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Library Orientation for Architecture

Students

Martin AurandArchitecture Librarian

ma1f@andrew.cmu.edu

Andrew Carnegie founded Carnegie Tech in 1900, and architect Henry Hornbostel designed the campus beginning in 1904.

The Carnegie Tech Campus was

modeled in many respects after

Thomas Jefferson’s design for the University of

Virginia.

But while Jefferson’s

climactic building was the campus library, Carnegie Tech’s was the

power plant with a smokestack.

Carnegie thought libraries were very important, and used his fortune to support hundreds of libraries throughout the country, including a large public

library just down the street from Carnegie Tech. He figured that the Carnegie Tech students could go

there.

This never worked very well, however,

so small libraries sprung up on the

Carnegie Tech campus, including

one in the College of Fine Arts. This room

now houses the Studio for Creative

Inquiry.

When Carnegie Tech and the Mellon Institute for Industrial Research merged in 1967, the new Carnegie Mellon University inherited a library in the Mellon Institute

building. This facility still houses a biology and chemistry library.

When Wean Hall was built in 1972, it included an Engineering and Science Library. Collections

cover topics including engineering, construction,

building materials, computer-aided design, etc.

Meanwhile, a central arts, humanities, and social sciences library was built near the center of the campus in 1957-1961.

Hunt Library was named after donor Roy A. Hunt, an important figure in the aluminum industry. Aluminum was used wherever possible in the building. Students said that the aluminum fins

made the library look like a radiator.

Hunt Library’s generating idea is the book stack. The module of the book stack determines most of the

building’s dimensions and spatial configurations.

Free Web

Deep Web

books books

Use Cameo, the Carnegie Mellon Libraries catalog, to find books in our collections.

Books are shelved by subject using a unique number.

Most architecture books have a number generated by the Dewey Decimal Classification system.

Books are shelved by subject using a unique number.

New architecture books and many other books in the Libraries have a number generated by the Library of Congress Classification system.

Quarto

OVRSZQ

Folio or Elephant Folio

FOLIOS

Octavo

STACKS

Books are also shelved by size.

To find a book you need to know its library, its location (which is often related to size and the floor that it is

on), and its call number.

HUNT OVRSZQ-4 729.28 L7232

articles

Use databases to find articles in periodicals.

The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is a subscription only database that identifies the articles

published in hundreds of architecture periodicals

Avery Index: Advanced Search

reference resources

A Carnegie Mellon Libraries subscription provides access to this online encyclopedia of the arts

(including historic architecture).

A Carnegie Mellon Libraries subscription provides enhanced access to this web site about environmentally responsible building.

digital im

ages / slid

es

Carnegie Mellon Libraries Digital Image Database

ARTstor: A Digital Image Library covering art, architecture, and archaeology, including

Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Art andMuseum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Collection

archives

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> 1 million books> 65,000 arts related books~ 25,000 architecture books 100s subscriptions to online databases 1000s subscriptions to periodicals in paper and online~ 100 subscriptions to architecture periodicals~ 55,000 slides and digital images~ 20,000 architectural drawings + other archival records

access to millions of other items via Interlibrary Loan

1 architecture librarian

Architecture Research Guide web pages provide specific help for doing architectural research.