Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution 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 3 below, using keywords [Any Field in Tripod] (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles.
This link opens in a new windoThis link opens in a new window to look for relevant books owned by Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore.The following subject searches are a sampling of possibilities. To find materials on a topic, do a title or keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find some relevant material and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books.
"mass incarceration" AND (policy OR policies) [Keywords]
(imprisonment OR prisoner* OR corrections) AND (policy OR policies) AND "united states" [all Subjects] Limited to 2010-2021 publications
"wages women united states" OR "sex discrimination in employment united states" [Subject] Newest titles listed first
("immigra* OR migra* OR refugee*) AND ("asylum, right of") [All Subjects] AND "united states" [Keywords] Newest titles listed first
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. Also note that reports are often listed in WorldCat with open access URLs.