What's in the Berg Fashion Library?
The Berg Fashion Library is updated three times a year to keep students, scholars and professionals at the cutting edge of their subject.
Key content:
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Lesson Plans with links through to online content
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The Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online – updated twice a year
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Online exclusive articles available only to subscribers
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E-Book collection: full text of c.70 Berg fashion e-books with regular updates
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An extensive colour image bank with thumbnails that link through to enhanced content. This includes 1,600 images from the V&A Museum's internationally renowned fashion collection; New! 2,000 images from the Commercial Pattern Archive (CoPA) database; New! 1,500 images (of a total 2000 to come) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute collection; 600 images from MoMu Fashion Museum, Belgium; 230 sample images from collections including the London College of Fashion and The Museum at FIT; and 2,000 images from the print encyclopedia
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Links to E-Journals: cross-searchable functionality with Berg fashion e-journals Fashion Theory, Fashion Practice, and Textile for mutual subscribers
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Links at article level to Oxford Art Online
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Classic and Modern Writings on Fashion: 67 seminal pieces on fashion, including classic and contemporary essays and primary sources
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Extra reference resources, such as an A-Z of Fashion* and The Dictionary of Fashion History by Valerie Cumming, C.W. Cunnington and P.E. Cunnington
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Specially-created taxonomy guides users to the information they need, and allows them to refine by place, period, themes, textiles and much more
Key content coming in 2012-2013:
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New online exclusive articles from the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion
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New E-Books
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Content from the Fashion Photography Archive
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Content from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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We will continue to upload the 2,000 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute collection
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More lesson plans and other teaching resources
Other added-value resources for future stages may include the following:
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‘Position papers’ covering the state of the art in fashion research across all fields – from curation to business
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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
* All material from The A-Z of Fashion is © The Gale Group; updates supplied by Berg where indicated
