Library Catalog
Find Books using the catalog
- Catalog: use this link to find Books, government documents, reserve items, music, movies and journal titles (NOT JOURNAL ARTICLES) in our library
- Search the catalog using keywords to find materials
- Write out a few keywords on your topics and enter them into the search box.
- Don't write out a sentence. You will get zero results.
- For Example: I am writing a paper on "Gay men and lesbians should be premitted to marry."
- my FIRST search might be: gay marriage
- DON'T STOP here! Revise your searches and use the results to find other material
TIPS
- ALWAYS go back and revise your searches. Look at your terms and think about synonyms to use!!
- Start with broad searches!!
- Use the Subjects, etc... link in a catalog record to find more information on a specific subject area
- Click on the call numbers to "virtually browse" the library's shelves
Reference Books
Opposing Viewpoints H31 .O62
Current Controversies H31 .C97
Databases
Newspapers
Proquest Newspapers
America's Newspapers
Expanded Academic ASAP