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3 Steps for Finding Books

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• Use OneSearch on the Library homepage to see if the textbook you are looking for is available
   
• If it is, write down or take a picture of the book's location and Call Number
  
  
• Go to the Circulation - Reserves Desk to ask for it. 

Let's Try Find a Book Together

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Say, you are looking for the book:

Language Awareness: Readings for College Writers, 11th ed. 2013, by Eschholz, Paul et al

You Try: In the OneSearch box on the library homepage, type the Title & click Search like below:

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3 Steps for Finding Books

4 of 8If You Found the Book, good work! But before we continue, let's take a look at the Personalize your results feature:

You Try: Click Filter options on your results screen, then click Books under Resource Type. This really helps when you got too many results, and you want books only. Remember that OneSearch also retrieves articles...

 

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If You Got Few or No Results 

• Check your spelling. We often see typos when students enter the book's title 
   
• Try language awareness (omit the subtitle), and then limit your results to Books only. You can find books by using title key words. 
   
• Also try language awareness Eschholz (add an author's last name to a title search). This makes the search terms unique/specific and helps return more relevant results, especially when a book's title starts with general/common words as: Introduction to...

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Now click on the first title on your results screen to see all the editions of the book

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7 of 8Now you should see the screen below:

• Use your phone to take a picture of this info, OR
  
  
• Write down on a paper slip the book's location (Textbook Reserve) and Call Number: P120 .L34L36 2013, as you will need this info to locate the book 

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• Since OneSearch says the book is Available at Staten Island Textbook Reserve, you need to go to the Circulation - Reserves Desk, 1st floor to ask for it, and give staff the book's call number.

 

Types of Books

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Textbooks /Reserved materials

• When OneSearch shows the book Available at Staten Island Textbook Reserve, go ask for it at the Circulation - Reserve Desk.  You can borrow textbooks for 2-hours at a time.
   
• CSI library does not have textbooks for every course. If you didn't find the book in OneSearch, ask a librarian who will get the library to order the book. 

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Books at Stacks - 3rd Floor 

• OneSearch may show older versions of textbooks Available at Staten Island Stacks - 3rd Floor. You can borrow books from the Stacks for 4-weeks. 
   
• Go to the 3rd floor stacks (book storage area/open book shelves), find the book using the call number, & bring it down to the Circulation Desk to check it out.

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Books at Reference

• You may also find some textbooks Available at Staten Island Reference
   
• Go find them in the Reference Reading Room (1st floor, behind the Reference Desk).
   
• Reference books cannot be checked out. You use them in the library.

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