Some DELCAT Subject Headings
Costume design -- History -- 20th century -- Encyclopedias
Dior, Christian
Fashion
Fashion -- History -- 20th century -- Encyclopedias
Fashion designers -- Biography -- Encyclopedias
Finding Books
The collection of books on fashion designers is located on the lower level of the Library in the TTs. The history of fashion (costume) and clothing books are shelved on the third floor in the GTs. Books on textiles are often shelved in the TSs.
There are a number of books that provide biographical information on fashion designers in the Reference Room. The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Fashion and Fashion Designers is available as a Reference e-book on the Web.
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Benbow-Pfalzgraf, Taryn, ed. Contemporary Fashion.
2nd ed.
New York: Gale Group, 2002.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref TT505 .A1 C66 2002)
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Stegemeyer, Anne. Who's Who in Fashion.
4th ed.
New York: Fairchild Publications, 2004.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref TT505 .A1 S74 2004)
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Martin, Richard. The St. James Fashion Encyclopedia: A Survey
of Style from 1945 to the Present.
Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1997.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref TT505 .A1 S7 1997)
Searching for Journal and Magazine Articles
Journal and magazine articles are an important source of current information on your topic. Articles on a particular topic can be identified by using the Library's databases at http://www.lib.udel.edu/db/. Some databases provide the full text of the articles they index; some give only the citation you need to locate the print copy in the University of Delaware Library (author, title of article, journal title, date, and page numbers). If the database does not provide the full text of the article, click on the GET IT button (if available) or check DELCAT to see if the Library owns the journal that published the article.
Current issues will be shelved alphabetically in the Periodicals Room next to the Reference Room. Older issues are shelved by their call numbers in the book stacks on the second, third, and lower levels of the Library. Many journals are available in electronic format. Access the e-journals via their URLs in DELCAT or go to the Library's
list of e-journals at http://www.lib.udel.edu/db/ejrnls.html.
Databases
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Academic OneFile
Location: Library Databases [restricted to UD]
- Academic OneFile indexes more than 8,000 journals.
The full text of many articles can be viewed and printed. Content includes
hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as
full-text New York Times articles from 1995 to
the present.
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LexisNexis Academic
Location: Library Databases [restricted to UD]
- Current full-text information from newspapers from around the world and other sources.
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Location: Library Databases [restricted to UD]
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index is an index to a large number of current and retrospective biographical sources. BGMI indexes only works containing multiple biographies; it does not directly index periodical articles or books about an individual.
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Biography Reference Bank
Location: Library Databases [restricted to UD]
- Biography Reference Bank contains Wilson Biographies
Plus Illustrated and Biography Index Plus, in one integrated database. Wilson
Biographies Plus contains more than 95,000 biographies. Wilson
Biographies Plus contains the full text of articles. Biography
Index Plus cites biographical material appearing in periodicals.
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Biography Resource Center
Location: Library Databases [restricted to UD]
- Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
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General BusinessFile ASAP
Location: Library Databases [restricted to UD]
- General BusinessFile ASAP indexes articles in business magazines and journals. The full text of many articles can be viewed and printed. The coverage is 1982 to present.
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Business Source Premier
Location: Library Databases [restricted to UD]
- Business Source Premier provides the full text for more than 2,300 business journals. Coverage varies according to journal; there is some coverage back to 1922.
For Internet resources on FASHION see
"Fashion: A Guide to Internet Resources"
(http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/fash/internet.htm).
This page is maintained by
Linda Lawrence Stein, Reference Department.
Questions or comments?
Version: 03/09
Last modified: 08/19/09
