Friday, May 10, 2013

New additions to the library w/e 10 May 2013

The following book has been added to the library:

Forbat, Sophie (ed), 13 Rooms, Kaldor Public Art Project, Sydney, 2013. Call no: SC FOR 2013

The following book has been donated to the library by Simon Betts of the Wimbledon College of Art, London.

Farthing, Stephen (ed), The Good Drawing, CCW Graduate School, London, 2012. Call no.: DR FAR 2012

Many thanks to Simon for his kind donation.

Library update May 2013

The library has now moved into its new premises on the first floor in the Teaching and Studio Building at Glenside.  Come and check it out!

Friday, April 19, 2013

Library update

With the move into our new premises in Glenside, the small temporary library in Portable 1 has now been closed.  The library will re-open in its new permanent home on the 1st floor of the Teaching and Studio Building in Week 1 of Term 2.

Friday, April 12, 2013

New additions to the library w/e 12 April 2013

Strzelecki, Gloria, Jacqueline Hick : born wise, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2013. Call no.: IAA HIC 2013

Allpress, Brent, Barnacle, Robyn, Duxbury, Lesley and Grierson, Elizabeth (eds.), Supervising Practices for Postgraduate Research in Art, Architecture and Design, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, 2012. Call no.: PP ALL 2012 (Staff Room)

We have also received donations of books from Professor Kay Lawrence and In Memoriam Elva Parham and these books will be added to the library in due course.  Many thanks to our donors.

Friday, April 5, 2013

New additions to the library w/e 5 April 2013

Many thanks to the National Portrait Gallery Research Library who have donated the following books:

Our beautiful, dry, and distant texts : art history as writing, James Elkins, Routledge, London, 2000. Call no.: HI ELK 2000

Francis Bacon : five decades, Anthony Bond, Art Gallery of new South Wales, Sydney, 2012. Call no.: IA BAC 2012

Friday, March 15, 2013

New additions to the library 15 March 2013



The following books have been added to the library:

Anna Platten: the devil is in the detail, Tracey Lock-Weir, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2012. Call no.: IAA PLA 2012

Turner from the Tate: the making of a master, Ian Warrell, Tate, London, 2013. Call no.: IA TUR 2013

The following books have been donated to the library:

South Australia illustrated: colonial painting in the land of promise, Jane Hylton, Art Gallery of SA, Adelaide, 2012. Call no.: AUS HYL 2012

The art of looking sideways, Alan Fletcher, Phaidon, London, 2001. Call no.: DE FLE 2001.

The Harold E Mertz Collection of Australian ArtChristie's Australia, Melbourne, 2000. Call no.: GA MER 2000

Ruskin's drawings, Nicholas Penny, Phaidon, Oxford, 1989. Call no.: IA RUS 1989

The two paths : being lectures on art, and its application to decoration and manufacture, delivered in 1858-9, John Ruskin, 1891, G. Allen, Kent. Call no.: IA RUS 1891. Rare books –please speak to the librarian

Ruskin lace & linen work, Elizabeth Prickett, Cumbira, 1997. Call no.: DA PRI 1997. Rare books –please speak to the librarian

Amazing rare things : the art of natural history in the age of discovery, David Attenborough, Royal Collection, London, 2007. Call no.: GA QG 2007

Many thanks to our donors: the Art Gallery of South Australia and Alex, a supporter.

Friday, February 22, 2013

New additions to the library 22 Feb 2013

The following books have been added to the library:

Kindly donated by the Australian Library of Art, State Library of Queensland:

Margaret Olley : The Inner Sanctum, Paintings 2010-2011, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 2012. Call no: IAA OLL 2012
Abstraction 10, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, 2011. Call no: AUS CNG 2011

Kindly donated by the National Gallery of Australia Research Library:

Unexpected Pleasures : The Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery, Susan Cohn (ed.), Rizzoli, New York, 2012. Call no: DE COH 2012

Go figure : contemporary Chinese portraiture, Claire Roberts, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2012. Call no: CL CH 2012

Aida Tomescu : Milky Way, Terence Maloon, Liverpool Street Gallery, 2012. Call no: IAA TOM 2010

Kindly donated by the Australian Academy of Design Library:

Comics, Manga & Co. : die neue deutsche Comic-Kultur = The new culture of German comics , Andreas Platthaus, Goethe-Institut, Munich, 2010. Call no: DE PLA 2010

Kindly donated by Sophie Parker & Sam Noonan:

Invitation and promotion design : ideas with impact, Oscar Asensio, Publishers Group UK, 2008. Call no: PP ASE 2008

Many thanks to our kind donors.

Friday, February 8, 2013

Library hours Term 1, 2013

For Term 1 in 2013, the library will be open weekdays from midday to 1pm and again from 3.30 to 4.30pm.  It will be located in Portable 1 at the Glenside campus, opposite the common room in Portable 3.

A limited number of books will be available including all High Demand books and a selection of texts for Term 1 classes.  All books may be borrowed for 1 week.

Books may not be removed from the library without being signed out - even if it is only for the purpose of photocopying.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Change to librarian's hours

As of the week beginning 4th February, the librarian's hours will be Fridays 9.30am to 4.30pm.  There will also be changes to the library opening hours - please watch this space for news.