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WestCat is the online catalog of the University Libraries. It includes the materials in Waldo Library, the Education Library, the Music and Dance Library, the Archives and Regional History Collections, and the Visual Resources Library. To search for children's books in WestCat, you first need to limit your search to the location "WMU All Children's Books" by completing the following steps:
  1. On the opening WestCat screen, click on the Advanced Search option.
  2. On the lower right hand side of the screen, click on the blue More Limits button.
  3. Under the box labeled Location, use the pull-down menu to select the location titled WMU All Children's Books.
  4. Now click on the Select Limits, Then Click Here button at the top of the screen.

Note: WestCat will retain your search limit until you remove it.

Once the limits are in place, use the Advanced Search mode to type in the topics of the children's books you wish to find. For example, to find children's books dealing with grandfathers, just type the word grandfathers in the first search box. You may also do more complicated Advanced Keyword searches using several keywords. For example, if you wished to find children's poetry books about nature, you would enter poetry in the first search box, and then nature in the second search box. Using the Advanced Search mode, the system will automatically combine the two search terms together. You can access WestCat at any of the terminals in the libraries, or through the Web at the URL: http://www.library.wmich.edu



Finding a Children's Book

Searchpath TutorialThis interactive library skills tutorial covers the research process from start (broadening or narrowing a topic) to finish (citation styles) and includes practice searching on WestCat, an article index, and the Web.
Searchpath is divided into six modules, each of which takes 10-15 minutes to complete. Each ends with a quiz, and the quiz results may be emailed to your professor or saved within Searchpath as proof of completion. If you want Searchpath to save your quiz results, you must use the link above to enter, and login as a First Time User. If you leave and later come back to the tutorial, login as Return User. Check with your instructor if the class and instructor's name is not listed.


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Maria A. Perez-Stable, E-mail: maria.perez-stable@wmich.edu
Phone: 269-387-5322
Last updated: June 2008

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