HY 347: The Holocaust: Finding Books

To find books and government documents in USA Libraries' collections, use SOUTHcat: USA Libraries' Catalog.

• Catalog tips and tricks:
  • Keyword searches – use quotation marks to hold phrases together ("nazi death camps")
  • Truncation – use ? after the root of a word to find all its variants (nazi? finds nazi, nazis, nazism...)
  • Browse the Subject(s) field in records to find the right words for searches. (Example: Try doing a keyword search for "concentration camps" then look at the subject(s) field in several records. You’ll see that the subject terms can vary from  "Concentration camps" to "World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany."  Click the subject heading to find more records with this subject.
• Revise and refine your searches.
• Watch for repeating call numbers and browse stacks in that area.
• Pay attention to the Location and Status fields. You will need this information to locate the item in the library. The Location field will also tell you whether or not a book can be checked out. A book that's shelved in Marx Library Reference cannot usually be checked out, while one in Marx Library Bookstacks can.

The Marx Library also has a special Holocaust collection, the Agnes Tennenbaum Holocaust Library Collection. These books can be found by searching Agnes Tennenbaum Holocaust Library Collection as a title in SOUTHcat. More on this collection and a complete title list can be found at http://libguides.southalabama.edu/agnestennenbaumholocaustcollection.

All of these ebook collections have a significant number of titles on the Holocaust.

OneSearch allows you to simultaneously search several library resources at one time, including our catalog and some of our ebook resources. For a complete guide to using OneSearch see OneSearch at USA Libraries. The OneSearch search box is located in the center of the Marx Library homepage.

To get started, enter a search term in the box, then hit search.