This exercise introduces you to the UW Libraries Catalog. The catalog lists the books, journal subscriptions and other materials located within the UW Libraries.

You are looking to see what books the UW owns written/edited by Charles Bergquist.
Type of search: Author Title Keyword Subject Heading
How many books?
What is the title of his latest book?

You are looking for Gigi Peterson's dissertation.
Type of search: Author Title Keyword Subject Heading
Dissertation title:
How can you request an item in Auxiliary Stacks?

You are looking for a copy of John Nelson, merchant adventurer : a life between empires
Type of search: Author Title Keyword Subject Heading
Library location and call number:
List the last subject heading assigned to this book.
Click on the subject heading. How many other books have this subject heading?

You are looking for an article by Robert Tracy McKenzie, "Freedmen and the Soil in the Upper South: The Reorganization of Tennessee Agriculture, 1865-1880." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 52(1993): 170-84. Does the UW Libraries subscribe to this journal? Note: use the journal subset of the UW Libraries Catalog.
Type of search: Author Title Keyword Subject Heading
What is the library location and call number?

You are looking for a book dealing with the dust bowl but are unsure of the complete title. You know it contains the phrase "okie culture."
Type of search: Author Title Keyword Subject Heading
Complete title of the book:

Any questions?