How to use the Library Catalog
Books by and about authors will be shelved together. For example, Christopher Marlowe's plays can be found alongside biographies and critical works about Christopher Marlowe.
- To find books by a particular author, search by author, entering the last name first, or just the last name.
- To find titles about a particular author, such as a biography or critical discussion of the author's work, search by subject using last name first.
Examples: Shakespeare or Austen, Jane.
- If the first two searches do not work, search the author's name by words or phrase. If there is a book with a chapter about that author, that book will show up in this type of search.
- A words or phrase search such as “Romanticism and criticism” or “Chaucer and biography” is another useful approach.
