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7 Things to Know about the Bell Library

Learn 7 important things all new (and continuing) Islanders should know about the Bell Library and complete all questions to receive the access code to claim your free prize!

Try Quick Search to Find Books, Articles, Streaming Content, and More!

View of Quick Search on the library's home page displaying additional search filters under the search box.

Quick Search is your best bet to find a book, ebook, journal article, streaming content, and more! First click on the search box to display the additional filters below. Then click on the filter you want to narrow down your results to just a single format. Commonly used filters are: 

  • Books/ebooks
  • Articles
  • Films/Video
  • Music/Audio Recordings
  • Full-text online (OPTIONAL: use this filter only if you want just online to display in your result list)
  • Peer Reviewed (OPTIONAL: use this filter only if you want just scholarly peer reviewed journal articles to display in your result list)

Then type in your specific title, surrounded by quotation marks. An example might be: "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe."

Finding eBooks

Look in the center of the results page in Quick Search to browse for the book you want. The image below is an example of how an ebook looks in Quick Search. Click on the Full Text Online to get to the online book text and start reading. You may need to log in with your IslandID if you are off-campus or click through several screens to check out an ebook.

This image shows a typical ebook entry in Quick Search, and highlights the Full Text Online button underneath the main book information.
 

Print Books

Print books in the Quick Search result list will not have a link to online text. You'll need to either write down or take a picture of the book's call number and location. Call numbers allow you to find the precise location of the book on the shelf. Most of the library's print book collection is located on the 2nd floor, but in the example below, the book is in the Popular Reading section, which is located in the 1st floor Atrium area. Carry the book to the 1st floor Circulation Desk and present your ID to check the book out!

This image shows a typical Quick search result list entry for a print book in the library collections. In additional to the book's publication information, the call number and location are highlighted on the page.