Finding Books at Drury  Tags: books research  

Book catalogs typically provide for seaching by author name, the title of the book, the subject heading assigned to the book, or keyword.

• Author. Normally you enter the last name first.
• Title. Type in as much of the title as you know in correct sequence. Do not include the articles the, a, or an.
• Subject Heading. This is normally the most precise way to look for books by subject, but requires you to find out what the "official" subject term is. Any time you identify a book in the catalog that is on your topic, check the subject headings in the record to find out terms that may be of benefit. The subject headings in the record will be live links that you can search on.
• Keyword. This search strategy will ask the computer to find your term anywhere in a record--author, title, subject heading, notes, etc. It can be very handy for identifying a list of books whose subject headings you can then review. It can also help find narrower information contained in individual chapters.

The following links will take you to the Drury University catalog, the SWAN catalog, the MOBIUS catalog, and the WorldCat catalog.  These are the four major sources for identifying published book literature on any subject.