ARTH 3110: Bronze Age Aegean Art: Finding books

You can find books in Summon by typing in a known title, author, or topic, then using the limiters next to your search results to narrow your results to physical books in the library or eBooks. The short video below shows you how to use Summon to your advantage.

The BGSU Library Catalog can also be used to find books. This is sometimes a better way to search for books by topic, because

• Summon searches for books AND articles at the same time (though you can limit a Summon search to books)
• the catalog takes advantage of subject headings (see the box on this below)
• the catalog searches the tables of contents of most of our books. These are not necessarily listed in Summon.

Use OhioLINK to search for books at other Ohio libraries, or find books in libraries all over the world with WorldCat.

Librarians use a specific vocabulary to describe resources, including subjects. Keyword searches are a good way to start, but subject searches can be more specific. Try choosing "subject" from the drop-down menu in the catalog or a database and searching for some of these suggested subject terms.

To identify the subjects used to describe a book (or an article, if you are using a database), look for the "subjects" at the bottom of the full record. To discover more resources in these subjects, just click on the link!

All of these books will be on the first floor of Jerome Library, but are in many different places! You will find books about Bronze Age Aegean Art at DF, N, NA, NB, ND, and NK, as well as in the oversized books. Explore!