Off-Campus Library Services: Book Requests

Finding and requesting a book in the Shapiro Library:

• Check the Library Online Catalog to confirm your book IS available in our collection
• Fill in the OCLS Article/Book Request Form

Finding a book in a Library Near You:

Go to Google or Yahoo.com

• Type in: "Find in a Library" followed by the exact title of the book that you want to locate; such as: "Scholarship Reconsidered".
• Use parentheses to keep the title as a complete phrase - (Scholarship Reconsidered).
• Click on the Search button. If the book is included in OCLC's catalog records, it will register a "hit" as Find in a Library: Scholarship Reconsidered
• Click on the hit to show a brief record for the book
• Fill in the search box below the record with your postal code, state, province or country to show possible locations in your region's libraries that have a copy in their collection.

Contact your local library's Interlibrary Loan Service to arrange a book loan