CCAD Packard Library: Interior Design: Reference

Bloomsbury Design Library

Bloomsbury Design Library This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive coverage of design and crafts worldwide, from 1500 BCE to the present.

Oxford Art Online

Includes:

Grove Art Online
Benezit Dictionary of Artists
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
The Oxford Companion to Western Art

Electronic Reference Databases

AskART Academic This link opens in a new window
Information on historical and contemporary American artists, containing biographies, auction records, images, museum holdings, and bibliographies.
Biography Reference Bank This link opens in a new window
Biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present.

Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance
The antique Greek and Roman monuments known in the Renaissance are indexed with related Renaissance documents (texts and images), and information about locations, persons, & periods.
Cities and Buildings Database (University of Washington)
Images of buildings and cities from across time and throughout the world.

Reference Books in the Library

RSMeans commercial renovation cost data
Call Number: 692.5 R107c 2015
RSMeans Interior cost data
Call Number: 692.505 R107i 2015
On Reserve.
Sweets Green building square foot costbook.
Call Number: 692.5 Sw36g 2014
Time-saver standards for architectural lighting
Call Number: 729.28 St32t,2000
The visual dictionary of buildings
Call Number: 720.3 V829E
ISBN: 1564581020
Labeled illustrations with explanatory text depict historical and contemporary structures, architectural elements, and building components from ancient times to the present.
Time-saver standards for interior design and space planning
Call Number: 729 D356t,2001