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Concordia Library organizes its book collection using Library of Congress call numbers such as:

  • N: Visual arts 
  • NA: Architecture
  • NB: Sculpture
  • NC: Drawing
  • ND: Painting
  • NE: Print media
  • NK: Decorative arts
  • NX: Arts in general
  • TR: Photography
  • TT: Crafts & Textiles

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Concordia University Press's series Text/Context featuring writings by Canadian artists.

A picture of a reader's hand pointing to a portrait in an open book "EX.IT Materiali fuori contesto" exhibition catalogue photographed by Rosa Menkman. Licensed to Creative Commons.
A picture of a hand holding the left side of an open book. The pages represent two distinct images - one abstract and the other of an obscured person "Pushing the Canvas" exhibition catalogue photographed by Marc Whathieu. Licensed to Creative Commons.

Search other libraries & Open Access

In addition to the Sofia Discovery tool, check these other resources for ebooks and other digital documents:
  • Art Canada Institute/Institut de 'art canadien (website): provides free access to ebooks on Canadian art.
  • ArtDiscovery Group Catalogue (website): this online portal offers access to library catalogues of art publications, auction catalogues, etc. within the WorldCat environment.
  • Europeana (website): provides access to digitized art books, paintings, museum objects and archival records from European collections.
  • Getty Research Portal (website): provides access to an extensive collection of digitized art history, architecture, and material culture-related texts.
  • Gallica (website): gives access to digitized books, periodicals, maps, and manuscripts from the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and its affiliates.
  • Metropolitan Museum Publications Online (website): provides access to openly accessible titles published by the MET.
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