Books are useful for in depth information, including historical context, overview, synthesis and analysis of information. Often a chapter or two, rather than the entire book, are all that may be needed for your topic. The process of writing, editing, and publishing a book is lengthy, thus even the most recently published book may not contain the most current information on a topic.

Tips for searching MARQCAT

• Identify single words or short phrases that represent the major idea of your topic
• Try these as "Subject" searches in MARQCAT, follow the catalog's suggested headings
• Try the same words/phrases as "Keyword" searches.
• Look at the subject headings on the records of books good for your topic and search any that you haven't tried yet.