Identifying Books in the Catalog


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Section Contents

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  1. When to Use a Book
  2. Identifying Books
Keyword Search
  3. Locating a Book
  4. Using Citation Styles
  5. Finding Books Activity

Identifying Books in the Catalog

To find books, videos and other materials in the campus libraries, search the Library Catalog.

You have several options for searching: Author, Title, Journal Title, Subject (1), Keyword (2) Online or other.

library catalog menu

Subject Search

Try a Subject Search first. If you have a phrase or a specific term which is within the controlled vocabulary, a subject search is usually more focused than a keyword approach.

If you type "terrorism" for a search term...

subject search - terrorism

...you will retrieve over 1900 (1) entries. To reduce the number of results, choose a subvision (2) or limit (3) by years or other terms.

subject search results