Online Library Research 

Online resources in the EPCC Libraries for English 1301/1302


 

Module1: Finding your way
Module2: Books and more
Module 3: E-Books
Module4: Article Databases
Module 5: Web Savvy
Module 6: Citing Sources
Northwest Library
EPCC

Using the Online Catalog

Overview

Books can still supply basic information on most subjects. The Online Catalog tells you what books and multi-media (CD’s, videotapes, computer files, e-books, etc) we have at all 5 campuses. Click on Search Catalog from the Libraries' home page.   

The catalog however does not contain titles of periodicals, nor articles from them. You have to ask for the EPCC union list to see what magazine/ journal titles we have.  The Union List is kept at the Circulation Desk at each campus library, and will shortly be available online.  Online databases are the best way to find articles of newspapers, journals or magazines because many of them have the full text of the article.  More about that in Module 4.  

If you want to only browse E-books (books in electronic form available from campus or home), follow the directions in Module 3.  Not all books are available in this format.  

Searching the Online Catalog requires different strategies than searching the web (which basically uses just keyword searching).  The most common ways to find books aretut

  • keyword search
  • subject search
  • author search
  • title search

We'll learn more about these in the following pages. 

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Tutorial created by Monica Wong,  Head Librarian, Northwest Campus Library
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monicaw@epcc.edu

Technical Consultant: Joe Old , El Paso Community College

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