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Video Game & Interactive Narrative Studies (TriCo)

Searching for Topics

Before conducting your search:
  • Consider how your argument might be broken down into keywords or phrases.
  • Compile a list of synonyms for those keywords.  What other terms might scholars use to talk about your topic, and how do these terms reflect the type of argument scholars are making?  (E.g., publishing vs. dissemination)
  • Consider which intersections among your keywords will be useful for searching

Finding Books

Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution Connect from Bryn Mawr College  This link opens in a new windowConnect from Haverford College  This link opens in a new windowConnect from Swarthmore College  to look for all books (print and digital) owned by your college as well as print titles at the other two schools.  

The following subject searches are a sampling of possibilities. To find materials on a topic, try doing a 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.  The following are examples of subject searches.

               video games social aspects    Connect from Bryn Mawr College    Icon    Icon

video gamers   Connect from Bryn Mawr College     Icon     Icon 

video games design   Connect from Bryn Mawr College     Icon     Icon

video games history   Connect from Bryn Mawr College     Icon     Icon

video games industry   Connect from Bryn Mawr College    Icon    Icon

video games psychological aspects   Connect from Bryn Mawr College     Icon     Icon

hypertext fiction   Connect from Bryn Mawr College     Icon     Icon

interactive multimedia [as a Subject] AND (game* OR gaming) [as Keywords]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College     Icon     Icon

**  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 bibliographic records owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan.  Use the  button to place requests.

Selected Books