{"id":58714,"date":"2025-10-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/?p=161"},"modified":"2025-07-18T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:50:28","slug":"discoveryourlibrary-how-to-find-your-library-books-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/library\/discoveryourlibrary-how-to-find-your-library-books-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover Your Library: Finding your library books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You’ve met with your academics and you are getting ready for your first semester at Canterbury Christ Church University. You’ve been told you can find many of your course books in the library. But you can’t help but wonder…how are you going to go about finding a few books among thousands?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, if you read on we have composed a handy guide to finding those all-important books and resources. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Step 1 – Find the item on LibrarySearch<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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First you’ll need to find the book you need on LibrarySearch<\/strong><\/a>, the University\u2019s library catalogue and online discovery tool for books, journals, e-books, e-journals and, much more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To help you a link to LibrarySearch is located in the “Your Key Links” section of the current student webpages<\/strong><\/a> as below:
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LibrarySearch is easy to use, all you need to do is enter the author\u2019s last name and a few words from the title to find a specific book. Alternatively, if you are looking for a book in a specific subject area, just enter some keywords to describe your subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can use\u00a0LibrarySearch<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to check the availability and location of items before your arrival. LibrarySearch terminals located on all floors of Augustine House Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LibrarySearch monitor and keyboard located on the ground floor of Augustine House Library<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Introduction to LibrarySearch at CCCU<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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