I need to find more books. Let's go to the mall and catch a movie or somethin'. Bryan wants to get started on his psych paper. He knows that books are good sources for background information, and often give good overviews of a subject because their coverage is broader than that of other sources. Bryan also knows that, to find books in Jackson Library, he should begin by consulting our online catalog .
Catalogs are lists of things.
Product catalogs list the products that companies have for sale. Our online catalog is a list of the contents of our library. In other words, it tells you what the library owns. You can find books in our library using the online catalog, and that is certainly true. But it's only part of the story.