How to Find Books, Videos, and Other Materials

To locate books, videos and other materials try the following sources:

• MSU-Northern Library Catalog--to locate materials owned by the 4 Montana State University campus libraries and 5 additional libraries.
• Electronic and Print materials placed on Reserve in the MSUN Library by your professors.  Electronic materials can be accessed by all students, on and off campus, by using the MSU-Northern Library Catalog's Reserve Desk.  Print materials can be checked out at the Library's Circulation Desk.
• New books at the MSUN Library.
• WorldCat--books, etc., owned by thousands of libraries around the world.
• What is the Interlibrary Loan Service?
• Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad) Request Form for requesting books, videos and other materials from other libraries. (Note:  Distance Education students may use the Interlibrary loan request forms to request materials owned by the MSUN Library.)
• Off campus access to electronic indexes, databases and catalogs via proxy authentication.
• Guides to Citing material in research reports or other papers.

• Guidelines for recognizing plagiarism:

  • Indiana University Bloomington How to Recognize Plagiarism Web Pages

  • Avoiding Plagiarism resources for students and faculty (from Washington and Lee University)

• Award winning books:
  • Juvenile winners:
    • Newbery, Caldecott  (available on the MSU-Northern Library Catalog Recommended Reading Lists)
    • Young Reader's Choice (Pacific Northwest), Treasure State (Montana)
  • Adult winners:
    • Pulitzer, Booker (available on the MSU-Northern Library Catalog Recommended Reading Lists)
• Library's collections:
  • Governmental publications -- Montana and U.S.
• Classification systems used in Library (useful for browsing the collection):
  • LC, DDC, SuDoc