Its emphasis is almost entirely in the humanities, but the search engine can be problematic. Interlibrary Loan Articles from journals and books not found in Trexler Library can be ordered through Interlibrary Loan . Allow at least 1 week for materials to arrive. While such sites are not necessarily bad, they should be scrutinized. One way to screen web sites is to use a web directory as your search engine.
Web directories vary in restrictiveness, but all have some rating system for site inclusion.
Another highly regarded web directory is the Librarian's Index to the Internet . Among the sites recommended by these web directories is Philosophy Since the Enlightenment . Trexler Library, as a depository for government publications, has an abundance of documents in American history back to the early 19th century. These are indexed in a series loosely known as Monthly Catalog , located near the Trexler Library reference desk, in the print index area. Documents from 1976 to the present are also indexed library's online catalog .