Use Subject Headings you know (these must be exact!)
If subject is a name, last name first. Note exceptions for medieval geographical and honorific names.
For topical subject headings, elements must be in exact order.
This series of monographs from Harvard shows religious ideas being expressed through different faiths, and how those people of faith work together on global problems.
Use LINUS, the Library's catalog to find books, E-books, videos and other materials that LMU owns or has on reserve. Use the dropdown to change the kind of search you want to do (see boxes at left and right for explanations of Keyword vs. Subject Heading searches).
LINK+ is a consortial group of over 40 academic and public libraries throughout California and Nevada. Using your MyLMU login name and password, you can request LINK+ books when LMU does not own a copy or when our book is checked out. Books are delivered to LMU at no charge and arrive within 3 to 4 business days. Read more...
The Library subscribes to a number of e-books. Besides the electronic Reference materials listed on the Getting Started page, we subscribe to monographs (single books) and anthologies (collections of essays) supplied by outside vendors. The majority of these books come from ebrary, with a lesser number coming from NetLibrary and other vendors.
All e-books are cataloged in LINUS, searchable by author, title, subject and keyword. They will be described as "electronic resource". You can just click on the link in LINUS to get the contents of the book. You'll need your MyLMU login information.
With many e-books, you can use the table of contents and the index, just as you would for narrowing your search in a print book. Often, the chapter in the table of contents or the page number in the index are links that will take you directly to the chapter or page indicated. If not, you can copy the page number into the "go to" box and go directly there.
Investigate registering for a personal account in these softwares. In ebrary, for example, you can highlight a passage, or create a note for that page; in either case, the software stores the page in your own little library 'bookshelf', so you can get back to that passage or page later, just by clicking on the excerpt in your personal 'bookshelf'.
Make a good guess and search by Keyword. You can search with a word or short phrase. You can narrow down too many results by combining your first word or phrase with another word or phrase, using AND as the connector. You can expand a word by using an asterisk (*) to truncate its root. For example:
