LibGuides: HISTORY--Local History: FINDING BOOKS

CONSORT

Search the CONSORT CATALOG for items held by CONSORT Libraries. Consort is a shared catalog for the following schools: The College of Wooster, Denison University, Kenyon College, and Ohio Wesleyan University. You can request books held in other CONSORT libraries directly through the CONSORT system. They will be placed on hold for you at the Andrews Circulation Desk.

CONSORT CATALOG
The combined library catalog of The College of Wooster, Denison University, Kenyon College, and Ohio Wesleyan University.

OhioLINK

Search the OhioLINK CATALOG for items held by OhioLINK Libraries. You can request books held in other OhioLINK libraries directly through the OhioLINK system. They will be placed on hold for you at the Andrews Circulation Desk.

OhioLINK CATALOG
The Ohio Library and Information Network, OhioLINK, is a consortium of 88 Ohio college and university libraries, and the State Library of Ohio, that work together to provide Ohio students, faculty and researchers with the information they need for teaching and research. Serving more than 600,000 students, faculty, and staff at 89 institutions, OhioLINK’s membership includes 16 public/research universities, 23 community/technical colleges, 49 private colleges and the State Library of Ohio.

Browsing the Collection

History materials are found in the following areas of the library:

Woo Reference

Woo Main

Woo Oversize

Woo Periodicals

History materials will be in the C (Auxilary Sciences of History), D (World History), E & F (History of the Americas) classification areas. Follow the link to see a detailed outline.

LC Classification Outline

SEARCH STRATEGY

NARROW YOUR TOPIC

Key Words

•Use AND between key words to narrow your topics

Example: Searching just WOOSTER OHIO will bring up all entries that contain WOOSTER OHIO.

Searching WOOSTER OHIO and HISTORY will bring up only those entries on WOOSTER OHIO that deal with HISTORY.

If you search WOOSTER OHIO and HISTORY and COLLEGE, the results will bring up only those entries that deal with all three variables--WOOSTER OHIO, HISTORY, AND COLLEGE.

By FORMAT, LANGUAGE, LOCATION, DATE OF PUBLICATION

•In CONSORT you can go to the top tool bar to MODIFY SEARCH

•if you are only want INTERNET RESOURCES, click on that option in the COMPUTER FILE box

•look at other option boxes, to further refine your results by language or year of publication.

LC Subject Headings

Books in the CONSORT and OhioLINK catalogs are assigned Library of Congress (LC)

Subject Headings. Here are some subject headings to consider:

COLLEGE OF WOOSTER

COLLEGE OF WOOSTER--HISTORY

WAYNE COUNTY OHIO--BIOGRAPHY

WAYNE COUNTYOHIO-- ECONOMIC CONDITIONS

WAYNE COUNTY OHIO--HISTORY

WAYNE COUNTY OHIO--MAPS

WAYNE COUNTY OHIO--NEWSPAPERS

WAYNE COUNTY OHIO--SOCIAL CONDITIONS

WOOSTER OHIO

WOOSTER OHIO--BIOGRAPHY

WOOSTER OHIO--BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES, ETC.

WOOSTER OHIO--CHURCH HISTORY

WOOSTER OHIO--DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL

WOOSTER OHIO--HISTORY

WOOSTER OHIO MAPS

WOOSTER OHIO NEWSPAPERS

WOOSTER OHIO POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT