The catalog can be searched to find items owned and located in the MSU Libraries, including books, journals, government documents, DVDs, CDs, and more.
When should you use the catalog?
- To find whether the MSU Libraries own a specific book
- To browse for books on a topic
- To find whether the MSU Libraries subscribe to a specific magazine, journal, or newspaper
NOTE: You cannot use the catalog to find individual articles within a journal. For this you must search in the journal itself or use an article database.
Search Tips
To locate books on specific topics, search the Library Catalog. Begin with a keyword search which allows the use of everyday terminology and the combination of two or more concepts (e.g. "food and fortification"; "HACCP and poultry"); click on a title of interest and follow the subject hotlinks in the cataloging record to locate other books on the same topic. Use the truncation symbol to retrieve alternate forms of a word (e.g., food contamina* will find food contamination, food contaminants; food label* will find food label, food labels, food labelling).
Need something online?: You can search for Electronic Materials only.
