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This collection is also called our "Popular Reading Collection." To find these books at TCU, use the words: "Popular Reading Collection" (with the quotes) in the TCU Library Catalog to find books in this collection.
The TCU Library has ebooks! Learn how to connect the library's ebooks to your reading devices.
To find books or articles on your topic at TCU, start with your main ideas. If I were interested in finding information about elections for example, I would try words like:
Politics
Voting
Elections
Use quotes to keep phrases together. For example:
Combine ideas to narrow down your results. For example:
"El Salvador" AND "social movements"
If you know the date of your event, you can add the date into your search. For example:
"Civil Rights" AND "United States" AND 1964
If you want to find books about a certain topic in a particular century, add that century into your search. For example:
"El Salvador" AND politics AND "20th century"
In addition to searching by topic, you can also search by title or author if you know that information.
To find books using FrogScholar, use the down arrow to expand "Material Type" from the options on the left, and then choose "Books":
