Arts and Communication

Search the Library Catalog for print books and government documents. Subjects are named in the Library Catalog using the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Locate print books on the fourth floor of the Evans Library using the call number indicated in the Library Catalog record.

To Search the Catalog:

1. Click the Catalog tab on the library's website and enter the word or words you want to find.
2. Choose a field from the drop-down menu. All FIelds looks in all indexed fields within a record.  All other choices (Title, Journal Title, Author, Subject, Call Number, ISBN/ISSN, Series) target specified fields within a record.
3. Click Find.

Additional search tips:

• Most words in the catalog’s records are indexed and therefore searchable.
• Boolean operators AND, +, OR, NOT, and - may be used to narrow or expand searches.
• Use truncation/wildcard symbols to replace any number of characters (*) or a single character (?).
• The most precise search is a Subject search using a term from the Library of Congress Subject Headings.
• Click on links (subjects, authors, and more) in the catalog record to continue searching.
• Search results may be cited, e-mailed, texted or exported into RefWorks.
• Click Advanced Search to limit results by call number (LCSH or SuDocs), publication year, language, and format.

How can I acquire books from the Evans Library Collection (not ebooks)?

Books not available electronically may be available to Distance Students in the United States via Document Delivery. Requests can be made using our  Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery service. 

At this time, we are not able to supply books from other libraries to Distance Students. Please utilize your nearest public library for this purpose; use WorldCat to find the closest library location for your book.