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Visible Language: Word and/as Image: Finding Books & Films

This is a research guide for Mary Lum's course Visible Language: Word and/as Image (DRW4401.01)

Finding books and more at Crossett Library and beyond

Search the library's resources using a single, comprehensive search box. This tool searches across our physical collections at Crossett and Jennings Music Libraries, as well as journals, articles, and other materials available through our databases. To narrow your results, you can use filters to limit by material type (e.g., ebooks or musical scores), language, date range, full-text and peer-reviewed items, and more.

Search the library catalog, databases, journals & articles.

Find Resources at Other Libraries

If you find a title in Worldcat that is not held by Bennington College, you can request it through Interlibrary Loan by clicking on the "Request Item" button. Your book will be shipped from the lending library to Crossett Library, and you will receive an e-mail when it is ready for pickup.

Interlibrary loan access is included in your library account, and can be accessed here.

Searching the Catalog for Word and Images

Search keywords: 

  • alphabet illustrated
  • typ* design* (the * truncates a word to simultaneously search other words

           with the same root, type, typographic, designing, designers) 

  • videorecording AND graffiti                                          
  • lettering OR calligraphy

Search a broad subject heading:

  • graphic design
  • typography

Search a broad subject heading with sub-divisions:

  • posters -- 20th century
  • design--history                         

Search a narrow subject heading:

  • concrete poetry
  • collage                      

Search a proper name (surname first):

  • Drucker, Johanna
  • Scher, Paula