Choosing Search Terms
Five College Catalog
Getting Started
If you know the title or author of the book you want, use the Quick Search box. For a more complicated search, choose the Books (library catalog) option, and then choose the Advanced tab. Use the dropdown boxes to focus your search terms, and the Limits to restrict your search to a range of dates, type of media, or even library location.
Next steps
When you have found a book that seems useful, look at the Subject(s) entries; if you see one that looks good, click that to get other titles that have been given that subject heading.
You can get a book from the other Four Colleges by clicking on the Request Item button at the top of the book's record.
You can also search WorldCat, a database of library catalogs from all over the world. If you find a book that is held by a library anywhere in the US, you can borrow it through Interlibrary Loan.
"Research is formalized curiosity."
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
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