ENGL 161 Cultures of Desire

Finding books and music

Holman Library has books on the shelves and electronic books that you can read online. We also have a limited number of CDs in cases at the bottom of the staircase.

Use the library's online catalog to help you locate these materials.

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Search for books and audio video materials available at the library and online.

 

 

What do you type in the Search box?

  • Type in an author/musician's name, a title, or a poetry genre for a list of titles.

  • Use the menu on the left to limit to books or audio-visual sources.

You can also browse the shelf virtually from the record of any source or by clicking on the subjects linked below. 

  • Here is a list of titles from the search "romantic love" AND "poe?"  Why poe? The ? tells the catalog to search all forms of the root word: poe. That's how we get titles with the search terms poemspoetsand poetry.

Using Primo Advanced Search (below) type poetry in as a subject and change the source type to books to see the different books classified under poetry, including Love poetry.

You can also browse with the Holman Library One Search.

  • Enter POETRY as your search term.
  • Change within to SUBJECT.
  • Change SOURCE TYPE to Books.

Search - Poetry as Subjecvt

Browse Poetry as Subject

Music Database

Advanced search for books

Advanced Searching: Books

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Search page in primo, highlighting how to limit to just books

Poetry Foundation: Romantics

A keyword search of "romantic" takes you to this list of 658 poems.

You may also search by poet or listen to an audio-recording. 

Fig. Romantic: Poetry Foundation.org. Web. March 24, 2013.

Music Sources Online

Try these free and legal music sources online: