HIST 6051 Empires and Their Successors: Habsburg, Ottoman, Russian (Spring 2009)  Tags: eastern_europe central_european history  

subject words = less hits & better 

keywords = more hits & sometimes worse

A keyword is "find the word anywhere"--title, author, notes, description, publisher, etc.

Use the Library Catalog's guided keyword search

For instance--

Type in search box 2 and 3:
words/synonyms associated with your topic
when appropriate, set the middle pull down menu to "any of these"

The Cornell Library Catalog

• Includes the holdings of 19 Cornell University libraries (over 7 million items)
• Contains records for books, DVD's/videos, sound recordings, magazines/newspapers/journals, computer files, government documents, manuscripts and archives, maps, musical scores, and more

For BOOKS already checked out, or that we don't have:

Click on the link above, connect to Borrow Direct, search for the book and if it's available from another Ivy League university, we will have it shipped to Cornell. Borrowing period is one month. Books arrive in 3-4 business days. (This service is for BOOKS only).

For items (books, articles, microfilm) we don't have:

Interlibrary Loan Services

If Cornell Library does not have an item you need, Use ILLiad (InterLibrary Loan Internet Accessible Database) to request that we borrow materials from other libraries. Loan period is usually one month. Items can arrive in as little as a few days to a couple of weeks.

For items at another campus library or the Library Annex, use the "Request" button inside the Library Catalog and choose Library to Library Delivery.