MST 2250 Museum Methods

Search across all of the library's materials using Spartan Search!

Watch this short video introduction to using it effectively.

You can start searching for books or book chapters in our catalog, Spartan Search. There are many e-books available for instant online access.  

If you want a physical book, follow the tutorial below to filter by materials available at Phillips Library. For more options, you can choose to search our partner libraries and borrow through IShare.

You can search for a specific book by a title, author or keyword.  The library catalog will give you the following information:

• Title of the book
• Author
• Publication information
• Call number (books) or access link (eBooks)
• Item status (available, etc.)

How to Search for Books
in Phillips Library Catalog

Try These Tricks When Searching Online

Tools like these help you find better search results more quickly.

Use the limiter site: to filter which websites your results are from. Add your own search terms after that.

Domain Name

Ask for websites that end with a certain domain name that may be more reliable or relevant.

• site:.gov  only returns sites that end with .gov (federally funded government sites)
• site:.edu only returns sites that end in .edu (higher education sites)

Website

Search an entire website from the back end with Google.

Add quotation marks around a word or phrase in a Google search to:

• require all results include that word or phase
• specify an exact phrase or spelling

Find the Tools button at the top of your search results. When toggled, new options will be revealed, like the option to filter results by the date they were published. You may also choose to use the Google advanced search to get more specific!