Earlham Libraries Home: ART 200: Ceramics I: Books and Media

Top Tools Ceramics Research for Spring 2020

Earlham Libraries Catalog & Beyond This link opens in a new window
Search for your artist or historic period, or culture. Try limiting to Earlham Library and ebooks.
Art & Architecture Complete This link opens in a new window
Find Scholarly, magazine and newspaper articles.
Try searching your artist, period, or cutlure on one search line, with "ceramics or pottery" in the second line.
Try limiting results to Linked Full Text or Held by Earlham.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Trying searching for your artist, or more likely, culture or time period, and looking for the section on ceramics/pottery.

Books and Media

Most art-related books are located in the "N" call number range, and the oversized shelves, located near the "N's"
Ceramics and some crafts are located in the "TP" call number range. All are located on the third floor of Lilly.

To find all related materials you may need to use multiple search terms. Some example Library of Congress subject headings, which are useful in the library catalog and our ebook collections:
Ceramic sculpture
Ceramic sculpture 20th century
Ceramic sculpture 20th century Japan
Pottery craft
Pottery themes motives
Pottery American
Pottery 19th century
Pottery Mexican 20th century
Pottery 21st century
Porcelain 18th century
Delftware
Mesoamerican art pottery

Earlham Libraries Catalog & Beyond This link opens in a new window
Catalog of books, media, and other materials available in the Earlham Libraries. Also searches libraries worldwide through WorldCat.
Ebook Academic Collection This link opens in a new window A multidisciplinary collection that includes more than 205,000 e-books covering a large selection of academic subjects and features e-books from leading publishers and university presses. All e-books are available with unlimited user access, and new titles are added regularly to the collection.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window Contains over 140,000 ebooks that you can read online or download. Titles also appear in the Library Catalog, but going direct through this link will let you search the full-text of all the books and browse every title. (Formerly ebrary.)