InterLibrary Loan: No library has it all! But the InterLibrary Loan (or ILL) is a service offered by Holman Library for borrowing books and articles from other libraries. InterLibrary Loan requests are free to current GRC students, faculty and staff.
First, start with the books and articles available through the Holman Library.
Then, If you find books and articles that the Library does NOT have access to, just request them through Interlibrary Loan.
Using Interlibrary Loan increases the amount of resources available to you and helps you become a more thorough researcher.
Books and other items that require mailing may take 1-2 weeks.
Articles and other digital items may arrive within 2-5 days. Use your email as your contact info and the article will be sent directly to you.
If you need help filling out this form, call the library reference desk at (253) 931-6480.
Use the links below to look for books, articles and more beyond our collection:
Holman Library has books on authors, literary movements, themes in literature, and more. Search for essay collections, as well as for works on a specific author, work of literature, or idea.
To find scholarly criticism, try adding the keyword: criticism or the subject term: literary criticism.
As always, try a range of search terms to find the best results for your purpose.
Here is a scholarly electronic book found in the Holman Library catalog with the search terms:
"Langston Hughes" AND criticism
Clues this is a scholarly work: This is an edited work by an academic press. The Subject is: Criticism and Interpretation. It includes a bibliography.
Clues this is a scholarly work: The author(s) has academic credentials.
Clues this is a scholarly work: The author engages substantively with the text and with the ideas of other scholars.
A scholarly book will:
Be written by an expert or experts in the field (PH.D., M.D., etc)
Usually present new research or analysis of previous research
Offer sustained, sophisticated, and in-depth analysis and discussion
Often be printed by a University Press
Not be written for popular audiences
While you can limit a search for articles to scholarly (peer reviewed) journals, you cannot do the same with books.
You can, however, use the library’s online catalog to look for scholarly books:
Read the record for the author and publisher. Are the credentials academic?
Many of our scholarly books are ebooks. That gives you a chance to assess if the book is scholarly!