New Online Catalog Launched to Start Fall Semester
Aug 18, 2008
Two major improvements to Miller Library's Online Catalog were launched this week. 1) WebPac Pro is the latest and best of searching tools; 2) Puritan Seminary (across Leonard St) now has their holdings in our catalog, making it possible to search and borrow …
Library Gets New Reference Computers
Aug 8, 2008
At long last, our old public use computers have been replaced with great new PCs. Thanks much to our Info Systems staff for upgrading these machines to something much faster and more functional! Remember, you can login to these PCs using your Cornerstone …
How to Find Books Using Miller Library's catalog and then Borrow them using WorldCat
Although Miller Library cannot ship books outside the US, you can still use its online catalog to find the titles you want and then, in many cases, use that information to borrow them in your own country.
Two other reasons for using Miller Library's online catalog are: 1. it will directly link you to about 25,000 ebooks that are quickly downloaded (free for CU/ABTS students); and 2. it links directly to several thousand journals that provide full-text articles (also available using the "Journals @ Miller Library").
Here's how to use the catalog to find books that may be borrowable in your country.
1. Search the Miller Library catalog either by known author/title, or by subject or keywords if you don't know of a specific book.
2. Once you find the books that interest you copy down the title and author. You may also want to see what "Subject" headings are used (click on the book's title and scroll down the page to see the Subjects.)
3. Go to FirstSearch (one of the databases available to you; you will be asked to enter your name and student ID number). Once in FirstSearch, select "WorldCat". Here you can search by the author/titles you just copied, or you can do a "Subject" search using the subject headings you just discovered.
4. When you click on the search button, you should find records for the books you are looking for. If you click on "Libraries that own this item" you will find a list of mostly American libraries. But you can also limit your search to libraries in your own country. Note the "Limit to" feature at the bottom of the search page. Here you can enter a specific Library Code, such as SINUS, which stand for the National University of Singapore. (You find this code information by clicking on the "Find codes" tab.) There are libraries throughout SE Asia that will either lend you their books or let you use them in-house.
5. The other option, of course, is to use the book information to purchase the book either from the publisher or an online bookseller such as Amazon.com
