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UW Worldcat is especially useful when you want to search as broadly as possible for a topic or when you are seeking a relatively rare item that isn't likely to be available at the UW. It also facilitates borrowing books from other libraries.

Tips for searching UW WorldCat for Books

• Try a keyword search E.g., for Sociology, "social aspects" or "sociological aspects"]
• Use the Topic limit (one of the links along the left of your search results) to narrow the scope of your search to a topic relevant to you.
• Getting too many results? Don't want to wait for interlibrary loan? Try searching the UW-only Catalog for items *only* in our system.
• See more info on UW WorldCat >>