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Welcome to The Art Institute of Vancouver Library

LIBRARY ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • 8 NEW Digital Resources! Please note that Killer Tracks is no longer offered at the library as we have obtained an even bigger and better online post production audio collection via FirstCom Music. Please inquire at the library if you have any questions regarding any of these new resources. (updated July 21/10)
    • Digital Tutors - Please contact library if you need information as to how to create a user account
    • Access over 11,000 video training tutorials on Maya, ZBrush, Soft Image, Photoshop, Illustrator, and more for your design and digital media needs. To create your personal account User ID: current Ai Vancouver students, faculty, and staff mus use their Ai email accounts (aii.edu / stu.aii.edu). Click on "Create an Account" and use the temporary password that is emailed to you by DT to log into your new account.
    • Encyclopedia Britannica - Please contact library for access codes
    • Enjoy access to encyclopedia articles, multimedia, related Web sites, magazines, and much more, including Merriam-Webster's pop-up Dictionary and Thesaurus
    • Firstcom Music - Please contact library for access codes
      UNLIMITED downloads and full access to Firstcom’s library of over 140,000 post production music tracks. Clips may be included in internet sharing, webcasts, postcasts, cellular and mobile devices and social networks; non-broadcast audio, video, digital media; corporate intranet, and/or closed circuit communications productions. Audio MUST NOT BE USED IN ANY PRODUCTION THAT IS SOLD!
    • Gnomon Workshop - Please contact library for access codes
      Access over 300 online tutorials – that’s over 1000 hours of training – taught by the best in Visual Effects, Concept Design, Illustration, Modeling and Sculpture. Users should have javascript enabled, and their browser cookies preferences set to “accept all cookies.”
    • Literature Online - Please contact library to create user ID for remote access
      The world's largest database on literature and criticism, with over 300 million full-text works of poetry, prose and drama in English, author biographies, and full-text literary reference books and textbooks covering critical terms, literary movements and world fiction
    • Material Connexion - Please contact library to create user ID for remote access
      Material Connexion is a resource for all disciplines of design development - the world’s largest library of advanced, innovative, sustainable materials and processes in the world, providing you with immediate access to over 4,500 materials. For all of your interior, packaging, fashion, and retail design needs
      !
    • Mergent Online- Please contact library for access codes
      Access information on company financials, descriptions, history, property, subsidiaries officers and directors, with additional access to risk ratings, credit information and recommendations.
    • Style Sight- Please contact library for access codes
      With numerous trendboards, over 4 million images on interiors and women's, men's, and children's fashion; concise forecasting and reporting, Style Sight has everything you need to assess current trends and to collaborate and analyze trend forecasts and reports for effective results during the design cycle.
  • Haven't signed up for Getty Images? Now you can do it online. Go to Getty Signup , follow the instructions and get the login information emailed to you within 24 hours. If you have already signed up (you only need to sign up one as a student at AiV) and need this quater's login information, email the library or phone at 778-373-8919 (posted Jan. 19/10)

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Main Library

Mon. - Thurs.      8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Fri.                      8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Sat.                     11:00 am - 5:00 pm Sun.                    CLOSED

Address
2665 Renfrew Street
Vancouver, B.C. V5M 0A7
Tel: 778-373-8919

Culinary Library

 Mon. - Fri.           8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Weekends & Holidays:       CLOSED School Breaks:    CLOSED

Address
300 - 609 Granville St.
Vancouver, B.C. V7Y 1G5
Tel: 778-373-8984

 

Last updated 29 July, 2010