WorldCat Discovery (catalog): Basic Search

WorldCat searches::

• Books, etc. in our library (displayed first)
• Consortium libraries: Bethel, United, and St. Paul seminaries (displayed second)
• Local and regional academic and public libraries
• Libraries nationwide and Canada
• Selected article databases
• Other online resources

Choose the content you wish to search from the tabs on the search box.

Enter your search keywords in any order

WorldCat will return records that contain all of your search terms wherever they appear in a record

WorldCat uses a relevancy ranking in the display of your search results

• Search terms appearing in the title, author, or subject fields are ranked highest
• The proximity of terms to each other.  The closer together the terms, the higher the relevancy
• The number of libraries that own the title.  The greater the number increases the relevancy
• All else equal, more recently published material will display before older

If you are searching for a specific title or phrase, enclose the title/phrase in quotation marks to search for just that sequence of words

For each record retrieved in WorldCat, libraries that own the item are displayed, beginning with our library, libraries in our consortium, then other libraries in the state/region and nation/world.