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Sports Research Guide: Locating Books in the Library's Online Catalog

Searching for Books

When looking for resources and material on Sports, Health, Lifestyle, Exercise, and other related topics you can search by Keyword, Subject, Author, or Title via the library's online catalog. The catalog contains records for books, journals, audiovisual materials, government documents, microforms, special collections, and other materials owned and accessible via the MSU libraries. This link "Finding Books" explains how to locate books in the MSU libraries.

Is the Book you wanted Checked Out

Try searching MeLCAT to see if another library owns the title. If it is available you can request it and have it sent to the Main Library.

Searching for Books - example:

For example, you are looking for "books on Sports at Michigan State University". A basic search may include the terms "Michigan State University" and "Sports".

Performing a All Fields search in the catalog yields approximately 340 results.

Browse through the titles.

Once you choose a title click on the link.

The results will provide all the citation information you need. Which may include a link to the electronic version of the title or the call number to find the print book on the shelve or request it from Remote storage.

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