MATH 3520: Teaching Elementary School Mathematics: Books
Finding Books on Your Topic
Finding Books in Other Libraries
Use the WorldCat databse to identify books on your topic. WorldCat included books at WMU as well as other libraries throughout the country. Use the interlibrary loan system to request delivery of books to your address.
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Comprehensive catalog of books and other materials in libraries around the world. Contains millions of records in hundreds of languages. Items located through WorldCat must be requested through Interlibrary Loan unless they are also listed in the WMU libraries catalog. (Library Search)
Nonbook materials include (among other publication formats) journals and magazines, manuscripts, maps, electronic resources, websites, computer programs, musical scores, films, slides, sound recordings, conference proceedings, and videotapes and discs.
Use Library Search to Find Books
Tips for searching for books using the Advanced Search feature in Library Search (the search box on WMU Libraries' home page)
- To search for a book whose title you know: Select Title from the drop-down menu, then type the title in the search box, then click Search
- To search for books by a specific author: Select Author rom the drop-down menu, then click Search
- To search for books by topic: Type your keyword(s) into the search box(es), then click Search
- When searching for a phrase: Put quotation marks around the phrase (example: "voter turnout")
- To find variants of a word: Use an asterisk * to pick up variant endings of a word (for example, politi* will retrieve politics, political, politician, politicization, etc.)
Remember: To limit your search results to books, before your search select Books as the material type for the search will retrieve, or after your search, limit the results to Books.
