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Phone 860.932.4007
Library Hours
Spring Semester Hours for QV Danielson Campus Library
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Monday. 8am-8pm
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Tuesday. 8am-8pm
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Wednesday. 8am-8pm
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Thursday. 8am-8pm
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Friday. 8am-2pm
Spring Semester Hours for QV Willimantic Campus Library
- Monday. 11am-7pm
- Wednesday. 3pm-7pm
Find Art Online
- Google Arts & CultureExplore by time, museum collection, artist, and more.
- Web Gallery of ArtVirtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts from the 3rd to 19th centuries.
- SmartHistory.OrgFree, award-winning digital content includes the expertise of hundreds of leading scholars.
- Art Images for College TeachingUniversity of Michigan collection of public domain works, browsable by major division.
- WikiArt Visual Art Encyclopedia"Our primary goal is to make world’s art accessible to anyone and anywhere. WikiArt already features some 250.000 artworks by 3.000 artists, localized on 8 languages. These artworks are in museums, universities, town halls, and other civic buildings of more than 100 countries. Most of this art is not on public view. With your active involvement, we are planning to cover the entire art history of the Earth, from cave artworks to modern private collections. We also provide you with tools for translation on as many languages as needed."
- Met Open Access DatabaseThe Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art) presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world.
- Smithsonian Digital CollectionsSearch over 16 million records of museum objects, archives and library materials including more than 5.1 million online images, audio & videos and blog posts.
- MoMA CollectionThe Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) provides online access to over 84,000 works of modern and contemporary art.
- Smithsonian National Museum of African ArtLearn about the art and artists whose works make up the collection of the National Museum of African Art. Search by artist or object, browse highlighted themes or exhibitions.
- Peabody Essex Museum: Native American ArtPEM’s renowned collection of Native American art, the oldest ongoing collection in the western hemisphere, contains some of the finest works created over the past several centuries throughout the Americas.
Image & Art Databases
Find high-quality images with these databases.
- Artstor This link opens in a new window Artstor features millions of high-quality images and media from some of the world's top photo archives, museums, libraries, scholars, and artists, including rare materials not available anywhere else. Artstore has Open Access collections from partner museums freely available to all, in areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and educational purposes. All content in Artstor is rights-cleared for education and research.
- JSTOR Archival Journal & Primary Source Collection This link opens in a new window The JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection contains all licensed JSTOR archival journals and primary sources content in a single collection, including Archive Journal Collections and thematic collections; specifically, it includes Arts & Sciences I – XV, Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Jewish Studies, Life Sciences, Public Health, Lives of Literature, Security Studies, and Sustainability journal collections. It also contains four primary source collections, 19th Century British Pamphlets, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and Global Plants. This collection contains 2,877 high quality academic journals from across a wide range of disciplines and hundreds of thousands of primary source items.
- Grove Art Online This link opens in a new window The Grove Dictionary of Art is the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of the visual arts, with 30,000 signed and peer-reviewed articles contributed by nearly 7,000 international scholars. Grove Art features entries on artists, architects, craftsmen, patrons, movements, locations, and periods, as well as bibliographies for further research and thousands of searchable images made available through partnerships with museums, galleries, and other outstanding arts organizations.