The Library catalog includes our books, ebooks, special collections, government documents, and many other materials. 

Basic Searching

Once you're in the catalog, you can combine terms in the basic Subject Search
Search by keyword, or limit to title, author or subject using the drop down menus. 

Search tips:

• Use quotation marks around phrases: "action research",  "elementary school"
• Combine synonyms or equivalent concepts on the same line joined with OR (all caps): "action research" OR teacher inquiry
• Looking for several works with the same stem? use the truncation symbol: teach* for teach, teacher, teaching
• The Drop-down menus next to the keywords boxes allow you to limit your search to author, title, etc.
• Use the pub year boxes to limit to items published within a certain time period.
• use the drop down menus to limit searches, such as limiting to language-- items in English--, or location-- such as books on the library shelves that you may check out, or online books

Entries in the catalog

• Display the title, author, publication information for the item
• Show if the book is checked out, and give you an opportunity to recall it.
• Show the part of the library or collection and the call number for the item *
  * if there are multiple copies in different collections, you may have to click on the title to see the list
• Link to the electronic version of an item, if there is one.
• Have a check box so you can select them to add to your kept list (be sure to choose "add selected items to kept list" and then print/email them before starting a new search

Advanced catalog search (part 1)

You can also use advanced search (link in the center of the search box) to find lists titles, author names, subject headings that   include, or begin with specific terms:

Searching for subject headings containing
action research

Click "Left to Right" to find exact titles, or narrow subject headings.

Each entry shows how many items are associated with it.

Clicking on the subject (or title, author, etc) will show all the items that match.

To see all the items that match a subject heading and all its narrower subject headings, click on the number after the /
In the case of "Action Research in Education" the 80.