HKB Media Library

Art and art education

• Artists’ monographs and exhibition catalogues

• Theory and philosophy of art

• Art history, art epochs, art movements

• Sculpture

• Painting

• Drawing

• Illustration

• Graffiti

• Comics

• Performing arts

• Media art

Architecture

• Architects’ monographs

• History of architecture

• Architectural theory

• Urban development

• Landscape and garden architecture

• Interior design

Design

• Designers’ monographs

• History of design

• Design theory

• Industrial design

• Graphic design, visual communication and commercial art

Handicrafts and decorative art

• Woodworking

• Textile design and fashion

• Paper design

Graphic art

• History of graphic art

• Print methods

• Graphic printing

Photography, film, animation

• Photographs’ monographs

• History and theory of photography

• Documentary photography

• Architectural photography

• Artistic photography

• Cinematography

• History of film

• Film technology

• Film criticism

• Film theory

• Animation

Other

• Philosophy

• Sociology

• Pedagogy

• Psychology

• Theatre

• Film library (feature films, documentaries, animated films)

• Physics, chemistry and biology
• Paints, binding agents, solvents, varnish
• Painting and sculpture
• Graphics and written material
• Photography, film and video
• Architecture, interior design and furniture
• Modern materials and media
• Art history
• Art epochs and movements
• Iconography
• Sources

BFH swisscovery is a search platform that covers the libraries of the Bern University of Applied Sciences and the Magglingen sports media library at EHSM. Searches can be extended to the holdings of all 475 participating libraries.

Prometheus

Prometheus is a digital image archive that combines 94 institutional, museum and research databases in a single interface. Members of HKB can access more than 1.7 million high-quality, digitised images in the arts, culture and history on campus or via a VPN.

Artstor

Artstor is a non-profit organisation that builds and distributes the Digital Library, an online resource containing more than 1.9 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities and social sciences.

e-norm (Schweizerische Normen-Vereinigung SNV)

Approximately 37,000 standards from the SN (INB/SWISSMEM), ISO and Electrosuisse collections.
To access the database, please contact the HKB Media Library, mediothek@hkb.bfh.ch.

EAI Electronic Arts Intermix

This collection of video and media art contains works of art from the beginnings in the 1960s until today.

swissuniversities

Access links to electronic sources of information, including specialist databases, journals and books, for students and staff of the Swiss universities of applied sciences. The universities of applied sciences maintain joint subscriptions to these sources. Free access from the university network. The platform also lists a number of important sources of information that are accessible for free.

Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB)

The EZB (Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek) is dedicated to facilitating the efficient use of academic journals online. It offers instant, structured, uniform access to full-text academic journals. Members of Bern University of Applied Sciences can use a VPN (Virtual Private Network) to access the databases externally.

e-periodica

e-periodica is the ETH library’s platform for digitised Swiss journals. Its oldest holdings date back to the early eighteenth century. The stock is constantly updated to include the latest issues. All journals held by the platform are accessible for free. Depending on the agreement with the respective publisher, there may be an embargo on recent issues.

JSTOR

JSTOR is a non-profit organisation based in New York. It operates a fee-based online archive containing older issues of select specialist journals.
Any publications (papers, journals, books and primary sources) that have been licensed can be viewed, printed and downloaded externally via a VPN (virtual private network).

Schweizerisches Zeitschriftenportal (SZP)

The SZP (Schweizerisches Zeitschriftenportal) is a service offered by the Swiss National Library and the regional associations and libraries. The portal supports meta searches for journal articles in Switzerland’s main library catalogues.

Lost Art Internet Database Deutschland

‘Lost Art’ is the official German database for the documentation of cultural objects seized during the Nazi dictatorship. It contains cultural objects that were displaced or confiscated as a result of organised looting efforts by the Nazis, especially from Jewish owners.

Anlaufstelle Raubkunst, Federal Office of Culture

A governmental online portal about artworks plundered by the NS regime. Contains general information as well as information about provenance research.

With the browser extension «Lean Library» you can find the full text of the scientific literature available at the BFH. The following browsers are recommended: Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera or Edge. For Internet Explorer «Lean Library» is only available in a limited version.
Installation Lean Library: Find scientific literature more easily and faster

Borrowing

Loan periods

The standard loan periods are 28 days for books, 14 days for other media (e.g. DVDs) and 3 days for circulating journals.

Unless the borrowed media are requested by another user, the initial loan period is automatically renewed twice.

Library account

In your library account, you can view your loans and reservations, manually renew your loans and update your address details.
You need your ID number and password to log into your library account.
Please check your loan status regularly in your user account. Reminders are sent as an additional service. We do not accept any liability for non-receipt (e.g. due to spam filters). Please see the NEBIS FAQ for details.

Fees

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