Try our Guide to InfoSoup (pdf format) for an overview of everything the new catalog has to offer. For more help on searches, see below.

Video help is also available for several InfoSoup features. Try our screencasts for help on:

• adding reviews
• adding ratings
• finding similar titles and other editions (a.k.a. LibraryThing)
• freezing holds
• reset your PIN
• using "My Lists"
• using saved searches

There are many ways to search the library's catalog. Each of the help pages linked below will give you tips on searching for specific kinds of items.

We also have created special pages to help you find materials by format. You can search for books only, DVDs or VHS, music, audiobooks or ebooks. Go to the InfoSoup homepage and select a link under "I'm Looking For..." to get started.

Keyword searching is a more powerful way to search the library catalog. It permits the use of adjacency, truncation, proximity, operators and field limits to home in on precisely the items you need. You can do two types of keyword searches:

Just in case, here are links to some help for many of the tasks one might need to perform.

If you're looking for a magazine article, newspaper article or would like to search resources outside of our catalog, visit the Additional Resources page to see what we have to offer. Some materials may only be available within a library and not remotely. To see when a library is open and what their contact information and address is, use the Libraries link at the top of all pages.