Search the Catalog for information about print and electronic books available at Emmanuel College and the other Fenway Library Organization (FLO). You can search by selecting Books/Videos or Discovery Search.
To use the Discovery Search you can type in the name of an article, topic, or book and see results. You may also use Keyword (Advanced) Search to broaden and/or limit your results. Here is an image of the Discovery Search.
You can use the checkbox to limit your results. If you select At My Library it will only find items within Cardinal Cushing Library. In order to search for books type one or two words into the top search box. This will give you a broad search. To narrow it down you can use the AND OR NOT feature. (This is called a Boolean Search).
The default setting (AND) requires that a term or phrase from each box be present in your results. Adding terms or phrases separated by AND limits your results. Think of searching for people living in Boston AND only searching for Emmanuel students. Selecting other options (OR, NOT) will affect your results.
- OR finds items that contain terms from either textbox (or from both), broadening your results. Imagine searching for people living in Boston OR Emmanuel students.
- NOT excludes any results that contain terms from the second textbox of the pair. Imagine searching for people from Boston NOT Emmanuel students.
For more information about searching please see our FAQ.
Searching Books/Videos
To search in our books/video collection you may type the name of the book into the search box. If you leave it on All Fields the search will be able to look for a title, author, keyword. If you want the search to be more specific select the field you are looking for and then type it in. For example, I can use the drop down arrow to select author. Then I can search for Jane Austen. The catalogue will pull up a list of works written by Austen.
If we do not have a book you are looking for, try searching the Internet Archive. You can select the link and then search with your selected title.
See also:
- The Other Libraries link on the library web site.
- Interlibrary Loan link to request books that are not owned by Emmanuel.
- Related FAQs:
- How do I browse the shelves by topic?
- How do I find a book on the shelf (read a Library of Congress Call Number)?
