Collaboratorium, The - Community Engaged Research

Watch this short video on using Find It - UFV library's discovery service.

When searching for items with the library catalogue:

• Don’t search by using a sentence. Instead, identify the main concepts related to your research question.
• If you don't get any results think of synonyms or other words that describe your topic
• Truncation: searches for variant endings. Use $ in the UFV Classic library catalog. (disab$ will find: disability, disabilities, disabled) In most databases use * to truncate.
• Use AND to combine separate concepts (architecture AND physically handicapped)
• use OR to combine different concepts, either of which are acceptable (physically handicapped or people with disabilities) and (build$ or architect$)

In order to find a book on the shelf, you need a call number and the location. Here’s an example: LC 4814 C32 T58 2011 Stacks

Once you have a call number, you can browse that section of the shelves for more on the same subject.

 “E-books” are available electronically, no call number needed. Just click on the link.

"Just Received” items are not available but you can place a hold on them to get them quickly.

“On Order” items are in the process of being purchased. This can take a long time so look for something else.

You can also request books from other campuses as well as place holds on books that are checked out.