Research Tools and Techniques: Find Books & E-books

Use the Lee College Library catalog to find books and e-books.

To search for books about a specific subject:

• Type your subject into the search field and click the "Go" button.

Try stringing together several search terms to narrow your search.

Examples:

• [To look up the health benefits of yoga:]  yoga AND health
• [To find how people with disabilities can participate in sports:] sport AND disability

To find a specific item in the library:

• Pull down the menu to the left of the search box and choose "Title" or "Author."  Then enter the title or author of your item.

Searching for a phrase?

Putting it in quotation marks tells the search that you want that exact phrase, not just any of the words contained within it.

Ex: "civil society"  "Immanuel Kant" "evolutionary ethics"

Want to search for all forms of a word simultaneously?

Use the * as a wild card.  Example:

• Philosoph* will include Philosophy, Philosopher, Philosophers, and Philosophical in your search all at once.