The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Jessica R. Gund Memorial Library has collections specifically developed for the students, faculty, and staff of CIA. It supports the Institute’s mission of nurturing students’ intellectual, artistic, and professional development by providing highly specialized collections for studio-intensive instruction and liberal arts courses, connecting students with images and information beyond the Gund Library, and teaching students how to identify, find, and evaluate resources. The library contains print and ebooks, has access to thousands of periodicals, and provides access to a wide array of multimedia resources. It also includes a graphic novel collection, a pop-up book collection, a board game collection, the Institute’s archives, and an extensive collection of artists’ books.
The Gund Library's nationally recognized collection of artists' books contains books from the 1960s to the present, is international in scope, and reflects the history of this dynamic art form since the genre’s emergence in the second half of the 20th century.
Gund Library is a member of OhioLINK, a statewide consortium of more than 100 academic libraries, owning millions of items. Through OhioLINK, CIA students and employees may borrow materials from any member library and have access to over hundreds of multi-subject digital databases, many of which provide full text access, and a huge number of e-books and other media.
To learn more about our collections, please choose from the menu on the left side of this page.
