Library Guides: Travel & Tourism at the Latin American Library: Find Books

Find & Order Books at Tulane

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One-stop discovery of books/eBooks, articles, digital media, and more at Tulane University Libraries.
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WorldCat allows you to discover materials at Tulane University AND in libraries worldwide. View local holdings or borrow from U.S. libraries using Interlibrary Loan (ILL). Two different interfaces, the first a more in-depth option via subscription (FirstSearch, via the Tulane University icon link), and the second open-access (WorldCat Local, via the orange OA icon) offer unique user experiences.

Google Books
Use Google Books to do a full-text search of books in their database. If you find something you want, copy the title into Library Search and see if it's available. If not, order it through Interlibrary Loan (ILLIAD)
ILLiad - Interlibrary Loan Service
Is the book you want checked out of the library? Can't find a title you're looking for? Use ILLiad to borrow books from other libraries throughout the U.S.

Search Tips

New to the library? Check out these Howard-Tilton tutorials:

When you plug keywords into Google Books, it will search the books' full and partial text, which may bring up hits you wouldn't find by doing subject searches in library catalogs. This also allows you to preview specific pages relevant to your research. If you find a book you're interested in on Google Books, search our library catalog to see if we have it, and if not, use the resources above to locate it.

Books are assigned Subject Headings (controlled vocabulary keywords) when cataloged, which makes it easy to search books by topic.

Go to the Advanced Search page
Select "in subject" and then enter the subject you're looking for in the search box

For example, say you're interested in women's role in the Cuban revolution. Your subject search could look like this:

Books are purposefully placed next to their like-minded neighbors. Found a book of interest? Look at the books around it! Below you can browse subject specific call number ranges:

Spanish Literature .......................... PQ6001-8929
Portuguese Literature...............PQ9000-9499
Brazilian Literature................. PQ9500-9698.36
Literature of Spanish America.......................... PQ 7081-8560

These are just some examples of call numbers of interest. Find more Latin American Call Number Ranges on the LAL Website.

Want to browse the stacks from the comfort of home? Click on the "virtual browse" button under the title you're interested in to see the books near it on the shelf: