LibGuides: History: 79-303 Pittsburgh and the Transformation of Modern Urban America: Books

Books

Use the links below to find books on your topic. Reference librarians can help you select relevant terms and a good search strategy for your topic.If we don't have the books you need, there are some options for getting them. See the If We don't Have What You Need: Books tab above.

CMU's library catalog.
Find books, some government documents, audio and visual material (DVDs, CDs), titles of journals, but NOT journal articles, unless you search the "Everything" or "Articles and More" tabs. Your CMU ID is your library card.
Pittcat
Catalog of the University of Pittsburgh, use it to find books, government documents, titles of journals but NOT journal articles. You can borrow materials by getting a special patron borrowing card at the Hillman Library Circulation Desk.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Catalog of Pittsburgh's public library, use it to find books, government documents, audio and visual material and titles of journals and magazines, but NOT journal and magazine articles. Get a Library Card

HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
Digitized books, journals, and government documents from all countries and time periods.
Text-mine (full text search) over 17 million digitized works and create customized collections. HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries. Offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection.
WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Carnegie Mellon users only. Catalog for libraries throughout the U. S. and some European libraries. Find books, government documents, audio and visual material, archival material, titles of journals but NOT journal articles. You can see which libraries have the materials, and then link to them directly to get call number, availability info. You can also link directly to interlibrary loan. For this reason, some use this rather than CMU's own catalog.

Subject Guide

Charlotte Kiger Price

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Contact:

On leave until Dec. 2023. For assistance in History, contact CMU Librarian Ashley Werlinich, liaison librarian for English, Drama, and temporary liaison for History. For assistance in Modern Languages, use our general feedback forms.

Subjects: History, Language & Linguistics, Religion, Women's Studies