Books will show up in the results of a basic search, but you can improve your search results when looking specifically for book information by following a couple of simple steps.
Begin by using the Library Catalog search index. This limits your results to ebooks and items in the library's catalog. This means you will also see results for other physical materials like DVDs.
Use the Facets menu (Tweak Your Results) to further adjust your options.
Selecting "Held by Library" will limit your results to those items items explicitly in the library catalog, mostly physical items.
If you'd prefer ebooks, select "Available Online".
Also consider opening the "Subject" facet to see what subject headings are attached to your results. While you can use this to further limit your results, there's another, more important, reason for doing this. It can help you identify additional terms you may need to search. For example, in our search for books about bipolar disorder, if we look at the Subject list we see that there are multiple headings for Manic Depressive Illness, an alternate term for the disorder. It would be worthwhile doing a separate search using this term because you may find other useful sources.
Once you find a book of interest in the library's physical collection, place a request to have it retrieved.
And finally, don't forget that you can broaden your search to books in other libraries by switching to the the I-Share search index. You can then request items from these libraries.
Reference Resources
Another type of book result that you can consider are reference resources. Reference entries are from encyclopedias, almanacs and dictionaries. Increasingly, the library provides these types of materials in an online format. Primo 1Search lets you search specifically for this type of entry.
Start with a basic (All Library Resources) search. Then select Source Type from the Facets (Tweak My Results) menu. Select Reference Entries.
