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Help Finding and Using Materials

Use these tools to find more information on the books, magazines, journals, films, and other physical materials in the DI Library as well as access online articles, journals, ebooks, databases, news sources, and more.

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Find books, ebooks, magazines, journals, films, and other materials held by the DI Library
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Use the catalog to search course reserves by course number, course name, or the name of your professor.
Access All Online Resources through the LIRN Library Portal
Click this link and use your Microsoft365 login (DI email address and password) to get to the LIRN Library portal. This will automatically log you into all of the online library resources.

Top Online Resources:

Fairchild Books Interior Design Library This link opens in a new window
Over 65 interior design textbooks, including some required for DI courses
Ebook Central: Academic Complete This link opens in a new window
Over 150,000 scholarly ebooks on a wide variety of academic subjects
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Full text, abstracts, and citations from thousands of scholarly journals, trade and professional titles, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, case studies, and market reports in all subject areas.