COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES FOR

FASHION & TEXTILES

Edith Serkownek, June F. Mohler Fashion Library, Kent State University

Approaches to the Study of Fashion

and Textiles

Scientific

Historic

Art & Design

Business

Technological

Anthropological

LOC Classification: GT: Manners and Customs

GT495-499 Human body and its parts. Personal beauty

GT500-2370 Costume. Dress. Fashion HD: Industry. Land use. Labor

HD9720-9975 Manufacturing industries HD9940 Fashion Industry

HF: Commerce HF5465 History of specific department stores HF5429 Retail Trade HF5801-6182 Advertising HF5845 Retail display

NK: Decorative Arts NK4700-4890 Costume NK8800-9505.5 Textiles

PN: Literature (General) PN2067 Theatrical costume and costume

design TR: Photography

TR679 Fashion photography TS: Manufacturers

TS1300-1865 Textile industries TT: Handicrafts. Arts and crafts

TT490-695 Clothing manufacture. Dressmaking. Tailoring

TT697-927 Home arts. Homecrafts including sewing, embroidery, decorative crafts

LOC classification numbers for fashion, merchandising and textiles. . .

Collection Development Policies:

Goals Areas of Curricular

Concentration Degrees/Programs

Offered

Scope of Coverage

Parameters

Material Types

Who’s publishing?

Publishers to explore:

AVA Academia

Berg Publishers 

Fairchild Books

Laurence King Publishing

Yale University Press

  

What are people saying?

Book reviews:

Booklist

Choice

Costume

Fashion Practice

Fashion Theory

Reference and User Services Quarterly

Constituents 

What are other people collecting?

BobCat  A union catalog which includes

NYU and the New School

StyleCat Catalog for FIT

University of the Arts London A union catalog which includes

Central Saint Martins and the London College of Fashion

Other institutions with similar budgets and user-groups or in the same region

What's on your reference shelf?

Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and

Fashion

Fairchild Dictionary of Fashion

Dictionary of Textiles

Dictionary of Retailing

Encyclopedia of Menswear

Who’s Who in Fashion

What's on your reference shelf?

Greenwood   

Encyclopedia of Clothing Through American History

 

Encyclopedia of Clothing Through World Histor

y

Thames & Hudson The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Fashion a

nd Fashion Designers

 

Any of the Complete Sourcebook publications

illustrated by John Peacock

Others Scribner Library of Daily Life: Encyclopedia of

Clothing and Fashion

Contemporary Fashion, St. James Press

What databases do you subscribe to?

Research Databases:

Art Full Text 

ARTstor 

Berg Library Business Source

Complete 

Mintel  LexisNexis 

Periodicals for Fashion &

Textiles

Forecasting/Trending

Publications

Trade/Professional Publications

Popular Magazines

Scholarly Journals

What free information is out there?

Websites: Cotton Incorporated

Complete Textile Glossary

FabricLink

Source4Style

Style.com

Pathfinders: Rhode Island School of Design Re

search Guides Fashion Institute of Technology Re

search Guides Kent State Fashion Library Online

Guides

What free information is out there?

Visual Resources: Flickr and Flickr "Commons”

LIFE Photo Archive Hosted by Google

Victoria and Albert Museum, Fashion,

Jewellry and Accessories

Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) based at the University College for the Creative Arts

Other: Fiber: Online Journal of the In

ternational Fashion and Apparel Industry

Internet for Fashion and Beauty Tutorial, JISC

Other types of resources?

Special Collections Rare/historic books & pamphlets

Art books

Original designer sketchbooks & swatchbooks

Company records

Materials Resources Sample fabrics and/or garments

Press release kits/promotion

Sample student projects/online database

Putting it all together: Your Fashion & Textile Collection

Books & Reference Materials

Periodicals: Popular, Trade &

Scholarly

Databases & Electronic Resources

Free Resources,

Special Collections &

Fabric/Materials

Forecasting & Trending Resources

Comments or Questions?Edith Serkownek, Kent State University

eserkown@kent.edu