HIST 8610 - Atlantic World History: Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century - Byrd: Finding Books in Library Catalog

There are thousands of library catalogs out there and only one of you.

It's time for every researcher's secret weapon:

WorldCat contains more than 125 million records describing items owned by U.S. libraries and libraries around the world.  

These items include books, manuscripts, musical scores, films, newspapers, etc.

Try a "SUBJECT begins with" search using one of the Library of Congress Subject Headings listed below:

Atlantic Ocean Region

Blacks Atlantic Ocean Region

Confraternities Mexico

Cuba Foreign relations United States

Haiti History 1804-1844

Haiti History Revolution 1791-1804

Hispaniola History

Maroons Panama (or Caribbean, West Indies, etc.)

Mexico History Spanish Colony 1540-1810

Philippines Commerce

Slave insurrections

Slave trade Caribbean

Slaves Emancipation Hispaniola

Slavery Hispaniola

Spain Colonies America

Spain History 711-1516

Spain History Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516

Spain History House of Austria, 1516-1700

Spain History Charles I, 1516-1556

Spain History Philip II, 1556-1598

Jesuits History Sources

Law Spain Colonies

Latin America History To 1600

Step 1: Start your search process by brainstorming a list of keywords that describe the main concepts of your topic or question.

Step 2: Use these keywords for your initial searches.

Step 3: Use the Subject Heading links in the Library Catalog record to refine your search.

Step 4: You may also want to try a SUBJECT begins with search in Library Catalog with your keywords.

1. Use AND to combine terms

example:  jesuits AND mexico

2. Use OR to search related terms

example:  War OR Warfare

3. Use $ or ? to truncate a word and return all possible endings

example:  jesuit$

(searches for all variants of the words jesuit, jesuits, jesuitas..)

4. Use parentheses when combining OR and AND in a single search

(pirates OR piracy) AND Mediterranean