Locating
Background Information: Books
 Overview
of the Voyager Catalog
Other
Ways of Locating Books
Interlibrary
Services
TexShare
Library Card Program
Overview
of the Voyager Catalog
The Voyager
catalog provides you with various options
for searching. Catalog searches include:
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Title
Title Keyword
Author
Subject
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Subject Keyword
Periodicals Title
Periodicals Title Keyword
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Voyager
contains:
- Books
- Children's materials
- Reference materials
- Special Collections
materials
- Titles of periodicals
- Scores and recordings
- Videos, CDs, and other
AV materials
- Information about the
location of library materials
- Information to the
availability of materials
- Items on reserve for
your class for the current semester
- Review of your own
library record (including which items
you have checked out, and any fines
you may have accrued).
NOTE: The library catalog does
not list articles published in individual
issues of journals. To learn more about
locating articles, see Locating
Periodical Articles.
Other
Ways of Locating Books
NetLibrary --
provides access to full text scholarly,
reference and professional eBooks (electronic
books). To see the full text of a title
you must create a personal account.
Over 18,000 titles are available to
Southwestern users. NetLibrary's books are identical
in format and content to the print
versions of the texts.
LibDex:
the Library Index -- an extensive
listing of library web-based catalogs
and home pages.
Voyager's New Books Search -- finds new items added
to the library collection over the past few weeks.
University
of Texas at Austin: UT Library
Online -- UTNetCAT is the
online catalog of the University
of Texas at Austin libraries.
UTNetCAT provides information
on the millions of items in
the UT Austin libraries.
WorldCat (OCLC)
-- the combined catalogued holdings
of thousands of libraries, searchable
by keywords, as well as by subject
headings, author and title. This
is an excellent way to find books
on your topic even if Smith Library
Center does not own them.
Interlibrary
Services
Through Interlibrary Services,
currently enrolled students,
faculty, and staff may borrow
books, journal articles and other
research materials not owned
by the A. Frank Smith Library.
You may wish to use the interlibrary
loan form to order titles
that we don't have. There is
a two to three week turnaround
time for most book loan requests.
Check at the reference desk for
further information and assistance.
To learn more about Interlibrary
Loan Services, see the Interlibrary
Services FAQ page.
TexShare
Library Card Program
The TexShare Library Card Program
allows currently enrolled students,
faculty and staff from Texas
colleges and universities to
go to participating TexShare
college libraries across
the state, and check out books.
Cards are issued by the Circulation
staff. For additional information,
please visit the Circulation
Desk.
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