Searching the catalogue
- To find books on a particular subject, use a keyword search on the library catalogue. For example:
- Keyword searching often retrieves a large number of results. You might want to limit your search by adding more words from your keyword list; for example:
Australian music and biography
Subject search
- You can only use the subject terms assigned in the catalogue.
- You can find these by looking at the terms on the catalogue records which you have already found. Browse through the retrieved item records and look at the hyperlinked subject descriptions that come with each catalogue record. For example:
Music -- Australia -- History and criticism
Folk songs, English -- Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Music.
- You can then click on a subject description to find more material with the same subject. Note that not all the results will be books: there may be other item types such as CDs, DVDs or music scores.
Author search
- If you know the author you want to find, enter the surname in the Author field of the catalogue. eg Radic, T
Books held at other campuses
- Don't forget that you can have books sent from other branch libraries to your campus for pick-up. Click on the Request tab and follow the instructions.
Catalogue Search
Use the library catalogue to search for relevant books, printed versions of journals and newspapers etc.
Key Texts
- Garland Encyclopedia of World Music OnlineAvailable to University of Melbourne staff and students only
Australia and the Pacific Islands by ISBN: 0824060385Publication Date: 1998-06-01Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Other library catalogues
Items listed in other libraries (Australia and overseas) may be requested by University of Melbourne staff and students via Inter-Library Loan.
Can't find something, or what you need is unavailable? The following catalogues can be used to find resources in libraries around Australia and the World:
- TroveCovers Australian academic and public libraries. Hosted by the National Library of Australia.
- Worldcat (OCLC)Search portal for over 10,000 libraries worldwide
- CopacUK and Irish academic, national & specialist library catalogues
- EuropeanaEuropeana provides cultural heritage enthusiasts, professionals, teachers, and researchers with digital access to European cultural heritage material.