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Images in Books
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Music/Drama Library
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Research > Images in Books
The UConn Libraries have several million books on hundreds of topics
(sciences, history, places, cultures, objects). Many of them contain photographs,
illustrations, and art reproductions that enhance the text. Below are
instructions for finding books with images.
HOMER Search Strategies
Step 1: Use HOMER's
Keyword, Keyword Boolean, or Advanced search.
Use keywords gleaned from your readings.
Try some advanced search features. For example, you can broaden
your search by typing your search term's root, then a question mark
(see examples below); this is called "truncation,"
and it searches for variants of your word. "How
to Search HOMER" has more tips.
Step 2: Add "visual" terms (see table
below) to your search to narrow your results.
These are used in HOMER to describe books. See examples
below.
Tip: Check an item's "description" (under the "Full
Record" tab) to see if there are illustrations.
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Visual Terms in HOMER
When a book is cataloged, the cataloger types a "description"
that includes terms like "ill" (illustration), "port"
(portrait), or "diagr" (diagram). These terms are searchable.
Use them to limit your results to books containing illustrations, portraits,
diagrams, plates (i.e., high quality glossy reproductions), etc.
Visual Terms
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Instructions: search the abbreviations below in HOMER to
find books with visual content.
Example: ill and russia? and histor?
This finds histories or historical material (about Russia or
Russians) that have illustrations.
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Diagrams
diagr. [one diagram]
diagrs. [more than one]
Facsimiles
facsim.
facsims.
Folded items
fold. [one folded item]
fold. map [one folded map]
fold. tab. front. [table frontispiece]
Frontispiece
front.
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Illustrations
ill.
illus.
ill. (some col.) [some color]
illus. (part col.)
chiefly ill.
illus (36 mounted col.)
Leaves
leaves of plates
Maps
map
maps
maps (part fold.)
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Plans (architectural)
plans
Plates
plates
Portraits
port.
ports.
Tables
table
tables
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Examples
shakespeare and port?
This Keyword Boolean
search finds books mostly on Shakespeare that contain a "portrait"
or "portraits," probably of the playwright.
skey castle? and ill
This Keyword Boolean
search finds "castle" or "castles"; skey
searches for just subject headings; "ill" finds only materials
with illustrations.
skey russia? and skey histor? and ill
Finds books focusing
on Russian history containing at least some illustrations.
Try some more other Boolean strategies, such as using "or"
or parentheses to add terms.
(18th or eighteenth) and (french? or france) and (ill or ills
or illus or plate?)
Allows you to try alternate
spellings, synonyms, or similar concepts. See the Keyword
Boolean search guide (PDF) for more details. (That guide was written
with music in mind, but the concepts apply here.)
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Find Pictorial Works
Some books are "picture books" focusing on a region, event,
people, culture, or discipline (e.g., music).
To find picture books: add the word pictorial to your
HOMER Keyword Boolean searches.
Also try iconograph? (type the question mark).
Example: music? and pictorial
Finds books devoted
to reproducing pictures depicting music and musicians.
Example: russia? and history and pictorial
Finds books devoted
to reproducing pictures of Russian history.
Example: war and pictorial
Finds books devoted
to reproducing pictures of war. To find more books, click on the record
of one book of interest, look at the subject headings, then click
on an appropriate heading to find more books on the topic (e.g., World
War II).
Example: civil and war and pictorial
Narrows down to a particular
war. Study the subject headings of any appropriate books you find
to get ideas for other related terms.
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