Find books on a particular subject

Locating books on a specific subject

To locate any books in Hewes Library, you need to take a look at the online catalog. The step-by-step instructions listed below will help you to begin your search:

Start at the Hewes Library Homepage
The library's catalog can be accessed from the Quicklinks section on the right-hand side, called Hewes Library Online Catalog or from the Catalogs page on the left-hand side.
When the main search screen in the library's catalog appears, you have two options. You can browse subject headings, or you can find them on a search. Subject Keyword searches will look for the information you have entered in the subject heading fields of all item's records. Every item in the library's catalog has been assigned at least one, if not more than one, subject heading to describe the contents of the item. You can also do regular General, Author, and Title searches to find books that match your topic and use the subject headings already in those records to lead you towards other relevant material.
For example, General Keyword searches using the terms "World War II" will yield some results in the library's catalog. The subject heading for the same topic in the catalog is "World War, 1939-1945" and searching with the subject heading will return twice as many results.

I have the call number, now what?

Hewes Library is three levels and different collections reside on different levels. A brief description of the collections' locations is below. A more detailed Collection outline, describing the collections' content and locations is also available.

Circulating Collection / Upper & Main Levels
Reference Collection / Main Level
Current Periodicals / Main Level
Periodicals / Lower Level, Green Shelving
Print Government Documents / Lower Level, Tan Shelving
Government Documents - Microfiche & Microfilm / Main Level, Microforms Room
Print Indexes / Main Level
Microforms / Main Level
Videocassettes and DVDs / Main Level
LPs / Lower Level
CDs / Main Level
Special Collections / Upper Level
Monmouth College Archives / Upper Level
Len G. Everett Galleries / Upper Level
Curriculum Lab / Wallace Hall, Room 208

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