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WRIT 1110: Seminar in Academic Writing: How to search for books

The resources listed on this page will help you to become familiar with your University Libraries at BGSU.

Library web site

Generally speaking, our library home page (linked below) is the starting point for accessing all of the resources that we subscribe to and purchase so that BGSU students, staff, and faculty have access to them. You can access both the library catalog (to search for books) and more than 300 databases (to search for articles).

Glossary for this page

Call number: 

  1. a mark, especially a number, on the spine of a library book, or listed in the library's catalog, indicating the book's location in the library.

All definitions from Oxford Languages

Does Jerome Library have the book I need?

Use the library catalog to find out if the book you want is in Jerome Library and if so, where. You can search by title, author, or keyword to find the book's call number, or location on the shelf.

Note: The call numbers may look different than what you have seen in the past. While most public and school libraries use the Dewey Decimal system to organize materials, academic libraries use the Library of Congress Classification System.

What if Jerome Library doesn't have the book I need?

Search in the OhioLINK catalog to request the book from another academic library in Ohio.