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Using Books at Reeves Library

Use this guide to learn more about using physical books and ebooks at Reeves Library!

Searching in Locate


 

  • Access Locate through the Reeves Library website or by going directly to https://westminster.searchmobius.org/search 
  • Use the search bar on the main catalog page to search by keywords, title, or author.

    photo of locate search homescreen with drop down of search options showing. Options are keywords, title, author, isbn, and issn
     
  • Once you have searched, you will see the results page. For our example, we have searched by title: 

    photo of locate title search for After Apollo: Cultural Legacies of the race to the moon.
     
  • Since Reeves Library has this exact title, it brought us directly to the record. This is where we can see that the book is listed as available, and the location is WC Reeves New Books. This also lists the call number, so we can easily find it on the shelf. If the book is checked out, it will be listed as Unavailable. 
  • If we want to search by keywords, instead of title, our search results page will look more like this: 

    locate search by keyword. Keyword in search is "space travel" and it is listing off the book titles
     
  • From here we can click on individual titles, or easily place a hold on items that are owned by Reeves Library.