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Library Resources and Research (HC)

Library Resources and Research: An Overview (Spring 2022)

Finding Scholarly Studies in Books

Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon  to look for all books (print and digital) owned by your college as well as the print titles at the other two schools.  

The following searches are a sampling of possibilities.  To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books.  Note that all these searches are in the Books+Media channel.  In examples #3 and 4 below, using keywords in Any Field (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles.

       (diversity OR multicultur*) AND education AND "united states" [All as Subjects]  Connect from Bryn Mawr College   Icon  Icon Sorted by the newest titles first

        art AND (activis* OR protest OR protests) [Subject search]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon   Sorted by relevance ranking [default setting]

       ("climate change" OR climatic) [Keywords] AND (psycholog*) [Subject]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon

        (hispanic* OR latino*OR latina) AND "united states" [Keywords] AND food [Subject]  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon   Sorted by the newest titles first

**  Try opening a search above and replace topics with your research interest.

Finding Books, Films and Other Resources beyond Tripod