What to do if it's not available
If the catalog record indicates that the material is "charged," it means that someone else has signed out the book. When you click on "request," the system figures out the fastest way to get it to you. If it's a recall, that takes about two weeks. Interlibrary Loan (ILL) /Borrow Direct is faster, so it will direct you there:
If we do not have a book in our holdings, or if the book you need is already checked out:
Click on the link to connect to ILL/Borrow Direct, search for the book and if it's available elsewhere. Borrow Direct means it will come from another Ivy League university (plus: Johns Hopkins, MIT, Duke, University of Chicago, & Stanford), we will have it shipped to Cornell at no extra cost to you. The borrowing period is for eight weeks, renewable once. Books arrive in 3-4 business days.
ILLiad (InterLibrary Loan Internet Accessible Database) will allow you to request that we borrow materials from other libraries or have articles scanned for you. Loan period is usually one month. Items can arrive in as little as a few days (or even the next day, in the case of scans) to a couple of weeks (This service will not work for items that Cornell already owns, but are checked out by other borrowers).
Library Stack
LibraryStack is a database; "a living collection of independent ebooks, audio files, videos and digital documents being published within the fields of contemporary art, design, media studies, cinema, architecture and philosophy."
Art & Architecture ePortal
The Art & Architecture ePortal is a collection of key scholarly works in the fields of art and architectural history published by: The Art Institute of Chicago, The MIT Press, Yale University Press, Harvard Art Museums, and the Yale University Art Gallery.
The portal allows browsing of all images (by artist, title, or date) across ebooks.
Free eBooks
Free eBooks from Guggenheim Museum (via Internet Archive)
Five decades of Metropolitan Museum publications, downloadable, for free.
National Gallery of Art Online Editions
Getty Publications Virtual Library: Free digital backlist titles from the Getty Publications Archive.
Canadian Online Art Book Project (original works commissioned by the Art Canada Institute)