College Writing 1A, Asking Searching Learning, Fall 2017: Finding Books

1.  guano

modify search:  language:  english

2.  "chincha islands" or "lobos de tierra"

select "Melbourne, and the Chincha Islands [electronic resource]..." 

click on the link for the full text of the book, online; search the text (ex:  coolie*)

The whole guide: How to Read Call Numbers (and how to find materials on the shelves.)

ebrary is our largest collection of full text ebooks, with nearly 50,000 titles on a wide range of subjects. Find them in the UCB catalog, OskiCat (keyword: ebrary or limit to "Available Online"), or search the ebrary site directly:

Google Books contains millions of scanned books, from libraries and publishers worldwide. You can search the entire text of the books, view previews or "snippets" from books that are still in copyright, and read the full text of out-of-copyright (pre-1923) books.  Want to read the entire text of an in-copyright book?  Use Google Books' Find in a Library link to locate the book in a UC Berkeley library, or search OskiCat to see if UC Berkeley owns the book.

Why use Google Books?

Library catalogs (like OskiCat) don't search inside books; using a library catalog, you can search only information about the book (title, author, Library of Congress subject headings, etc.).  Google Books will let you search inside books, which can be very useful for hard-to-find information.  Try it now: