| A | B |
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| Search for Books and More | Catalog of library materials |
| Keyword or word search | Looks for a term you type in, anywhere in the item's record |
| Subject search | Looks for your topic in the subject headings of a particular item |
| Search for articles and more | Library databases |
| Off-campus access | Entry point to sign on to databases from home |
| Citing help | ECC Works Cited and Bibliography Format OR NoodleTools |
| NoodleTools | Subscription software that helps you do citing |
| Research guides | Developed by librarians to help with research in a particular class or for a particular assignment |
| Interlibrary loan | How to have material sent from another library for pick up at ECC |
| eccreference | Our IM screen name |
| libref@elgin.edu | Our email address |
| library.elgin.edu | Our web page address |
| 9 am - 2 pm | Our Saturday hours, during the Fall and Spring semesters |
| A Guide to Writing at ECC | Online help with writing, written by an English professor at ECC |
| Status | Tells whether a book is available on the shelf |
| Call number | The "address" of a book or other piece of material. How you find it on the shelf. |
| Reference section | Includes encyclopedias, atlases, dictionaries, etc. These items may not be checked out. |
| Fiction | Novels, short stories and other forms of literature. Not factual. |
| Biography | Nonfiction about the lives of real people. |
| Periodicals | Includes magazines, journals and newspapers. |
