Library

Library of the Academy of Architecture

Digital information? •

Digitization of information has the last decades expanded enormously. So strong in fact that it is often forgotten that not everything can be found on the internet. Books and magazines are still indispensable in the search for information.

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Especially in the art and design disciplines is digitization of information less common than in other disciplines. Still every year thousands of book titles appear and worldwide is the selection of architecture magazines around 800. Note that for the majority counts that they are in paper form.

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To retrieve and access information of books and magazines there are catalogs and databases This mainly concerns bibliographic information leading to books and articles in magazines. On this moment hardly anything is full text available.

Book collection The library has a specialised collection of more than 12,000 titles in the field of architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture.

There is also a large background collection of books and periodicals from the period 1880-1945.

Books by subject

Subject information on the side of the bookcases .

Journal collection There are 40 subscriptions to the main Dutch and international journals. There is also a large background collection of periodicals from the period 19001975.

Back issues in the back

Acquisitions

Atlasses

DVD’s and Maps

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Topographic Maps Netherlands 1:25.000 and 1:50.000 Geomorphological Maps Soil Maps Historical Military Maps Water Maps all 1:50.000

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Maps Amsterdam 1:2000 1:5000 1:10,000 Historical maps

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Later more about digital maps

Study facilities • •

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computers multifunctional, copy/print and scan on A4 and A3 A3 flatbed scan digital camera Canon EOS 450D wireless network

Digital Maps File ‘Kaarten’ on the desktop of the computers in the library Maps: Amsterdam: Large-scale base map Small scale base map Nederland: Topvector 1:10.000 geomorphological maps soil maps

Only for educational purposes

Software on the library computers •

Autocad

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Sketchup

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Adobe-software

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Google Pro

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Kurtzweil (software for reading, writing and studying for dyslectic people)

Questions?

Ask the librarian