Finding books & ebooks
The Camosun library contains a wide variety of physical and ebooks on art-related topics. Use the tools on this page to start your search.
As you review your search results, you will notice that records for physical books contain a "call number" and a location. Most art books are located on the second floor of the Lansdowne campus library.
Call numbers
A call number is an address which tells you where a resource is located in a library. All hard-copy resources in a library have a unique call number. Because books are arranged in call number order, you will find books on similar subjects located next to one another – this is a fantastic way to discover books related to your topic that you might not already know about.
Most books in the Camosun Library are arranged by the Library of Congress Classification System. The system uses twenty-one basic classes, each of which is identified by a letter of the alphabet. Most of these alphabetical classes are further divided into more specific subclasses, identified by two-letter, or occasionally, three-letter combinations.
Resources related to art, art history, and museum studies can be found in the following call number ranges.
AM1-(501) – Museums, Collectors and collecting
N – Visual arts
NA – Architecture
NB – Sculpture
NC – Drawing, Design, Illustration
ND – Painting
NE – Print media
NK – Decorative Arts
NX – Arts in general
TR – Photography
TR845-899 – Cinematography, Motion pictures
Ebooks and more from Canada Commons
The Canada Commons collection provides content from Canada's scholarly and independent publishers as well as public policy papers from think tanks and government sources. It features a variety of eresources by Indigenous authors and information on Indigenous topics.
Canada Commons collection content is not always represented using the library's Single Search tool. You can access Canada Commons using the links below, or using the A-Z database list to search for the latest holdings in this collection of Canadian eresources.
A collection of ebooks (most with multi-user simultaneous access) and public documents from Canadian scholarly and independent publishers.
If you have a question about gaining access to a specific title, please contact the library.
