EDU 2341: Instruction, Assessment and Classroom Management EC-12: Finding Books

To find books, you need to use the Library catalog. The Library Catalog can be used to locate books by title, author, and subject.  It contains records for books in the West Library, electronic books (eBooks), and multimedia resources (DVD, CD, other audio recordings)

Where is the Library Catalog?

On the main library page, select Books & More, then enter a search term in the search box.

Searching the Library Catalog

Once you have clicked on the Books & more tab, you can type in your topic in the search box, as is shown below.

Then you click on the Search Button to the right of the search box.

The search results page then displays. Here is a part of the results list below.

The book that I will choose will be number 16, Lesson plans for teaching writing.  Go to the next box to find out what to do next.

Once you have found a book on the results list that you wish to find, you need to do the following.

1. If the book is in the library, it will show up in the list like the example above.
2. The example above contains the Call Number, which is the number that you need to have to find this book.
3. The example above also tells you the location of the book.   It is on the 3rd Floor

How Books are arranged on the shelves

The books on the 3rd floor are arranged in a specific manner.  Our Library uses the Library of Congress Classification system, which assigns a letter or letters to specific subjects, as you can see in the example below.