Maps
WorldCat A tool for identifying books and other items on photography, design, advertising, branding, interactive marketing, etc. 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.). If interested in physical travel to other primary source archives outside of Syracuse (e.g., if they are primary collections of images, documents, artifacts pertaining to a specific person or organization), try exploring the database called ArchiveGrid.