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ENGL 357 Bernhard: Books

Why use books for research?

Books containing scholarly work provide:

  • Well established ideas about a topic
  • Contents that are often written by experts
  • Background information
  • Overview of big issues
  • Bibliographies, or list of sources that you find and use.
  • Use books quickly by browsing through the table of contents or by using the index to find precisely what you need.

Review: Search the catalog and limit to books

1. Search Virigina Woolf.

2. Add biography.

3. Ebooks and print boooks (Call Number Locator)

4. InterLibrary Loan

5. Cite and share (permalink)

6. Try Virginia Woolf and criticism

7. Try Virginia Woolf AND criticism AND Dalloway

Call Number Locator

Call Number Locator

The call number of a library item is like its home address.

Copy and paste any call number you find in WorldCat Discovery to see where it lives in the library.