Finding Books -- interdepartmental 180
diversity and discrimination in employment and higher education

FINDING BOOKS IN W&L LIBRARIES

Annie, the W&L library catalog, lists (nearly) all the books and other materials in Leyburn Library, the Law Library, and other libraries on the W&L campus.

The preferred method for searching Annie probably would be the Keyword option on Annie's menu -- which allows you to combine terms and/or to search for various forms of a term.
You can search for various forms of a word by placing one or more asterisks at the end of a term. (See this guide.)

Some sample searches:

• employ* --  forms of the term (employment, employee, employer, etc), with this result
 
• employ* AND discriminat* --  forms of both words, combined, with this result
• "higher education" AND "affirmative action" -- multi-word phrases, with this result
• diversity AND (college* OR "higher education")   --   combining synonyms, with this result

FINDING BOOKS OUTSIDE W&L

There are two basic methods of searching for books outside the W&L library system:

• searching individual institutions' catalogs;
• using the commercial WorldCat system to search hundreds of library catalogs simultaneously.

Both these approaches are available through our Library Catalogs Web page.

Remember -- many books not available at W&L may be borrowed from other libraries through interlibrary loan.