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Facilities and Resources
Online Resources
The online library is located at southerncaiofa.booksys.net/ opac/scaioa/. From the Library Online Portal students can access reference and orientation guides, such as the Kappe Library Study Guides; look up books in the book catalog; find magazine article citations in the Avery Index of Architectural Periodicals; locate information about materials via Material ConneXion; access digital images, full-text newspaper and journal articles, past SCI-Arc lectures, and mapping tools; and renew books and monitor their individual accounts. The library also subscribes to and makes available to students the online resources most useful for architectural research. In addition to the school-wide SCI-Arc wireless access, the library provides a wireless connection for visitors, and maintains six public workstations with internet access, including four scanning workstations. Digital Lecture Archive
SCI-Arc began its video archive before videotaping lectures became standard practice at educational institutions. Because SCI-Arc’s distinctive identity helped to attract the biggest names in architecture to teach and lecture, the archive is considered an important record of architectural discourse in Southern California. The collection is available for students to view in the library and online at sciarc.edu/ lectures archive.php. In 2010, SCI-Arc received two major grants from the Getty Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts to create the SCI-Arc Digital Lecture Archive, an archive to include more than 1,000 hours of these key lectures and symposia from 1974 to the present, which will extend from online to phone apps, e-readers, and other new media. Scheduled to launch in 2012, the archive will be supported by a sophisticated search engine, allowing access to all or specific parts of each lecture. Forming one of the most complete architectural collections of its kind in the world, it will make available never before seen footage of some of the most influential leaders in architecture and design, including Frank O. Gehry, Zaha Hadid, David Hockney, Rem Koolhaas, John Lautner, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Kazuyo Sejima, and many more.