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 3 below, using keywords (Any Field in Tripod), rather than subjects, will pick up results for concepts that are not well represented in subject terms. It also will find the topics in chapter titles and summary notes.
(FARC OR (guerilla* AND colombia*) OR (terror* AND colombia*)) AND (women* OR gender* OR girl*) [Any Field]
(motherhood OR maternal OR mothers) [Subject] AND (policy OR policies OR law OR legal) [Subjects] AND "united states" [Subject] Limited to titles published 2000-2023
metoo [Subject] metoo [Any Field] AND ((prosecut* OR trial* OR punish*)
(lgbtq* OR "sexual minorities" OR gay OR queer OR transgender* OR lesbian* OR homosexual*) ]Subjects] AND (prison* OR jail* OR incarcerat* OR corrections OR imprison*) [subjects] AND ("united states) [Any Field]
** Try opening a search above and replace one of the topics with your subject 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.