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LRC resources for art, design and photography

Useful books

Planet Banksy
Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2020
The Filmmaker's Guide to Visual Effects
The Artist's Way
Art from the first world war
Art of the second world war
Art Album
Judith Scott : bound & unbound
Connected Cloth
Slow Stitch
The Art of Enameling

e-books

The different e-book collections provide access to a number of useful e-books. You can browse some of the titles in the collections below but there are many more available in each e-book database.

If you are accessing the e-books in college simply click on the book's cover image. If you are accessing the e-books from home follow the access instructions for each database below. 

Credo Reference

How to access Credo Reference from off campus
100 ideas that changed art
100 ideas that changed photography
Animation
Thames & Hudson dictionary of art and artists
Thames & Hudson dictionary of British art
Bloomsbury guide to art
Collins English dictionary
Collins English Polish dictionary
The Columbia Encyclopedia
Thames & Hudson dictionary of graphic design and designers
If the paintings could talk
The essential job interview handbook
Encyclopedia of postmodernism
Product design

Ebook Central

How to access Ebook Central from off campus
AQA AS/A-Level Design and Technology: Fashion and Textiles
AQA AS/A-Level Design and Technology: Product Design
Fashion and Textiles : An Overview
Fashion Design : Process, Innovation and Practice
Fashion Forecasting
Fashion Foundations
Fashion the key concepts
Illustrating Fashion
Studying Creatively : A Creativity Toolkit to Get Your Studies Out of a Rut
Studying for Success
Textile Book

Taylor & Francis

Gale eBooks

How to access Gale eBooks from off campus
Arts and humanities through the eras
Bowling Beatniks and Bell-Bottoms Pop Culture of 20th- and 21st-Century America
Contemporary Fashion 2002
Contemporary Theatre, Film & Television Series
Employment
Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion 2005
Fashion, Costume, and Culture
St James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
Personal Finance
Roaring Twenties Reference Library
The Sixties in America Reference Library
Social Skills

English and Maths e-books in Ebook Central

AQA GCSE English Language Grades 1-5 Student Book
AQA GCSE English Language Grades 5-9 Student Book
Mathematics for Dyslexics : Including Dyscalculia