Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution 
This link opens in a new window
This link opens in a new window
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 #1 and 4 below, using keywords (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles.
porcelain AND chinese AND history [Keyword search]
china trade porcelain [Subject] Sorted by newest titles first.
"material culture*" AND (ming OR qing) [Keywords] AND (china OR chinese) [Subject]
(clothing OR fashion OR textile*) AND (china OR chinese) [Subjects] AND (19th OR 20th) [Keyword]
(graphic* OR visual) [Title] AND (china OR chinese) AND (history) [Subjects]
** Try opening a search above and replace one of the topics with your research interest.
WorldCat is an important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tricollege Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 500 million titles owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan. Use the 
button to place requests.
