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Reference Tools

Locating Reference Resources

The most current and popular reference resources are kept in the Reference Area on the first floor of the Middleton Library. We keep them there because they are used so often by so many people. This is also the reason they can not be checked out like regular books. There are, however, more reference books scattered throughout the stacks which you can check out.

To find reference resources in the library catalog, do a keyword search combining a broad subject with a type of reference resource.
These searches work best if you truncate the type of reference source with the $ dollar symbol.

Examples:

"medicine and dictionar$"

"biology and handbook$"

"Europe and atlas$"

          

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