The library's Primo database, accessible through our homepage, can be used to find out what print and online books are available to W&L researchers.  Here are some suggestions.

If You are Searching for Books on a Topic

If you are using the basic "Simple Search" (or "Search Everything"), a drop-down menu will be activated which allows you to select "Books Only."
If you are using "Advanced Search," you can select "Books Only."

You can combine words or forms of words that appear in descriptions of books.  Some examples:

• books on issues re: post-Communist transition in Romania:  romania AND transition*
• synonym search for books on immigration issues in Hungary:  hungary AND (immigra* OR migra*)
• one way to find books on 1989 upheaval in Czechoslovakia:  "velvet revolution"

If You Know a Book's Author or Title

Select Browse Search ( you may have to choose "Advanced Search" to see this) and then use the drop-down menu to:

• Browse by Author -- enter author's last name, plus some or all of the first name.  For example:  books by Kundera Milan
• Browse by Title -- enter the beginning of a book's title.  For example:  titles beginning Harry Potter and.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) enables current W&L undergraduate students, faculty, and staff to use other libraries' collections to borrow books or other printed materials and/or receive electronic copies of articles.

Doctoral dissertations are not published books, but can be considered book-length scholarly studies.
W&L subscribes to a database which offers the complete texts of over 1 million dissertations and theses.