Where do I Start? Navigating RensSearch: RPI Libraries' Web Gateway

How do I find Books, Reports, Journals or Magazines,Government Documents, Maps, and Other Publications in the Library and Where are they Shelved?

• The Libraries' Online Card Catalog
  • Searching and Retrieving (identifying topics and searching skills)
  • Location within the libraries
  • Available through other services
    • Connect NY (five NY State libraries)
    • Illiad (Interlibrary loan service)
    • Capital District Library Council (CDLC) (borrowing privileges)
    • WorldCat

How do I find Reference Tools such as Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Directories both in the Libraries and on the Internet?

• Print Indexes, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
• Online Reference Tools
• RensSearch: "Reference Room"
• RensSearch: "Online Reference Tools for Architecture, Visual & Performing Arts"
• RensSearch: "Internet Resources by Subject"

How do I find Journal/Magazine Articles on a Topic?

• General Full Text Sources on RensSearch:Databases
  • Periodical Abstracts Research Library
  • Academic Search Elite
• What is a periodical? (magazine vs. journal)
• Architecture Specific on RensSearch:Databases
• The Avery Index to Architecture Periodicals
• RIBA - British Architectural Library Catalog Online
• Art Specific on RensSearch: Databases
  • Art Abstracts

How do I Locate Images and Multimedia?

• General Image Sources
• Art & Architecture Image Resources

• Multimedia resources

 

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§Need More Help?

• Reference Librarians - Email- Virtual Reference
• Research Guides and Online Tools for Art & Architecture
• Folsom Library Architecture Survival Guide
• Architecture Library Architecture Survival Guide