Librarians are available to help guide you no matter what you're looking for:

• Email us to ask a question or get more information.
• Phone a reference librarian.
• Visit a reference desk to talk with a librarian.
• For help from another student, visit RWIT, the Student Center for Research, Writing, and Information Technology.

If you can't find the item you need in Dartmouth's collections, search for books and other materials at other libraries.

• Search across many library catalogs at once using WorldCat; Worldcat allows you to find books in 9,000+ other libraries from around the world.
• For more options, look at this list of library catalogs.
• Request books that Dartmouth doesn't own through Borrow Direct or DartDoc, the Library's interlibrary loan service.

The Dartmouth College Library Catalog contains everything owned or licensed by the library: books and journals, both print and electronic, videos, CDs, maps, manuscripts, scores, sound recordings, and more.

Search the Library Catalog by author, title, subject, keyword.

• Title search example: cat in the hat
• Author search example: shakespeare william
• Keyword search example: election and president*

Use catalog help to learn more about how to use the Library Catalog.

Find out how long you can keep your books, and how to renew them -- online, by email, or by phone.

Search the Dartmouth Library Catalog to find an item's LOCATION, CALL NUMBER, and STATUS.

• Find the LOCATION of the library on the campus map
• Use the Stack Guides to locate the CALL NUMBER
• What does the STATUS mean?

If the book you want is at the Storage Library or the Matthews-Fuller Health Sciences Library, then we'll get it for you.  Use the Request Selected Item button in the catalog record for the item.

Has someone already checked out the book you want?

• Request the book from Borrow Direct -- a service that allows faculty, students and staff at Dartmouth College to directly request books from Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University.  Most items will arrive at Dartmouth within four working days of when you request them.
• Recall the book from the patron who borrowed it.