Visual Communications

Some additional information on physical destinations.  

• All Library Spaces
• Exhibition Spaces (including Bird Library's 4th Floor Biblio Gallery) [Use the Exhibition Gallery Submission Form if interested in having creative work displayed]
• Digital Scholarship Space (Bird Library Room 458, 4th Floor)
• Blackstone Launchpad (Bird Library, 1st Floor)
• General Library Services Information for Students || for Faculty

Using SU Libraries Search advanced search page, valuable words and phrases for students in visual communications include these subject terms and phrases:

• "Pictorial Works"
• Photography
• Photojournalism
• Design

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:

• RESOURCE TYPE - select "books/ebooks" and also "book chapter"
• and also select the check box for "available online"

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.

IMPORTANT ACCESS NOTE FOR FALL SEMESTER 2024:  The introduction of SU Libraries Search as of late summer, 2024 - involves some continuing migration of electronic resource content into that search environment.  If seeking a comprehensive search through as many relevant ebooks and ebook chapters as possible, do not limit your search queries to SU Libraries Search (unless seeking exclusively physical sources only), but instead, also include searches within several specific eBook collections supported by SU Libraries

When using Libraries Search

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

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:

• Resource Type
• Date(s) (e.g., do you seek a specific date range OR do you wish to sort your results in ascending or descending chronological order?)
• Subject (e.g., photography, photographers, photojournalism, motion pictures, etc.)
• Language
• Library 

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 -

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.  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.

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

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 

• 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.