The Library

🔓 = Access on campus or by FEIDE login. (Your KHiO username and password).

Aria database

The Aria Database is a collection of information about opera and operatic arias. Besides providing basic information about each aria, the Database includes translations for many arias and aria texts for those that are not affected by copyright restrictions. The Database also provides access to a collection of operatic sound files to give visitors an idea of what each aria sounds like. The Aria Database also contains information on available scores and sound files that can be purchased to aid in study and enjoyment. Currently, the Database holds information on the complete operatic aria collections of Mozart, Verdi, Berlioz, Wagner, and Puccini as well as the partial collections of over 50 other composers.

Art & Architecture Complete 🔓

Journals, e-books and pictures about art, design and architecture.

Artnet

Artnet is the leading online resource for the international art market, and the destination to buy, sell, and research art online. Founded in 1989 with the goal of bringing transparency to the art world, artnet’s comprehensive suite of products offers a variety of art market resources to our audience of collectors, dealers, and art enthusiasts.

ARTstor🔓

1.9 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences

Atekst 🔓

Norwegian fulltext newspaper and magazine articles.

Colombine

Nordic theatre publisher

CRIStin

Research and artistic development at Norwegian universities, colleges and institutes.

Digitalt Museum

Norwegian museum collections: art, arts and crafts, cultural history and much more.

Diktregister

Database of Norwegian poetry.

Doollee.com

Modern dramatists and plays written in or translated to English. From 1956-.

Dramas

Norwegian Theatre Council database of plays.

Encyclopaedia Britannica🔓

Campus access only

Europeana

Explore 48,633,358 artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe

Google Arts & Culture

Access to high-resolution images of artwork in a number of museums around the world. You can also move around in the museums with Google Street View Technology. It can be defined in the categories Artists, Mediums, Art movements, Historical events, Historical figures, and Places.

Google Scholar

Web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library

Classical sheet music

Internet Movie DataBase

The worlds largest movie database

International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text🔓

Fulltext journal articles and e-books

IPA Source🔓

Transcriptions and translations of arias and songs.

KHIODA🔓

Oslo National Academy of the Arts Digital Archive

KunstBib

Norwegian bibliography of art history.

Manusbanken🔓

Contemporary Norwegian Plays

Materia

Material database with descriptions of 2600+ materials for architects and designers, within the following categories: Ceramics, Coatings, Concretes, Glass, Metals, Natural stones, Other naturals, Plastics, Wood.

Medici.tv🔓

Leading channel for classical music

The Norwegian National Theatre Archive (productions and scripts)

The Norwegian National Theatre script archive

Nordiska Strakosch

Nordic publishing house for drama.

NYPL Digital Collections

The New York Public Library has scanned more than 840,000 images in high resolution. The database is updated daily and includes prints, photographs, maps, posters, menus, illustrations, catalogues etc.

Operabase

Operabase has documented operatic activity worldwide since 1996, with over 410,000 performances on file. It records the work of artists in over 900 theatres, and publishes season information to opera-goers in 23 languages.

Ordnett🔓

Dictionaries: Norwegian, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Swedish.

Sang- og viseregister

Database of Norwegian songs.

Skuespillerkatalogen🔓

Catalogue of Norwegian actors and actresses.

For username and password, ask our librarian.

Stylepark

Database of materials for architects and artists.

UbuWeb

Educational resource for avant-garde material available on the internet. It offers visual, concrete and sound poetry, expanding to include film and sound art mp3 archives.

Web Gallery of Art

European art from 1100-1850. (Over 22600 works.)

Feel free to ask your librarian for help!

Who can borrow? 

Lending rules 

The borrower is personally responsible for all loans.

• 30 days for books and sheet music.
• 7 days for DVDs, CDs, theatre manuscripts, curriculum literature and journals.

Encyclopedias and bound journals are not for loan.

You can easily renew your loans by logging in to Oria , by phone or email or by visiting the circulation desk. Loans can usually be renewed as long as the items are not requested by other patrons. The library sends overdue reminders by e-mail/SMS.

If the items are not returned or renewed after the second overdue reminder you will receive a compensation claim of NOK 750,- minimum per item. You will not be allowed to borrow anything else until the claim is sorted out.

Items borrowed from other libraries are processed according to the other library's lending policy.

Loss of a student ID-card must be reported to the library. The library must be notified of any name and address changes

If these regulations are not followed your borrowing priveliges may be revoked.

ISBN and ISSN

The library administers the institutional ISBN range (International Standard Book Number) and takes care of the legal depositing of all materials produced with the National Library in Mo i Rana. For more information about ISBN and ISSN (International Standard Serial Number), please see this page.

Coursepacks

The Kopinor Higher education licence requires all coursepacks consisting of two or more book excerpts to be registered for clearance in Bolk. With the Bolk service, you can search, compile and order digital and/or printed coursepacks through one single solution. Bolk secures overview and budget control. With digital delivery, you avoid extra costs for unsold copies.

The Library can help you with literature searches if you are stuck. For other necessary course information, please contact the student administration! Clearing the rights and/or producing the coursepacks may take up to 3 weeks, so start producing them as soon as possible. For more information, please see this page.

Artistic Research and Publishing

• CRIStin - The Norwegian Research Information System
• KHIODA - Our own institutional repository (digital archive - fulltext, images, sound and film)
• Nora - search Norwegian institutional repositories (open access, fulltext)
• EndNote and Zotero - reference management systems
• Scientific journals, series and publishers

If you have any questions regarding what to register, please contact the library: khioda@khio.no

Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers

NSD is responsible for the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers. This forms the basis for research publications that have an impact on the weighted funding model. Here you can search for authorised publication channels, also within the design and arts fields: Search the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers.

Reading difficulties

Anyone with reading difficulties due to illness or disability can use the services of The Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille (NLB).

Our various training programs aim to develop students’ information literacy skills.

Our goal is that our students should be able to:

• Master general and specific search techniques in information sources relevant to their studies.
• Be critically selective in their choice of information sources.
• Stay updated within their subject area.
• Know how to use and cite sources in an academic work.

Video: How to find a specific book in the KHiO Library

Video: How to sign in to Oria and renew your loans

• Citation, referencing and copyright
• EndNote

Video: EndNote - import references from Oria and insert citation into Word

• Map of the library

Our collections

The KHiO Library's collecions cover fine art, crafts, design and performing arts. The collections count approx. 70 000 books, as well as a large collection of films and a number of special collections, including a large collection of Artists' Books. The library also offers access to several digital resources within the subject areas.

In addition, the library subscribes to national and international newspapers. 

Hvordan finne frem på biblioteket

• Kart over biblioteket
• Hyllesignatur "Ref.": Dette materialet er oppstilt innerst i biblioteket. "Ref." står for "Referansesamling". Dette er materiale som må brukes på stedet. Ikke til hjemlån.
• Hyllesignatur "Nærmag." eller "Mag.": Denne litteraturen må du be bibliotekaren om å finne frem for deg da den er oppstilt i magasin.
• Bibliotekets aller eldste litteratur er pr i dag ikke registrert i vår digitale katalog. Denne må du søke opp i kortkatalogen som du finner vis à vis skranken. Dette materialet står i vårt fjernmagasin, oppstilt etter løpenummer (dvs. etter når det ble kjøpt inn). Her skjuler det seg mye spennende gammelt boklig materiale, - så denne katalogen er absolutt verdt å utforske! 
• Samlingene er stilt opp etter Deweys desimalklassifikasjon. De ti hovedklassene innen Dewey .