Historic Preservation: Overview
Key Library Links
Catalog – to locate any item that is available in our libraries, including books, journals, newspapers, and audio/visual materials.
- NA classification – a guide to Architecture -NA classification
Everything – the tab is a great place to start searching through the library’s resources in one simple multidisciplinary search interface. The results will display books, articles, government documents, etc.
Journals- access to thousands of individual journals in electronic and print format. (Cannot search for articles, citation is needed)
Reserve – or Course Reserve: a collection of books or articles (pdfs) set aside at the Circulation Desk by your professor.
Top Architecture Databases: listing of architecture research databases
Research Tips– an online guide designed to help you perform research at the University at Buffalo’s University Libraries, includes citation help. Center for Excellence in Writing - 209 Baldy Hall
My Account & Delivery+ – use for book renewal and interlibrary loan. Journal articles and book chapters are delivered electronically to your email and physical items are made available for pick-up at the UB library of your choice. (free of charge)
Borrowing/Loan Periods:Your UB Card serves as your library card. Current UB students, faculty and staff may use their cards to check out books and other materials at any campus library.
UB Print Anywhere: UB students receive a semesterly quota of free pages to print assignments at any of 40 print station kiosks. Learn how to easily print your assignments from any computer, a computing site, your smartphone, a USB drive and more.
Best Starting Points
- Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library) This link opens in a new windowIncludes subject encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference works in broad subject areas, including issues related to architecture.
- World History (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new windowPrimary sources, media, and reference content contextualizing events from the full sweep of human history
- Grove Art Online This link opens in a new windowCovers all aspects of art worldwide, including architecture and planning, painting, sculpture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography. Provides background information on artists, architects, cities, buildings, periods, styles, and more. Contains bibliographies and links to pertinent definitions and images.
Additional Resources:
Google Books
Well over 15,000,000 books and magazine issues may be searched in Google Books. The numbers grow daily as Google moves forward with its mission of scanning literally all the world's books and magazines. Even materials that are not readable full text are nonetheless searchable. Some texts (pre-1923) may be read in their entirety; while others may be read across a limited number of pages (20% of the book) in 'preview' mode and some are only viewable in snippet view. The latter is the least useful to researchers.
- Click on "Settings" in the upper right-hand corner.
- Click on "Library Links" on the left-hand side
- On the next screen, type University at Buffalo into the "Library Links" box.
- Scroll down and click on "Save"
- Start searching.
- When you link to a full-text article from off campus you will be presented with a log-in screen. Log in with your UBIT name and password.
Librarian
303 Abbott Hall
Buffalo, NY 14214
rmorcutt@buffalo.edu