Power Search for books, articles, and more!
Choosing the right search term will help yield the best results. You can start your search with "native american*" or "indigeous art" to find books about Native American artists broadly, but the official Library of Congress subject heading is "Indians of North America." I recommend you search using both phrases, using quotation marks to ensure the systems searches by phrase.
Here are some samples of Library of Congress subject headings to keep in mind:
When you find a relevant book in the library catalog, examine the subject headings in the full record to find additional keywords to search.
For more information about how the Library of Congress chose subject headings and subheadings can be found here.
When searching for materials, use different variants such as:
Ebook Central: A database for ebooks providing breadth and depth of authoritative content. Also available through the Library's catalog.
Springer eBooks: Over 55,000 books available online. Springer’s eBook Collection uses the portability, searchability, and unparalleled ease of access of PDF and HTML data formats to make access for researchers as convenient as possible.
WorldCat: Over 1 billion items in more than 80,000 libraries worldwide.
MontanaLibrary2Go: Provides access to digital content, such as Audiobooks and ebooks for patrons of participating libraries throughout Montana.
TumbleBook Library: TumbleBook Library is a curated database of children’s ebooks for grades K-6, and includes animated talking picture books, read-along chapter books, graphic novels, National Geographic videos, non-fiction books, playlists, as well as books in Spanish and French.
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