For off-campus access to library online resources, remember to follow the links from CLIO or this research guide. You can also use the proxy bookmarklet.
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.
This is the catalog of the Columbia Law Library - you can search here directly. You can find law library materials in CLIO, but you need to click on the link to Pegasus to see if the book is available for you to check out.
Teachers College Library has a fantastic collections of materials of education, available for BC/CU students. Search the Teachers College Library catalog, Educat. Teachers College materials are not shown in CLIO. Teachers College is on West 120th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.
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: "human rights"
Use * for truncation (to find variant spellings and endings of a word): wom*n will find woman, women, womyn; activis* will find activism, activist, activists, 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.
​Use parentheses to group terms: Afghanistan AND (refugee* OR asylum)
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.
