Databases

Academic Search Premier
An interdisciplinary database that provides full text articles.

Culinary Arts Collection
This database is comprised of more than 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines as well as many reference titles. It provides researchers with recipes, restaurant reviews, industry information and practical instruction.

Gardening, Landscape & Horticulture Collection
A collection of more than 80 journals focused on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture, with the addition of over 20 subject specific reference sources.

Home Improvement Collection
This collection of more than 180 home-improvement focused titles covers such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more.

JSTOR
The Arts & Sciences III Collection includes journals in language and literature, as well as important titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art.  JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.

MasterFILE Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975.

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection
Access the content of more than 100 Oxford reference books online with a single search. Includes the Oxford art and architecture dictionaries and a timeline, as well as food and drink dictionaries.

Web resources

The Costume Page
More than 2,000 unique links to costumes and costume history. Note that this website is updated infrequently.

The Costumer's Manifesto
Look for the link to "history sorted by period"-- a massive collection of links.

Fashion Era
This site covers the last two centuries of fashion.

Home Economics Archive
This site has on-line full-text books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines, published from 1850 to 1950.

Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Costume Institute
The Met put a fraction of its costume collection online, mostly from the twentieth century.

Sense & Sensibility Patterns
This is a commercial website that includes images of costumes from 1795-1959.

La Couturiere Parisienne
This site is all about period costume, from the Middle Ages up to the early 20th century. Access over 3700 costume pictures through a database, read one of hundreds of articles, or download some authentic period patterns.

Dictionaries

Foods and nutrition

A dictionary of food and nutrition (electronic resource)

Dictionary of food ingredients

The cook's dictionary and culinary reference

Webster's new world dictionary of culinary arts

Fashion

Historical dictionary of the fashion industry 

The Fairchild dictionary of fashion

The Thames and Hudson dictionary of fashion and fashion designers

Interior Design

Fairchild's dictionary of textiles

The Penguin dictionary of decorative arts

Encyclopedias

Foods and Nutrition

Encyclopedia of food and culture

Fashion

Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion

In an influential fashion : an encyclopedia of nineteenth-and twentieth-century fashion designers and retailers who transformed dress

The St. James fashion encyclopedia : a survey of style from 1945 to the present

Contemporary fashion

The Greenwood encyclopedia of clothing through world history

The complete costume history : from ancient times to the 19th century

Interior Design

The Grove encyclopedia of decorative arts

The Cambridge history of western textiles

Professional organizations

Fashion Merchandising

International Textiles And Apparel Association

Fashion Group International, Inc.

Interior design

International Association of Interior Designers (IIDA)

American Society of Interior Designers (ASID)

National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA)

National Council of Interior Design Qualifications (NCIDQ)

North West Society of Interior Designers (NWSID)

Interior Design Collaborative Oregon (ICD)

Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC)

Foods

American Dietetic Association (ADA)

International Association of Culinary Professionals

American Culinary Federation

Finding books

By subject search

Below are some links to various subject searches in the catalog. The subject search is a specific and helpful way to find materials about your area of interest. Explore these or try some of your own subject searches using the "Subject" tab in Foxtrax. For more information on "power searching" by subject, ask your reference librarian.

Clothing and Dress

Cookery

Costume

Fashion

Food Habits

Interior Architecture

Interior Decoration

Textiles

By call number

If you want to browse for books in the library, use the call numbers below to find the subject areas that are of interest to you. You can use them to browse the reference section or the main stacks. The Library of Congress website may have a more detailed outline of call numbers for your subject area.

Google Search: Family & Consumer Sciences

This Google Custom Search engine searches quality, discipline specific web sites selected by the librarians.