HIST 433: Colonialism and the Jews: Searching For Books

Start in the library catalog

• Do a few keyword searches in the library catalog
• Once you find a relevant book, click on the Details link and look at the Subjects to find similar items
• When you click on a subject, it will run a new search on that topic

Browse the shelves
Books are organized on the shelves according to topic, so once you find a promising source, you can:

• use the Virtual Browse link in the library catalog to see other possibly relevant books around it
• or go to the shelves to browse physically

Bibliographic catalogs, as a print form, are lists of books. They are often published by museums and research universities and cover a  collection that is unique to their institution.

While catalogues will not contain everything ever published on your topic, they can be useful for discovering the field, and finding rare or historic items based around a set of subjects.