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Communications Graphics

A Selective Guide to the Library's Resources on This Subject

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Subject Headings
These subject headings may be used to locate books in the Pellissippi Library online catalog: (http://www.pstcc.edu/library/catalog.htm) and netLibrary e-book (http://www.pstcc.edu/library/netlibrary.htm) collection.

Call numbers for browsing
Use this call number to browse the circulating and reference collections: 

Databases

For a complete list of databases:  Databases A-Z

AP Multimedia Archive - contains over 750,000 photos from the Associated Press' photo library and a wide selection of images dating from the 1840s. (Best viewed with Internet Explorer)

General Business File International - indexes more than 2000 periodicals on a variety of topics from 1980 to the current year with full-text coverage of over 1000 publications.

Safari Tech Books Online - Online access to more than 130 recently published information technology books.

* You may access online databases from off-campus computers by entering your general computer account username and password (used for PSTCC e-mail). NOTE: Enter your username in this format example: s_jmdoe. It is not necessary to add "@pstcc.edu" for this application.
Journals and Magazines
The following journals are available at the Pellissippi library in the Reference area. Many journals now have websites, providing the table of contents and access to selected articles in the current printed journal. Many include additional information and resources in certain subjects.
  • HOW
  • Digital Design

Reference Books 

Artist's & graphic designer's market : where & how to sell your illustration, fine art, graphic design & cartoons. Mary Cox, editor. Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest Books, 2004. REF N8600 .A76 2004.  Thorough compilation of addresses and advice for fine and commercial artists with contact information and submission guidelines for magazines, greeting cards, etc.

Computer Graphics Dictionary. edited by Roger T. Stevens. Hingham, MA.: Charles River Media, Inc., 2002. REF T385 .S772 2002. Contains over 4,000 definitions and illustrations of computer graphics topics including animation, artificial intelligence, game programming, networking, digital photography, etc.

The GATF encyclopedia of graphic communications.  Pittsburgh: GATF Press, 1998.REF Z118 .G29 1998.  Contains history, terms, and detailed time line for the graphic communications field.

Typography: An encyclopedic survey of type design and techniques throughout history. New York:  Black Dog & Leventhal, 1998.REF Z 250 .A2 F76 1998.  Gives the origin and history of letters and explanations for their current forms.

Web Resources 

Finding Images on the Web (http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages/

The Font Site (http://www.fontsite.com)

Graphic Artists Guild (HTTP://www.gag.org/) - The Guild is a union that embraces creators of graphic art at all levels of skill and expertise who create works of graphic art intended for presentation as originals or reproductions."

GoGraph  (http://www.gograph.com) - Animated GIF's, icons, photos, and clip art.

Yahoo! Computers and Internet: Graphics (http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Graphics/ ) - Computer graphics resources & links