Historic Preservation
For assistance, contact Ed Teague, Library subject specialist for Historic Preservation.
Reference sources
A dictionary or encyclopedia provides a useful overview of a subject, assists
in refining the scope of a paper or project, and often have biblographies
or links that facilitate further research. Some key titles are listed below.
Click on print titles (with call numbers) to identify library location and
availability.
- Online & print
- Oxford Reference Online provides full-text of
Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture,
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms,
Oxford Dictionary of Art,
Dictionary of Modern Design,
Oxford Companion to the Garden,
Oxford Companion to the Photograph,
Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance,
Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art, and the
Oxford Companion to Western Art
- Grove Dictionary of Art Online
; online, also in print at [N31
.D5 1996]
This electronic resource, the most extensive art
and architecture encyclopedia, accesses scholarly articles which
are usually supplemented with bibliographies and links to external
web sites featuring relevant images and more information.
Print
- Architects
of Oregon; A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased--19th
and 20th Centuries, by Richard Ellison Ritz. [NA 730 .O7 R58 2003].
- Encyclopedia
of Architecture, Design, Construction, and Engineering. [NA31
.E59 1988 v.1-5]
This five volume set covers all facets of architecture.
- Encyclopedia
of Vernacular Architecture of the World. 3 vols. ]NA208 .E53
1997]
Surveys vernacular building construction, decoration, symbolism,
typologies, functions throughout the world.
- Illustrated
Dictionary of Architectural Preservation, by Ernest E. Burden.
[NA105 .B87 2004]
- Penguin
Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture 5th ed.
[NA31 .F55 1998]Standard, one-volume compendium.
Library catalogs
- UO Library Catalog.
Find books and other cataloged materials owned by the
UO Library through subject, title, author, and keyword searching in
this database. To find journal articles, use the databases listed in
the section above, then use the UO Library Catalog to see if the library
owns the journal title and needed volume.
- Summit.
Summit is the catalog of Orbis Cascade Alliance, a consortium
of NW libraries whose members include UO, University of Washington,
Washington State University, and others.
-
WorldCat.
This database identifies over 50,000,000 library holdings from around
the world.
Key databases for articles and more
Specialized indexes (many in database form) identify information in journal,
newspaper, and magazine articles. Key databases for preservation are listed
below. In many cases, the FindText
software helps identify whether this library owns the needed periodical
article.. Otherwise, a search in the library catalog is required. Articles
not held by the library can be obtained expeditiously from other libraries;
often, a database provides links to enable this service.
- Avery
Index to Architectural Periodicals.
Indexes more than 2,000 periodicals published worldwide on architecture,
city planning, interior design and historic preservation. Coverage is
from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to
the present.
- BCIN, Bibliography
of the Conservation Information Network.
Provides access to over
190,000 bibliographic citations for conservation literature
- AATA Online; Abstracts of International
Conservation Literature.
Indexes and abstracts the international literature of conservation and
heritage management. Updated quarterly, AATA Online currently includes
abstracts of over 100,000 citations, enabling practitioners from many
fields of heritage preservation to identify and select resources relevant
to their work.
- RIBA
Library Catalogue.
An index to over 30,000 books, 150,000 articles from 300 architecture
periodicals in 20 languages, and 23,000 records of drawings, photos,
and manuscripts collected by the Royal Institute of British Architects
Library. It includes records for material catalogued or indexed
since the 1980's.
- Newspaper indexes
are good sources for finding local architectural information. Examples:
Local history & special collections
Images, plans
Visual information is often the most irrefutable documentation (at least before digital photography).
Some sources for plans and images of architecture:
Cultural resource inventories
The National Register of Historic Places and the Historic American Buildings/Engineering Survey (Built in America collection from the Library of Congress) provide documentation, sometimes images, of thousands of historical works. For local information, the UO Libraries hold many cultural and historic resources inventories. Many were prepared by planning departments throughout Oregon during the 1980s with support from the State Historic Preservation Office.
Some examples are below. This keyword search demonstrates one strategy for finding inventories.
Web resources
Several excellent gateways to preservation Web resources have been created to identify the best sites among thousands available via the Internet.
Among the best are the following:
- An extensive list of historic preservation resources accessible on the web is provided by UO's Historic Preservation Program.
- PreserveNet, established in 1994 at Cornell Univ., PreserveNet is designed to provide preservationists with comprehensive access to relevant Web resources.
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