Reference at Newman Library

How to Browse for a Book Title in OneSearch

A speedy way to find a specific book in the catalog is to do a “Title begins with…” search:

Browsing titles in the catalog

The results look like this:

Results of title browse

You can do the same kind of thing in OneSearch by going to the “BROWSE” option at the top of the screen and using the “Browse by title” mode:

Title browsing in OneSearch

Here’s one caveat about title browsing: in OneSearch, the books you find will be almost exclusively print books. What you are browsing in OneSearch are just the records that we’ve carried over from the catalog. In OneSearch, we represent our ebook titles not from catalog records but instead from records in ebook collections that Ex Libris (the vendor behind OneSearch) gets directly from the vendors of the ebook platforms we subscribe to (such as Ebook Central from ProQuest). In another post, I’ll describe the best way to find a specific ebook.