The Dartmouth Library Catalog
is an index to materials owned and licensed by the Dartmouth College Library,
including:
Books, maps, government documents
Sound recordings, musical scores, video recordings
Manuscripts and archival material
Journals, magazines, newspapers and other publications to which the library
subscribes
Computer programs, databases, electronic texts and journals
Materials on order or recently received, as well as those that are already
on the shelves
The Catalog does not contain references to specific journal articles. References to journal articles can be found in the INDEXES/ABSTRACTS noted above. Ê
Books
Author or Title indexes
To see if the Library owns a particular book search the Author or Title "fields" alone or in combination.
NOTE: Author search is entered LAST NAME first.
Title search is by EXACT TITLE PHRASE, i.e.: "Russia on reels"
If you do not know an exact title phrase do a KEYWORD search for the title words.

Keyword index
Searches for keywords or phrases across the major search fields: author, title, subjects, series, notes, and publishers.
NOTE: Multiple words are searched together as a phrase, e.g. "Russian popular culture." The AND or OR connectors must be used to create a relationship between independent terms, e.g. "Russia and music"

Journals
To locate journals in the Dartmouth Library collection look for them in the Library Catalog by TITLE.
Search for journal titles as a TITLE PHRASE, i.e. "Russian Studies in Literature"

RLIN Eureka contains information about more than 22 million books, periodicals, recordings, scores, archival collections, and other kinds of material held in approximately 125 major research institutions. Both RLIN and WorldCat have been increasing their international holdings by creating ties with major foreign libraries. RLIN , for example, now links to the Consortium of University Research Libraries in Great Britain and Ireland (CURL Union Catalogue), the Deutsche Bibliothek Database, and the National Library of Australia.
WorldCat is the public version of the OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) database and includes over 40 million records representing 400 languages. The database includes books, periodicals, magazines, newspapers, maps, computer data files, manuscripts, sound recordings, and any other type of material. Material dates from the 11th century to the present. Although many of the over 8,000 libraries represented are public libraries, virtually all U.S. academic and many association libraries are also included.
Libweb, a Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE, lists over 6,000 libraries (academic, public, national) in 100 countries (Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, North America, and Australia). It allows users direct access to an institution's library records. Useful in cases where a domestic institution may not submit records to a central source such as OCLC and for areas of the world which are not otherwise represented in shared cataloging programs.
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