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Effective Searching in LOUIS Catalog

• Use Basic Search to locate known items by title or author
  
  
• Use Advanced Search to discover potentially useful material, combining keywords or subject terms - learn how (PDF)
  
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• Browse the virtual shelves in Politics - Library of Congress PDF file

Locating Books in the Library

If It's Not at the Library

• Book checked out by someone else? Ask for a recall
  
  
• In a hurry? Get a BLC card and borrow the book from a nearby academic library - use WorldCat to find which libraries own it
  
  
• Have a little more time? Request the book from another library through InterLibrary Loan (ILL)

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This page was last modified on: Apr 11, 2007