LibGuides: SOCI 3925: Advanced Topics in Law and Society: Books

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New York Public Library
The New York Public Library (NYPL) catalog searches the circulating and non-circulating research collections at the NYPL.
Pegasus
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
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.
WorldCat
WorldCat searches libraries collections worldwide.

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: "eminent domain"
- Use * for truncation (to find variant spellings and endings of a word): wom*n will find woman, women, womyn, womxn, etc.; activis* will find activist, activists, activism, 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: (wom*n OR gender) AND "public defender"
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 sociological content:
  - 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”

Borrow Direct or Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
If a title isn't available via Columbia University Libraries, you may request it via Borrow Direct or Interlibrary Loan (ILL). Try Borrow Direct first for books - the delivery faster and you can check books out for a longer period of time.