Rare Books: Searching Our Collections

How to search for a Rare Book in the Library Catalog

1. Navigate to the Library Catalog from the Pius Library Homepage

2. Select “Advanced Keyword Search” from the search dropdown

3. Include “Rare Book Collection” as a title in your search terms

4. Fill out other search fields as usual

1. Select "SLUth Home" to open the SLUth Search Plus homepage

2. Select 'Advanced search' in the top right corner of the search bar

3. Include “Rare Book Collection” as a title in your search terms

4. Fill out other search fields as usual

Many books don’t have many (or any) subject fields, so searching using keywords will bring back many more results

Try multiple terms in different languages: many of the book in our collections, especially Early Modern works, are not in English

You can use an asterisk * to truncate search terms

Example: search "herb*" as a keyword:

• pro: will bring back herb, herbs, herbal, herba, herbis, & herbarum (latin), & herbe (french)
• con: will also bring back Herbert, Herbermann, Herbelot & Herbipoli

Modify general catalog searches to limit results to just those in the Rare Book Collection by adding a title search for "Rare Book Collection"