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Research Guides

Here is a selection of guides to resources for landscape architecture. For additional research guides see Environmental Design Library Guides.

Information Sources for Landscape Architecture
University of Florida, Libraries
Subject Guides: Landscape Architecture
Leeds Metropolitan Univ. For the academic researcher, an online bibliography of print sources and Web links, organized by broad topic.

Beatrix Farrand Collections
An outstanding landscape architecture resource at UC Berkeley is the collections donated by Beatrix Jones Farrand, America's first woman registered landscape architect. From Farrand's Reef Point Gardens Library. A partial list of these titles may be viewed in OskiCat, the Library's catalog: select the Advanced Keyword Search → Select field: NOTES → Enter "reef point" or "Beatrix Farrand." Some items are noncirculating and may not be photocopied.

Environmental Design Archives
The work of most of the San Francisco Bay Region's historically significant architects and landscape architects are represented in the collections of more than 150 architects and firms, including Gertrude Jekyll, Beatrix Farrand, Thomas Church,and Garrett Eckbo. These collections contain drawings, plans, specifications, photographs, audio-tapes, personal papers, business records, furniture, art, and artifacts. Access is by appointment only.

Finding Aids - Environmental Design Archives
From the Environmental Design Archives
UC Berkeley Herbarium
Plant specimens from Farrand's Reef Point Herbarium.
Visual Resources Center
A collection of 225,000 35mm slides of architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture, art and design, and related fields for use by the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design faculty and graduate students.

The Web can be a great source of landscape images. See also Image sources for the built environment for links to visual libraries on the Web.

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
Millions of digital items from more than 100 historical Library of Congress collections.

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