This guide is designed to help students locate and use an array of resources, including World Wide Web sites, online services, books, and both electronic and print indexes. The catalog contains electronic bibliographic records for books, video recordings, CD-ROMs, periodicals and sound recordings.
Most research begins with a subject search.
This function is both very powerful and very flexible in an online catalog. The best results are still obtained through use of standardized subject headings found in the Library of Congress Subject Headings books. Subject headings are also often subdivided into more specific categories, such as by period or by subtopic. Since this course explores religious experience from a number of different perspectives, searching the online catalog by keyword also can yield useful results. When you find a relevant source, check the subject headings in the catalog record or any descriptors if the citation is from an index.