The Design and Crafts Library

The Design and Crafts Library offers resources in the following subjects: Design, art / arts and crafts, fine art, architecture and other relevant topics.

The collection consists of:

• 50,000 books, catalogues, encyclopaedias and reference books
• 100 journals in subscription
• 500 post-graduate thesis’
• 140 DVDs/videos
• Slides, yearbooks and annual publications

A short guide to the collection

Most of the collection (books, post-graduate thesis’, videos) is classified according to the Dewey Decimal Classification System or UDK. (A classification conversion is taking place at present, ask a librarian for guidance). Parts of the collection including older journal issues are stored in the stacks.
Ask the librarian for help if you need documents from the stacks.

The library subscribes to approximately 100 journals, about 50 in English. The latest issues are arranged alphabetically by title and kept on shelves in the library; back issues are kept underneath the shelves. Journals from previous years are kept in the stacks. Ask the librarian for help if you need older journals. Journals are for use in the library only, but you may make photocopies from them. Reference books are kept in shelves of their own.

A short guide to the collection

Documents acquired after 1975 are registered in [Micromarc] and classified and placed on the shelves according to Dewey/UDK. The document is given a shelf mark consisting of a number followed by a letter or a name.

Equipment in the library

• Three PCs for searching the Mikromarc library catalogue and for information retrieval on the Internet
• 16 study desks and a room for group studies
• A large table where you may read journals
• A photocopier. Copy cards are sold in the reception

News and acquisitions in the library

Every Thursday a selection of new acquisitions  available for reservation are put on display on a table  by the library counter. Lists of new acquisitions are distributed to the departments and is also available on the library’s homepage.