This guide will teach you: 

• how to search for a particular title 

• how to locate a particular title on the shelf or online 

• how to get access to a title the library does not own. 

We will also share some advice about locating textbooks and explain library course reserves which loans some textbooks for some classes.

Searching for a Particular Title

The Auraria Library website is the gateway to most of the library's resources, as 90% of our collections are online. Our library has both print and electronic books, and you can search for books in the library's collection using the Start My Research box on the library's homepage. 

Start My Research

• You can search for books and ebooks by title and author or keywords related to your topic.
• Your results will contain both print books and ebooks.
  • For print books, write down the call number to locate the book in the Library.
  • For ebooks, a green "Full Text Online" icon will appear beside the title. Click on the icon to access the full-text. 
• Search results can be filtered to books only.

Test it Out

Try searching for the book Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Did you find it? 

This book is available in print and as an eBook. Having a print copy and a digital copy allows you to read a book in different ways. Digital copies are easier to search and find quotes and page numbers for citation while print copies can be easier for some folks to page through and browse. Explore the print and eBook pages to learn how access different formats. 

The video below walks you through checking for access to an item:

While our library has many titles, you might need a book we don’t have. If you can’t find what you’re looking for in Start My Research, you have several options to borrow it from other libraries via the Prospector and interlibrary loan services linked above. If you need help or want to learn more about these services, please chat with a librarian: