Finding Books and More

Find nearly everything owned by the Cornell University Library by searching our library catalog. This includes books, journals, magazines, newspapers, videotapes, audiotapes, music CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, manuscripts, microfilm, microfiche--in short, anything the Library owns.

This online catalog also allows you to recall or put a hold on items that are currently checked out by other library users. Clicking on the Request button allows you to access our delivery services--library to library, Borrow Direct, and Interlibrary Loan.

 

Example of a print book you might find using the catalog:

Zipes, Jack.
The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012.
Olin Library Stacks GR 550 .Z59 2012

Example of an online book (eBook) you might find using this catalog:

Tatar, Maria, ed.
Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales.
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
DOI: 10.1017/CCO9781139381062

 

Two things to remember about our Catalog:
1. This online catalog lists the holdings of all Cornell libraries.
2. You cannot find journal articles in this catalog. Find the titles of journals, magazines, and newspapers and our holdings: the years and volumes we have and whether available online, in print, or both.

 

Additional resource for navigating the library catalog: Understanding Library of Congress Call Numbers

 

What if we don't own it?

If we don't have a book that you need or if we have the book but it is checked out:

Borrow Direct
Click on the link above, connect to Borrow Direct, search for the book and if it's available from another BorrowDirect partner library, we will have it shipped to Cornell. Borrowing period is one month. Books usually arrive in 3 or 4 days. (This service is for books only).

If we don't own an item that you need (any item--journal article, DVD, dissertation, etc.):

Interlibrary Loan Service
If Cornell Library does not have an item you need, especially journal articles, use our interlibrary loan service to request a free scanned copy of the article you want. Directions for accessing these scans, usually PDFs, will arrive in your email in just a few days.

We invite you to check with the reference staff if you are having trouble finding a particular book or journal. We can help!