Architecture

Online Resources

• Use Credoreference – includes art & architecture, fashion & theatre, biography, encyclopedias as well as crossword solver and conversion tables.
• Access articles and art images on painting, photography, architecture, jewellery etc as well as information on civilisations and cultures including Africa, China, Europe & Aboriginal Australia with Grove Art.
• Access a variety of national, regional and local newspapers including the Sheffield Star and Yorkshire Post using NewsUK.
• You can check and renew items you have on loan and also reserve items using the online Library Catalogue.
• Use Oxford Reference Online – includes art & architecture, encyclopedias, history, names & places as well as access to 12,000 images and 500+ colour maps and flags.
• Use Oxford Dictionary of National Biography to look through 56,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.
• Access Oxford English Dictionary to trace the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources, from classic literature, specialist periodicals to cookery books and film scripts.
• PN Enquire is a free, 24 hours, 7 days a week online service that enables anyone to ask any question. Hosted by the People’s Network with the active participation of staff from our own library service.
• Search Picture Sheffield and view over 23,000 images of Sheffield, the majority of which were taken before 1950.

Resources in the Library

Books

• Individual architects and styles with emphasis on well established architects.
• Building types e.g. religious, houses, castles, railway stations.
• Work of British architects
• Royal Commission of Historical Monuments County Inventory series for the UK.
• Complete set of Pevsners Building of England
• Survey of London
• Dictionaries of architects and architectural terms

Magazines

• Architects Journal        1960 to date
• Architectural Review    1897 to date
• RIBA Journal                1893 to date