The Online Catalog Phebe , Bowdoin's online library catalog, is the primary means of access to the collections of the Bowdoin College libraries. The catalog contains bibliographic records for books, video recordings, CD-ROMs, periodicals and sound recordings. For interdisciplinary topics, like this one, sources may be housed in the Science Library, or Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, or in the Women's Resource Center. It is very important to check library locations in the catalog.
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 place or by subtopic. When you find a relevant source, check the subject headings in the catalog record or any descriptors if the citation is from an index. You may discover other relevant subject headings to enter as search terms.