How to find a book on your reading list

Your lecturer will often give you a reading list that will include books, chapters in books and articles. Here are some strategies to help you locate the different types of material.

Books

You can recognise that something is a book by the inclusion of a publisher, a place of publication and a date of publication. Here are two examples of book citations:

Price, L. 2000.-The anthology and the rise of the novel : from Richardson to George. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press

Ross, L. 1994. Text, image, message : saints in medieval manuscript illustrations. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press

The best way to search for a book in the catalogue is by doing a title search. [Go to catalogue.]

Chapters in Books

Chapters can sometimes be hard to distinguish. References to book chapters are usually identified by the word in followed by the title of the book. As the reference is asking you to look at a book, you will also see a publisher and place of publication listed.

Sturm, T. 1981, Drama, in The Oxford History of Australian Literature, ed. Krammer, L, pp.175-267, Melbourne : Oxford University Press.

In this example to locate the chapter do a title search of the book not the chapter title. Then go to the shelf and locate the book. [Go to catalogue]

[Next]