Berg Fashion Library -
the leading source of interdisciplinary information on dress and fashion worldwide
Launching in 2010, the Berg Fashion Library is a unique, important and interdisciplinary new online portal offering fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of content collections - including books, journals and reference works - which will be offered to library customers by annual subscription on a pick and mix basis.
Underpinned by a specially-created taxonomy, the online edition of the new 10-volume Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion will be one of the first 2 resources to be available within the Berg Fashion Library portal.
The Encyclopedia will provide comprehensive and in-depth coverage of all aspects of dress and fashion globally - from pre-history to the present day. It will also include over 3,000 images plus many value added features, such as links to Berg journals and other key sources of information.
A broad and expanding collection of Berg books on world dress and fashion, plus a regularly updated dictionary of key terms and designers, will also be on offer as part of the Berg Fashion Library at launch in 2010.
Future modules under consideration for the Berg Fashion Library include the following:
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A regularly updated abstracting and indexing (A&I) database - covering journal articles, industry literature, books and images - enabling users to locate relevant content with ease through a comprehensive taxonomy, and to gain access to the full text via Open URLs wherever possible
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200 ‘position papers’ (1.7 million words) covering the state of the art in fashion research across all fields - from curation to business
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An image bank with thumbnails (indexed in the A&I database) that link through to enhanced content
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Specially-created materials through which key museums can be visited ‘virtually' – for example, videos of curators introducing major exhibitions and collections with links to exhibits
Click here for information about the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion.
Click here to find out more about the online edition of the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, the first module to be launched within the Berg Fashion Library portal.