WorldCat - Use WorldCat to expand your search for books, theses, etc. beyond the Five College area. Watch for items that are owned by only one library; such unique material is often not obtainable via interlibrary loan.

Use the SC Links button within WorldCat to access and populate the interlibrary loan forms.

Suggest Purchase - If you run across a book that Smith doesn't own and you think we should, use this form to suggest that the library purchase it.

Discover: Start here for books, articles & more.

• Use "Login for full access" at the top of the screen and enter your Smith login.

Discover Advanced Search includes limiting options.

5 College Library Catalog

Note that subject searching isn't always straightforward. Try a KEYWORDS ANYWHERE search to find a few relevant titles, for example: rome provinces administration. Then click on the subject headings on those records to conduct a more comprehensive subject search.

Another strategy is to look up one of your assigned or suggested readings, then track through on the subjects listed on the record.  For example, look up The Later Roman Empire, A.D. 354-378.

Subject Begins With searches relevant to this course:

• Roman provinces - Administration
• Roman provinces - History
• Roman provinces - Politics and government
• Roman provinces - Religion
• Roman Provinces - Social conditions
• Rome - Army
• Rome - Colonies
• Rome - Economic conditions
• Rome - Ethnic relations
• Rome - History - Empire, 284-476
• Rome - History - Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries
• Rome - History - Military
• Rome - Politics and government
• Rome - Social life and customs
• Political participation - Rome

Note that works on specific emperors are listed multiple ways:

• Constantine, I, Emperor of Rome
• Emperors - Rome - Biography
• Rome - History - Constantine I, the Great, 306-337

Requesting an Item - Use the Request Item button in the library catalog to request delivery of books from the other Five Colleges.