Use the Libraries' ADVANCED SEARCH 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.
If you already know the title or author, use the pull-down arrow to select Title or Author.
When looking for books by topic, enter your keyword(s) into the search boxes.
SEARCH TIP: If you are using a phrase in your search, be sure and put it in quotation marks, e.g., "ante bellum"
SEARCH TIP: Use an asterisk * to pick up variant endings of a word, e.g., wom* will retrieve women, women's, woman, woman's, etc.
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.
The following are the best keywords to use when looking in the library catalog for primary documents in our collection:
Use MeLCat and WorldCat to identify pertinent resources "out there" that are not owned by the WMU Libraries. You can request items directly through MeLCat and through Interlibrary Loan from WorldCat. We will borrow the book(s) from another library and the service is FREE to you.
