FASHION PROGRAM RESOURCES

The Art Institute of Vancouver Library carries many Fashion resources that cover a variety of topics such as fashion history, marketing and branding, visual merchandising, textiles, pattern making and draping, fashion forecasting, designers, and much much more. Search the Voyager Library Catalogue to see what resources are available.

See also Program Resources for:

• EVALUATING INFORMATION - Books, Web, & Journals
• RESEARCH, WRITING & COPYRIGHT
• BUSINESS & MARKET RESEARCH RESOURCES

The Art Institute of Vancouver Library uses Library of Congress classification call numbers. Fashion books are found at the Renfrew library in the call number range as follows:

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Fashion periodicals are primarily located at the Renfrew library campus. The following Fashion titles are available in PRINT or ONLINE:

Complete, up-dated information on the magazine collection can be found on the Voyager Library catalogue and a full list of titles can be found HERE.

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The Art Institute of Vancouver Library is proud to offer a collection of excellent databases and online resources that Fashion instructors and students can use. These resources are available for you to use at any of The Art Institute of Vancouver campuses or remotely from home for your study, research, work, and leisure needs.

**Please note that you must obtain the necessary Access USER IDs & Passwords from the library to use these resources.  Please drop by at any Art Institute of Vancouver Library location, call, or email the library staff to obtain the necessary information.**

• Berg Fashion Library
The Berg Fashion Library is a unique online portal which offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and much more.

• Getty Images
  Getty Images User Guide (PDF)
  Over 500K high quality stock imagery. Students may download up to 50 high-resolution images and an unlimited number of low-resolution imagery per quarter. Images are for educational purposes only and using them for any commercial (even non-profit) or non-coursework or non-portfolio related purposes is strictly prohibited.

• H. W. WilsonWeb Omnifile Full Text Select
  Periodical database that provides full-text articles with their accompanying indexing and abstracts on topics in the arts, applied and pure sciences, social science, education, humanities, legal and business fields. Contains full text of articles from over 2500 publications, some back to 1982.

• Material Connexion - Please contact library to create a user account for remote (Home) 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 need. To access off-campus, set up a personal account by clicking here.

• Oxford Art Online
  A comprehensive collection of fine art and architecture images from many of the world's most prestigious art museums, and encyclopedia articles and entries from Groves and Oxford Reference.

• Proquest Bigchalk Electric Library
  ELibrary offers a broad range of full-text and multimedia content, including a digital archive of information sources of more than 2700 full-text periodicals, international newswires, classic books, maps, photographs, and major literary, art, and reference titles.

• Proquest “Big Bundle"
  Proquest Guide (PDF)
  One stop access to THOUSANDS of periodical magazine, newspaper, trade and scholarly publications including Proquest Research Library; ABI Complete which covers business, economics, product and competitive info, corporate and management techniques and strategies; National Newspapers 27 which provides articles from major regional dailies; and Proquest Psychology which encompasses a range of topics from over 500 leading psychology publications

• Style Sight - Please contact library if you need information as to how to create a user account
  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. To create your own student or faculty user account, you must do so on campus by clicking HERE.

• WWD.com (Women's Wear Daily) - Full access available from Campus only. Limited remote/home access.
  WWD is the leading authority for news and trends in the worlds of fashion, beauty and retail, featuring daily headlines and breaking news from all Women's Wear Daily publications..

• DIGITAL JUICE (DJ) – Sound Effects, Animation, Stock Footage, and more. The Digital Juice collection is housed on 2 computers at our Burnaby Library location, and at our Renfrew Location. Explore the DJ hyperlinks to learn more about the collection and find the media that you want. Click on the library/DVD of interest and view the Gallery tab on the DJ website to preview the media. To make things easier for yourself, write down the DVD name and number that you find online, and file number of your media clips and bring that with you to the library

• RECOMMENDED DVDS
  • Canada's Brands: Can they Compete? - instructor use only
  • High Heel Confidential - Instructor use only
  • History of Costume - instructor use only
  • Igniting the Buzz: Cashing in on Cool - Instructor use only
  • Lagerfeld Confidential - documentary film
  • Making it Big: Fashion design for plus sizes - instructor use only
  • The Merchants of Cool - instructor use only
  • The Persuaders - instructor use only
  • Runway to Retail: Business Trends in Fashion - Instructor use only
  • Seamless - documentary film
  • The Selling Game - instructor use only
  • Unzipped - documentary film

Do you know of any other resources to add? Having trouble finding the information that you need? Need the user access codes for these databases? Please contact the Library for help, or if you have any comments or resource suggestions.

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