Resource Guide:
Ceramics

• Rijks Museum
• Smithsonian Open Access Ceramics Images
• CFile: Contemporary Ceramic Art and Design
• How to Make Pottery

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• The Field Guide for Ceramic Artisans
• The New York Public Library Digital Collections
• American Art Pottery by the Smithsonian
• Studio Potter
• Ceramics Now

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Ceramics
• Pottery craft
• Pottery & Ceramics
• ART / Ceramics
• Pottery
• Pottery -- 20th Century
• Ceramic bowls

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• JSTOR
• MasterFILE Premier
• National Gallery Collection

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• American Ceramic Society Bulletin
• Ceramics Monthly
• Ceramics Technical
• Journal of the American Ceramic Society
• Journal of Ceramics
• Pottery Making Illustrated

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.