Social Work Research Planner  Tags: social_work social_work_help social_work_research_help  

This short video will show you how to find books on your research topic at Boston College and in other libraries.

Find Books

Have you found a book you want that Boston College does not have?

• Log into your interlibrary loan account and submit a request.
• Allow 2-7 business days for books to arrive.
• There is no cost to you.
• You are notified by e-mail when the book arrives.
  

All the details about Interlibrary Loan.

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WorldCat is a very large catalog of library holdings in the U.S. and beyond.

Search for books on your topic and:

• See which ones BC owns
• See which libraries worldwide own each book
• Order the books BC does not own from other libraries using the Find it button
• Download the citation information about the books to your Refworks account (more on this under the Manage Your Research tab above).

Use Quest, the Boston College Libraries catalog to find books, DVDs and other types of materials available at BC.

Search Quest, the Boston College Libraries catalog, by Keyword(s) in Subject

Go to Quest Basic for more search options, including searching for a specific author or title.

To do complex keyword searches for books on a topic, we recommend using the Advanced Search because you can:

• choose where your keywords will appear (title or subject, for instance)
• build complex searches with AND or OR between your terms
• limit your search to the Social Work Library holdings
• limit your results by format (DVD for instance) or language
  

TIP: When you go to the shelf to find your book, look at the others nearby; they may be useful, too.

Want to try something new?

Search BC Collections in Holmes One Search.

• Get results ranked by relevance.
• View results grouped by topic, date, language, collection and more.
• Review or tag resources to retrieve tham later.
• Get new results meeting the criteria of your search by RSS feed.

Want help setting up RSS feeds? Ask a Librarian.