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Librarian: Denise Cote
Office: SRC 3043b
Phone: (630) 942-2092
E-mail: cotede@cod.edu
The Library has four different types of collections of books.
You can do a "subject" or a "keyword" search to find materials.
Tip: A subject search locks you into just the subject headings; a keyword search looks for your words everywhere in the catalog. Do a keyword to expand your possibilities, but always try a subject search first.
Below are sample Subject searches to get started browsing the books in the Library's General Collection. Take a look at how the subjects are set up: Big to very narrow.
Tip: The Library of Congress subject heading for Interior Design is: "Interior Decoration." sorry! ;)
Subject: Interior Decoration (The BIG topic)
Subject: Interior Decoration History (Narrower topic)
Subject: Interior Decoration United States (Even more narrow)
Draperies (Super narrow topic)
Here are some Interior Design searches done by Keyword:
Keywords: sustainable interior design
There are several encyclopedias, handbooks and dictionaries in the Library to use for a quick lookup. Reference materials are not typically something you sit down and read cover to cover. Here is a selection:
The Library has a small collection of electronic books in the Interior Design and Decoration subject areas, mostly about technical aspects of interior design. You can find these in the Library catalog, but a great place for you to look is in the Knovel Library. Here are a few selections from Knovel:
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