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FYSB 1294: Art, Sex, & American Culture

Library catalogs

CLIO Quicksearch

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CLIO is the library catalog for the Columbia Library System (including Barnard Library, but excluding Teachers College and some information from the Law Library). In CLIO you can find books and media materials, search for different kinds of databases, and find articles within those databases as well.

Catalog search tips

  • If you know exactly what book (journal, video, etc.) you are looking for, you can search by Title, Author, ISBN, etc.
  • To find items about a specific topic, first try a keyword search in All Fields.
    • Use "quotation marks" to search for an exact phrase: "black lives matter" 
    • Use ? for wildcard, and * for truncation (to find variant spellings and endings of a word): wom?n will find woman, women, womyn; ethnicit* will find ethnicity, ethnicities, etc.
    • For more complex search, use AND and OR:
      • AND finds records which have all the search terms you entered.
      • OR finds records which have one of the search terms you entered, as well as records which have more than one of the terms. OR finds MORE.
      • For more help with using AND and OR, check out our guide to boolean logic. 
    • Use parentheses to group terms:  (wom?n OR gender) AND (#blacklivesmatter OR "black lives matter") 
  • Subject headings: If you find a book that's relevant, look at its subject headings in CLIO and click through to find more related works.
    • Look for subheadings that indicate historical content or critical interpretations:
      • topics/institutions - “sociological aspects”
      • places (countries, cities, etc.) and groups of people/communities - “social conditions”
      • effect of item, activity, discipline, etc. on society - “social aspects”