EU institutions are particularly well represented, with surprisingly little overlap with the other sites above. There's also a good section of EU documents, such as green papers, white papers, treaties and other important documents. The Library Catalog Phebe , the Library's Online Catalog, is the primary instrument for accessing the collections of the Bowdoin College Libraries. The catalog contains electronic bibliographic records for books, videorecordings, CD ROMs, periodicals, and sound recordings. For the Government Documents collection and the Special Collections area, specialized indexes are usuallly consulted since the records for those collections are only partially entered into the online catalog.
Research usually begins with a subject search in the Online catalog .
This function is very powerful and flexible in an electronic catalog, but the best search results are still obtained by use of the standardized subject headings found in the Library of Congress Subject Headings books. You'll probably begin searching in a journal index or the online catalog. When you find a relevant citation in any bibliographic index, look at the additional subject headings or descriptors for other subject search terms to enter. If your research topic is relatively unfamiliar to you, proceed from secondary sources to primary sources. For example, you might want to read a New York Times article first to gain some general understanding of your topic, and then find official EU documents on the Web.