Interior Design: Getting Started

Fairchild Books Interior Design Library offers all-in-one digital access to just under 70 acclaimed textbooks and dedicated supplementary resources from Fairchild Books, to support course delivery and learning across the entire interior design curriculum.

Covers fine, decorative and commercial art, and various areas of architecture and architectural design. Features full-text articles as well as detailed indexing and abstracts for journals, books, and podcasts.

Access to 3 integrated databases of authoritative information on sustainable building. All content from Environmental Building News, the directory of building green products listed in GreenSpec®, and 200+ case studies of high performance buildings

Comprehensive content collection includes material properties, process and design information, best practices, equations and formulations for specific industries and engineering disciplines.

Information on over 7,000 of today's most innovative materials.
Note: Clicking the "Sign up" button allows you to create an account, but that is not required to access the database. Creating an account lets you save materials to a personal board in the Workspace section of the site, and then share that board with others, export it, etc.

Indexes art, architecture, and urban planning articles.

Articles on all aspects of human impact to the environment, includes government documents and reports. Full-text content.

Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 18000 sources on over 60000 topics.

AVON delivers 68,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counselling, film, health, history, music, and more. It includes a variety of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, and demonstrations. Patrons will also find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners.
Permissions include - in-class showings; making clips, linking and embedding in the Learning Hub. Social showings can also be provided for student groups as long as no admission is charged.

Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform for public libraries and universities that offers viewers a large collection of award-winning films and documentaries.
Permissions include - in-class showings; making clips, linking and embedding in the Learning Hub. Social showings can also be provided for student groups as long as no admission is charged.

This is a freely accessible search engine that lets users look for both physical and digital copies of articles. FIND full-text@BCIT indicates articles available via BCIT databases.

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Following in the tradition of Lynda.com LinkedIn Learning is an online learning platform that features instructive videos on a wide variety of subjects, including business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals.

Privacy protection information:
When you login to LinkedIn Learning you will be presented with an option to link your existing LinkedIn account (if you have one) to your new LinkedIn Learning account. This is not required, and is in fact not recommended by the Library because of privacy issues.
If you decide to link your LinkedIn account please be aware that your first name, last name and email address will be sent to LinkedIn Learning servers in the United States.
If in doubt, please do not link your LinkedIn account to your new LinkedIn Learning account - you can always do that later.