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REL 111H (Carr): Locating Essays or Books

Introduction to Western Religions Description: A comparative introduction to the 'religions of Abraham'—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—with attention to historical development, scriptures, beliefs, practices, and diverse cultural expressions.

Finding Essays (Chapters)

If the ATLA source type is essay, search for it by the title of the whole book in WestCat.

Then use the location and call number to determine where it is in the library.
 

Where Are The Books?
Main Library
Call Number Location
A-DA 4th Level
DB-GN
GR-HJ
HM-LB
LC-PQ		 5th Level
PR-PS
PT-QM
QP-Z		 6th Level

How to Search for Books @ WIU

WestCat Basic Search
Allows you to search the books and videos at the Malpass Library plus the Music, Curriculum, and Quad Cities libraries.

  • Source type:  Specify a specific type of source such as book, video, dissertation, or map.
  • Search word treatment: Tell WestCat whether you want to...
    • simply find all the listed words in no particular order
    • find them as a phrase, or
    • search for them where they would appear alphabetically
  • Search type: Specify whether you want to find your words as part of the title, subject heading, author, or elsewhere.
 

Other search options such as ISBN are available under the Advanced search link to the right.

Don't find what you need at WIU? Change the search scope from WestCat to the I-Share Catalog tab to search our state system of 90+ libraries.