ARCH ARCH 3308/4509/6308/6509: Building a Sovereign Community (Fall 2024)

Start your search:

1. From the library homepage, enter some key words and select "catalog" from the drop-down menu.
2. From the list of results in the catalog, you can use the filters on the left to narrow your search.
3. Or, select the Advanced Search.
4. Combine keywords and phrases.
5. Add alternate terms to broaden your search, and select the pulldown menu to select "any." 
   e.g. women gender [any]

Expand or filter your search:

1. Open catalog records to view summaries, table-of-contents, and subject heading links
2. Follow subject-heading links.
3. Or, add subject headings to your search and use the pull-down menu to select "Subject Browse"

Searching by country or city or region often works well.

Material such as books described with the subject Jamaica means that the book is focused on Jamaica in contrast to Jamaica as keyword which could mean the item is more tangentially about Jamaica.

Jamaica as keyword  = 6000+ results

compared to

Jamaica as subject = 3000+ results

Add another term or two to either of these results to get less and more narrowly focused results.

The Map Collection in Olin Library contains over 200,000 paper maps, and 1,000 books and atlases. The collections and services are available to all students, faculty, and staff of Cornell University and also to visitors from outside the University.

Map Staff are available to answer your questions, help you identify pertinent materials, and assist you in accessing the physical & digital collections. Staff can help you to locate maps for your research or for classroom presentations.

E-mail reference service is provided to the Cornell community as well as non-Cornell patrons. Please contact olinmaps@cornell.edu with any questions you may have or to schedule an appointment in the map room.