Film and Media Studies 220: Podcasting and Photography

To identify books, films, and other materials owned by St. Olaf and Carleton, consult Bridge², our shared library catalog:  

Items housed at Carleton may be requested through the Bridge² Catalog by clicking on the NOT CHECKD OUT | Request button. Items are usually available for pick-up within 24 hours of your request. You will receive an email when the item arrives.

Getting Started

The Advanced Search interface in Bridge² gives you many more options for creating a precise search. You can limit your results to a particular format (book, CD, DVD, etc.), language, or range of publication years.

Search Tips

Use a keyword (also known as "All Fields") search if you aren't looking for a specific book, or if you wish to combine multiple ideas.

• refugees and policy

Use an asterisk (*) to search for various endings of a word.

• cinema* will find cinema, cinemas, cinematic, cinematographic, cinematography, etc.

Use "quotation marks" around words that you want to keep together as a phrase.

• "French New Wave" and "auteur theory"

Subject Headings

Skim the list of search results. Once you find a book that seems relevant to your topic, click on its title. You'll see the catalog record that lists information about the book, including subject headings. Every book in Bridge² is assigned subject headings. They will look like this:

• New wave films.
• New wave films > France.
• New wave films > Taiwan > History and criticism.
• Hitchock, Alfred > 1899-1980 > Criticism and interpretation.
• Vertigo (Motion picture : 1958)

When you see a chain of subjects connected by a >, your search will become more specific the farther to the right you click.

Tables of Contents

Many of the books in Bridge² will display the Table of Contents in the Contents tab. That can be extremely helpful when trying to figure out if a book will be relevant to your topic. For example, a book about the recent history of Rwanda may have entire sections devoted to human rights violations even if those words aren't included in the title or the subject headings.