Find Artists' Book, Rare Books, Livres d'artistes and more in our Special Collection

The library has a collection of rare, valuable and fragile items kept in closed-access storage. The collection covers all aspects of art and design, and includes artists' books and works by and about a range of artists and designers.We now have a way of searching this collection through the library catalogue.  

You just need to put the following phrase into the library catalogue search box:

loantype:(SPEC COLL)

After clicking search, you will have result screen showing all items held within the Special Collection.  Simply add any additional keywords to this search, to find relevant materials we hold there. 

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 Search date ranges

To search in our library catalogue for a range of dates (eg 1998 to 2003) you can use the following syntax:  publishedyear:[1998 TO 2003]