Searching the Catalog can be a bit daunting. If you use the search box on the front of the Libraries' website, called Search@UW, you will get results from ALL of the UW campuses. In order to limit to what we have physically, you want to go the search page itself.
So first Click on the 'go' button
and you will see this
To limit to just what UWM owns use the dropdown
To limit further, you can use the Advanced Search
And then select your parameters
You can set your search type
and tell the system how you want it to search and don't forget about the other options
Finding a Specific Book or Video
Title Search
Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Who's who in contemporary world theatre
New York Times Theater Reviews
Journal
Author Search
Williams, Tennessee - Use the options in the lefthand column to drill down to what you actually want.
Subject Headings are assigned to each item in the library to help describe what it is like in its entirety. So books (or recordings or scores) will often have only one or two subject headings, but these headings are linked together and once you find one item that is exactly what you want, you can click the Subject Heading and the catalog will bring you back a list of more items with the same topic.
Books about a person: Ibsen, Henrik or Chekhov, Anton
Books about a class of people: Dramatists - American
Books about a type of playwrite: Dramatists French -- 18th Century -- Biography
Books about a specific play: Three Sisters (not all plays have a whole subject heading just for them, but well-known ones often do)
Books about a subject: Costume History
To sign in to your account so that you can renew materials or make requests from other UW libraries, look in the upper right corner for the 'Sign in' or 'My Account' links.
You'll see this and login with your ePantherID/PW
and you'll see the, by now, familiar screen
To see what you have checked out, any fines you have, requests you've made from other campuses, etc. Click on My Account
and you'll see this
What kind of call numbers are these ?
UWM Libraries use the Library of Congress classification system. The framework of the LC classification system for literature, which includes plays and books about acting and the theatre, can be found here http://www.loc.gov/aba/cataloging/classification/lcco/lcco_p.pdf
Note especially the PE, PN, PR, & PS classifications
Location, Location, Location ! ! !
Make sure that you look carefully at the catalog and identify where in the Libraries the item is located. An item might be in the general stacks, the reference collection, folio, compact storage, or even microforms. You don't want to go looking in the wrong place for an item.
My Account is your personal record in the Libraries' system --
Renew your materials, see if you owe fines, check to see if a recalled item is available.
