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Scholars Research Seminar: "Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.": Getting Started with Books

Supplemental library resources

Books about Water

Try: keyword searches relevant to your topic. "water supply" and "wastewater"

Look at the subjects for a book that is of interest to you.  Follow the subject links to more resources on the topic.

Watershed management.

Water Resources Development Government Policy

Water Resources Development International Cooperation

 

Continue the search in Worldcat for more titles

Getting Started

Use Primo to search through almost everything the library owns. 

  • If you know the title of the book you are looking for, type the title in Primo. 
  • If you the topic you are looking for, use keywords. 

An Example of Keywords: Iran AND "green movement"

  • Keyword Tips: 
    • Use synonyms. For example, you might use "green wave" instead of "green movement."
    • Putting quotation marks around a phrase will tell Primo to keep those words together. For example: "green movement."
    • Using an * at the end of a word such as Iran* will bring back everything with that root (Iran's, Iran, Iranian, Iranians).

Look at the subjects for a book that is of interest to you. Follow the subject links to more resources on the topic.

Books in the Catalog

Try: keyword searches relevant to your topic. 

Look at the subjects for a book that is of interest to you.  Follow the subject links to more resources on the topic. Books are organized by subject on the shelves - you can browse for other titles nearby.

With Primoscopes are searchable domains...the default scope is to search everything, books, articles and more. "everything" combines the library catalog(mostly books) and e-resources (mostly articles).