Finding Books with CloudSearch
- Go to the Library's home page at https://hc.edu/library.
- Scroll to CloudSearch and type in your terms.
- There are two tabs with results: HCU Books/E-books and CloudSearch.
- The first set of results you see are books and Ebooks.
- If you click on the book title, you can read more about it. Be sure to scroll to the bottom to see additional buttons. You may also find book reviews!
Finding Books with the Classic Catalog
Library Classic Catalog - If you know you want a book (not an article), then the catalog is the best place. The main advantage of the Classic Catalog is that searching is more precise, particularly Subject searches. CloudSearch uses fuzzy logic in its searching and may bring up irrelevant results. There are two searches available on the home screen.
- Browse Search: You can do a browse search and look for a title, periodical title, author, subject, or series. This is an alphabetical search and dropping your search into a list. This is good if you want to search for a known item (you know the title you want). The catalog works well if you want to search your term as a subject search
- Keyword Search: This can either look for a word or phrase anywhere in the record (choose the "Words or Phrases" option in the drop-down box) or search for a word in any of the title, author, or subject fields. This is good to expand your search and broaden the results. This works well when you perform a subject search of your word(s) or phrase(s).
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Last updated: 20230515