FORL 2600: Literature in Translation, The Holocaust: Find Books

Finding Books - Advanced Search

Joyner Library's website contains the following simple search box to search all of its holdings for an item. 

If you are looking for a specific book, sometimes the catalog is the best place to look.  Clicking on the Library Catalog link under the search box will bring you to the full catalog with more options for narrowing your search, allowing you to construct more powerful searches.

Library Catalog Search Page

Searching Suggestions

• All Fields: Search using keywords
• Author: Search last name first.  Ex. Freud, Sigmund
• Title: Type the book's title (consider using quotation marks)
• Journal Title: This will only search for the titles of journals in our collections, and not individual journal articles.
• In the example below, we limit to Collection: Joyner Stacks - the largest collection in the library.  

Search Results

• Click on the title in order to find out more about the item - including where it's located.
• In order to find the book, be sure to record the entire call number and the location of the material.

Retrieving your Book

Check out the floor maps to determine the location of your materials.

Borrowing/Checking Out your Materials

You can check out books and DVDs using your ECU OneCard at the main circulation desk, which is located near the first floor entrance.  

The library catalog is where you can search for books, videos, DVD's, etc.

You may search the library catalog for items housed in Joyner Library. You may search by keyword, title, author, or subject.  Conduct a subject search in the library catalog for those subject headings which are appropriate for your class.

• Holocaust
• Concentration camp
• Auschwitz
• Hitler

Also, try word or phrase searches such as:

• Holocaust AND children
• "World War II" AND Holocaust
• National Socialist Party AND German*

Note:  By using an asterisk, all forms of a term will be searched.  In this example, catalog returns will include Germany, Germans, etc.  For assistance, please contact a librarian through the options listed under "Get Help."

Use InterLibrary Loan and Document Delivery services to request articles, books, media, and more from other libraries when ECU libraries do not have what you need.

Search Joyner Library's collection of online materials.