Collection Development Policy
Architecture

 

PROGRAMS AND CLIENTELE SUPPORTED:

Teaching and research to the masters level are supported in the following areas: classical architecture, urban design; especially Chicago and Rome; architectural history, design and theory, classical revival in English and American architecture and interior design, 20th century Italian architecture, church architecture, structural mechanics and building technology.

SUBJECT LIAISON:

Jane Devine
117 Bond Hall
Architecture Library
(574) 631-9401
Devine.6@nd.edu
FAX: (574) 631-9662

CONSPECTUS: None

GENERAL COLLECTING GUIDELINES:

Languages: The primary language of the collection is English. Italian language materials are acquired through the Cassalini Libri approval plan. German language materials are acquired selectively. Classical treatises are acquired in reprint in the original Latin, whenever possible.

Chronological: No limitation.

Treatment of subject: Scholarly treatments and books focusing on design, individual architects, classical architecture, the classical revival, and church architecture are collected. Materials in structural, mechanical and environmental systems and CAD are collected selectively.

Types of material: The collection includes treatises, directories, encyclopedias, atlases, journals, folio volumes, and collected works. Important materials available only on microform are also acquired.

COORDINATION INFORMATION:

There is coordination with American Studies, the Medieval Institute, Art History, and Engineering.


COLLECTING LEVELS:

Subject		Class		Collecting Level
Pre-Columbian architecture		E 59 .A67		2
Pre-Columbian city plan		E 59 .C55		1
Pre-Columbian dwellings		E 59 .D9		1
Indians of North America		E
Architecture		E 98 .A63		2
Dwellings		E 98 . D9		1
Urban planning		HT 156-178		1
Architecture		NA 1-130
General		NA 1-100		2
Historic preservation		NA 105-109		2
Licensing of architects		NA 120-130		1
Architectural history		NA 200-1613		2
General		NA 200-204		2
Primitive		NA 205-207		2
Ancient		NA 210-251		2
Classical		NA 260-340		3
Medieval		NA 350-489		2
Early Christian		NA 360-365		2
Byzantine		NA 370-373		1
Islamic		NA 380-389		1
Romanesque		NA 390-419		2
Norman architecture		NA 423		1
Gothic architecture		NA 440-489		2
Military architecture		NA 490-497		1
Modern architecture		NA 500-680		2
Renaissance architecture		NA 510-575		2
Baroque, Roccoco		NA 590		2
Neo-classicism		NA 600		3
Gothic revival		NA 610		2
18th century		NA 627-640		2
19th century		NA 645-670		2
20th century		NA 680		2
Arch. of special countries		NA 710-1613		2
Special architects		NA 737		3
Architecture as a profession		NA 1995-1997		1
Study and teaching		NA 2000-2320		1
Competitions		NA 2335-2360		2
Museums		NA 2400-2420		1
Exhibitions		NA 2430-2460		1
General works		NA 2500-4050
Aesthetics, architectonics		NA 2500		2
Handbooks		NA 2510-2599		2
General treatises		NA 2515-2522		2
Architecture and the handicapped		NA 2545		2
Atlases		NA 2600-2635		2
Architectural drawing		NA 2700-2725		2
Architectural design		NA 2750-2817		2
Orders of architecture		NA 2810-2817		3
Architectural details		NA 2835-3070		2
Architectural decorations		NA 3310-4050		2
Special classes buildings		NA 4100-8480
Classed by material		NA 4100-4145		2
Classed by form		NA 4150-4160		2
Basilicas		NA 4150		2
Classed by use		NA 4170-8480		2
Public buildings		NA 4170-7020		2
Capitols		NA 4410-4417		1
Religious buildings		NA 4510-6113		3
Non-Christian		NA 4610-4710		1
Christian architecture		NA 4790-5095		2
Religious architecture of special count.		NA 5201-6113		2
Commercial buildings		NA 6210-6280		2
Education buildings		NA 6590-6597		1
Domestic architecture		NA 7100-7786		1
Hotels		NA 7800-7845		1
Restaurants		NA 7858		1
Apartment buildings		NA 7860		1
Aesthetics of cities		NA 9000-9425
General		NA 9000-9045		2
History		NA 9085		2
Interior decoration		NK 1700-2750
History and styles		NK 1710-2004		1
Furniture, history		NK 2200-2694		1
Chairs, tables		NK 2713-2750		1
Landscape architecture		SB 469-476		2
Building construction		TH 1-858
Architectural engineering		TH 845-895		1
Details in building design		TH 2031-3000		1
Buildings		TH 4021-4970		1
Environmental engineering of buildings		TH 6014-6887		1
HVAC		TH 7005-7699		1
Lighting		TH 7700-7975		1
Decoration		TH 8001-8581		1

 

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS:

The Architecture Library has two endowed funds: the Thomas and Anne Wamser Family Endowment in Architecture and the Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Collection in Architecture.

The Hesburgh Library and the Medieval Institute also have some holdings in architecture.

 

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