Catalogs
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Essential Catalogs
- FranklinCatalog of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries' books, journals, films, scores, recordings, microforms, electronic resources, etc. It covers all libraries in the Penn system except for the Biddle Law Library, which has the LOLA catalog.
- WorldCatThe combined catalogs of most U.S. libraries;71,000 libraries in 112 countries. Material not owned by Penn can usually be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan.
- BorrowDirectThe combined catalog of the holdings of the eight Ivy League institutions plus Duke, MIT, Johns Hopkins, and Chicago. Students can use it to request books not owned or not currently available at Penn.
- EZBorrowThe combined catalog of the 60+ members of the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, as well as a number of institutions in neighboring states, such as Rutgers and NYU. One can request books not owned or currently available at Penn.
Subject Guide
Finding Books
One approach to using the library catalog is to browse by Library of Congress subject headings that pertain to women or feminism in different geographic/political regions or countries. Here are links to some results in Franklin:
Women--Mexico Women Mexico History Sources
Women -- Political activity -- Latin America Working class women
Women--Employment Feminism Women's Rights
Feminist theory Women and socialism
You can also search for books in Franklin using simple keywords, such as
american women radical* (the asterisk indicates truncation)
or you can search on subject heading keywords
radical* women "united states"
Or try that search as a simple keyword search
radical* women "united states"
Here is a keyword search:
And a subject heading keyword search based on some of the subjects found in the previous search:
And a keyword search with truncation: