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This Section will help you understand how to search for these items using a library catalogue.

Swan & Mobius
Books
Article in a book
Journal articles
A paper from a conference or seminar

Link to the SWAN Library Catalog

Swan & Mobius

SWAN, the Southwest Academic Network, is a consortiumof nine libraries in southwestern Missouri that share a common library system and maintain a special relationship in sharing resources. Its members are Drury University, Southwest Missouri State University, Ozarks Technical Community College, Southwest Baptist University, Missouri Southern State College, Crowder College, Baptist Bible College and the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary. After searching the Drury catalog, you can re-execute the same search in the SWAN shared catalog. The SWAN software enables you to enter an electronic request for a book you find in the SWAN catalog and the book will be delivered to Drury by courier in a few days. You can also renew the book online for a second 3-week checkout period

SWAN libraries also give each other special preference in borrowing and lending journal articles through interlibrary loan. The courier system assures quick delivery of such materials.

SWAN is part of a broader consortium of academic libraries within Missouri called MOBIUS. You can execute a search in the MOBIUS catalog as well, with the same borrowing privileges as within SWAN.

Books

When you know the name of the author (or editor) and the title of a book, you can search a library catalogue using either of these.
Here is an example of a book reference:

Scarisbrick, D. 1995, Tudor and Jacobean Jewellery, Tate Publishing, London.

To see if this book is in the library, you can search the catalogue by choosing an Author search and entering:

Scarisbrick
(It's an unusual name, so you'll probably find the book right away. If the author was Smith J, a different search would be best ).

You can also choose a Title search, entering:

tudor and jacobean jewelry

Some library cataloges allow you to do a Keyword or Word search where you can enter the author's family name and/or some words from the title, for example:

scarisbrick tudor jacobean

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Article in a book

Here is an example of a reference to an article or chapter in a book:

Ruddell, A. 1998, 'The physical properties of snow', in K. Green (ed), Snow: a natural history; an uncertain future, Australian Alps Liaison Committee, Canberra, pp. 35-55.

The trick in searching for this in a library catalogue is to remember that the article is in a book. To see if the library has the book you can search by its author (or editor in this case), or by the title of the book.

You could enter:

Green (the editor) as an Author search (but there will be many with this name)

OR Snow a natural history (the title of the book) in a Title search

OR if you are using a Keywords search in the Drury catalog, you can enter
green snow history ( this is the quickest search)

Remember: you must search using the author, editors or title of the whole book as its chapters or articles are not listed in library catalogues.

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Journal articles

Here is an example of a journal article on a reading list:

Dolven, B. 2002, 'Keep on trucking', Far Eastern Economic Review, vol. 165, no. 28, p. 28.

To find a journal article, you need to see if the library has the journal it appears in. Library catalogues only list the journals the library holds, not the articles in them. There are simply too many journal articles for their details to be included in a library catalogue.

To find the example above, you must search by the title of the journal, which appears just before the volume and issue number, typing:

Far Eastern Economic Review

The next important step is to check to see whether the library has the volume and issue of the journal that contains this article. In this case:

vol. 165, no. 28

Later in this Trek you will see how to do this in the Drury Library catalogue.

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A paper from a conference or seminar

This is an example of a reference to a paper presented at a conference:

Sogar, D.H. 1992, 'Marketing hospitality, travel and tourism management education', Paper presented at the 1992 Marketing Educators' Conference, 4-6 February, 1992, pp.87-98.

Just like book chapters and journal articles, conference papers are not listed in catalogues. You need to search by the name of the conference in an Author search. In this example it is:

Marketing Educators' Conference

If the name of the group or association who organised the conference also appears in the reference, you can also search by this as an Author. Searching on several words from the conference as Keywords is often more effective.

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