Overview

The search from the library home page includes records for books, journal articles, databases and more. For more in-depth searching, search the catalog directly.

From the library home page, open the link to the library catalog.

Library homepage

Requesting Books

To have books shipped to the Center, simply click the Request button in the library catalog record. From the Request screen, select Pick up at: Cornell in Washington.

See Requesting items for more information.

Search tips:

Enter key words or phrases.

Place "quotation marks" around phrases.

Note the Search limits in the left-hand column.

You can limit your search by ...

  • format
  • publication year
  • language
  • subject
  • etc.

A note about online books:

We purchase online books from a variety of vendors and publishers

In some cases you can download, chapter-by-chapter.

In other cases, printing/downloading is limited to x-number of pages.

 

Catalogs

Open record links to find descriptions, subject heading links (for more titles like it) and Request options!

list of catalog records

To have books shipped to the Center, simply click the Request button and select delivery to Cornell in Washington!

Sample Title:

See Requesting items for more information.
https://guides.library.cornell.edu/ciw/books
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