Writing 120H: Art, Materiality and the Making of Global Asia
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Research and Instruction Librarian for Music & Fine Arts
Catalyst: Books, articles, scores, recordings
Want to find materials in specific formats? There are several ways to tell Catalyst what kind of material you want.
Use the buttons on the top: Make sure you are in the "Advanced Search" module of Catalyst. You can get there by clicking the "Advanced Search" button on the library's homepage. The "Audio/Visual" button along the top tells Catalyst you wants recordings. The "Books" button will search for both books and scores.
Use the Material Type menu: Make sure you are in the "Advanced Search" module of Catalyst. You can get there by clicking the "Advanced Search" button on the library's homepage. On the right is a section headed "Material Type." Click the dropdown menu to select the format you want. You can limit your search to scores, film/visual recordings, or sound recordings. This side menu will default to electronic recordings and videos; if you are looking for physical formats like CDs, use the top buttons instead.
A few more tips:
- Once you are in your results list, use the menu on the left to filter out whether you want physical materials or online materials.
- While Catalyst can be a good place to start your research, not all our online library resources will show up in your results, so be sure to check out the individual databases, too!
- Materials at Carleton may be requested directly from Catalyst and are delivered twice a day Monday through Friday!
Subject Searching
Searching Catalyst by SUBJECT
Searching Catalyst by SUBJECT is the smartest way to search the book catalog. The best way to do this is to search Catalyst using the Advanced Search feature. These "subject headings" are like tags; they are systematically applied to all records in the book catalog using a controlled library vocabulary.
Here's a sample search specifically for books about material culture in Asia -- "material culture, Asia" is the subject heading or tag applied to sources on this topic.
If you find a catalog record for a resource that describes your research topic well, scroll down to the "subject" part of the record. You can simply click on the subject heading you like and Catalyst will do a search for more items tagged with the same subject heading.
Useful Subject Headings
Material culture, Asia
Material culture, Japan
Spice trade -- Indonesia -- History
Arms transfers
Trade routes -- History
Pearl industry and trade
Silk Road -- History
Asia -- Commerce -- Europe -- History
Art objects, Asian