Watson Library has a variety of books and eBooks on Digital Media and related topics. The books listed below are a sampling of what we have available in the library - to find more, check our library catalog, or contact us for help!
The ACM Digital Library is a research, discovery and networking platform containing:
O'Reilly Safari Learning Platform (also referred to as Safari Books Online) provides over 30,000 electronic books in computer science, information technology, and related subjects from two major publishers, O'Reilly & Associates and Pearson Technology Associates.
For access, O'Reilly Safari is unique: unlike other e-book collections at Wilmington College, Safari does not rely on your campus-wide credentials for access; instead, users are only required to provide their Wilmington College email.
Note: The Safari interface can prove confusing for initial access, to view instructions for accessing Safari, go here.
Communication Arts on the campus website.
Credo Reference is our scholarly alternative to Wikipedia. It allows you to search hundreds of reference books on a wide variety of subjects. Use this search box to brows Communication Arts related topics from titles including:
This book demonstrates how ideas influenced and defined graphic design, and how those ideas have manifested themselves in objects of design. The 100 entries, arranged broadly in chronological order, range from technical (overprinting, rub-on designs, split fountain); to stylistic (swashes on caps, loud typography, and white space); to objects (dust jackets, design handbooks); and methods (paper cut-outs, pixelation).
Laurence King 2012
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media is the first comprehensive reference work to which teachers, students, and the curious can quickly turn for reliable information on the key terms and concepts of the field.
Johns Hopkins University Press 2014
Library of Congress Preforming Arts Databases
Library of Congress Moving Image Resource Center
Library of Congress Recorded Sound Reference Center
American Photography: A Century of Images (PBS)
International Center of Photography
American Institute for Graphic Arts
AAWM - American Association of Webmasters
Advertising and Illustrative Photographers Association (AIPA)
International Digital Media Arts Association
Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
