College of DuPage Library

Library Catalog

What is the Library catalog?

The Library Catalog

The Library Catalog is used to find all the "things" in the Library's collection. This includes physical objects like books, DVDs and CDs, anatomical models, print journals, and audiobooks. The catalog also helps you find online resources like e-books, streaming videos, online journal and magazine articles, and websites.

It also important to know, when you use our catalog, you're search more than just the COD Library; you're searching academic libraries throughout Illinois and libraries throughout the world that COD Library users can access. Learn more about these libraries here:

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Search Terms

Here we need to list some "top" tips: choosing fields, combining "AND" and "OR, and using quotation marks for phrases.




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Material Types

The Library catalog searches for more than just books--you can use it to find videos, articles, audiobooks, and magazines as well as books and e-books. Use this setting to search for only one of these types of materials.

Without changing any settings, your searches will bring back books and e-books.

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Material Locations

By default, the Library catalog will search for materials from not only the COD Library, but also I-Share and worldwide libraries. In most cases, items held by the COD Library are listed first with items from other libraries listed after that.

However, you can use this setting to limit your searched to only the COD Library or only the COD and I-Share libraries.