Did you know that you can easily find resources cited in an article by using the red down arrow when viewing the record?
Did you know that you can search for library subject guides using the Everything search?
Expand My Results lets you search for resources that are not in the library’s collection, which can be used for an interlibrary loan request, for example.
Did you know that you can easily create a citation in The Fountain by using the “ (quotation mark) icon from the search results or record view?
Searching for physical books in The Fountain is pretty similar to searching for anything else. At the start page, you can choose to search only books.
The Library catalog doesn’t search only books. We have things in Special Collections: microfilm, DVDs, etc. It searches everything in our collection. The Everything Search does a search on everything in our collection, plus articles and book chapters that are created from the Central Discovery Index (CDI).
The best way to quickly find books is to do an Everything Search and then use the Material Type facet to limit to Books.
In the following example, I searched "HBCU" with the scope "Library Catalog."
You can also focus on broad "Everything" searches using the facets on the left side of the search interface.
In the following, I searched "Virginia Colleges and Universities" with the broadest possible scope. Then I went over to Material Type (marked here with an orange box) and selected just "Books" to reduce what I was looking at.
The system will let you know what filters you used under the "Active Filters" section, marked here with a green box. You can remove filters simply by clicking the X symbol or hitting "reset."