Poetry: An Introductory Guide: Books

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. For example:

 The Library subscribes to a good number of e-books.  Besides the electronic Reference materials listed on the Background Information page, we subscribe to monographs (single books) and anthologies (collections of essays) supplied by outside vendors.  The majority of these books come from ebrary, a large number from EBSCOhost's eBook Academic Collection, and a lesser number coming from other vendors and book publishers.

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 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 titles in the table of contents are links that will take you directly to the chapter or page indicated.  Using the Index, 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 highlighted excerpt in your personal 'bookshelf'.  You can create folders for different topics/classes/papers, and just get back to the books you've used with a click.

For detailed information about using, downloading and printing from our collection of e-books, see the Ebook LibGuide at http://libguides.lmu.edu/ebooks .

Use the Library Catalog to search for known works by Author or Title, or search for a topic by Keyword, then select the best Subject Headings links from the resulting titles.

Here are some sample Subject Headings: