Use the Library Search - ADVANCED SEARCH feature to find books on your topic in the WMU collection.  You can find both primary documents and secondary sources through the catalog.  Just follow the suggestions in the search tips.

Find a book with a specific title

If you already know the title or author, use the pull-down arrow to select Title or Author.

Find books by topic

When looking for books by topic, enter your keyword(s) into the Library Search search boxes

• SEARCH TIP:  If you are using a phrase in your search, be sure and put it in quotation marks, e.g., "material culture"
• SEARCH TIP:  Use an asterisk  *  to pick up variant endings of a word, e.g., industr* will retrieve industry, industries, industrial, industrialization, etc.
• SEARCH TIP:  To find primary documents, use one of the boxes in the Advanced Search to include keywords such as: sources OR letters OR diaries OR "personal narratives" OR "oral history" OR correspondence OR speeches.
• SEARCH TIP:  Be sure and do an author search in our online catalog to see if the person/people that are prominent in the topic you are researching authored any materials.  Books written by people who participated in an event are considered primary documents.