Google Books
This site allows searching inside books, including those owned by the library and those not owned. Some reasons to use this:
- searching inside books before heading to the shelves or placing a hold or interlibrary loan request
- tracking down an individual poem or song
- finding the source for a single chapter or page
- identifying authors, page numbers for quotations
- previewing books before purchase
- checking references attached to books to identify more items on a topic
To find a nearby library with the book: choose "Find this Book in a Library" then enter location: Ontario. Books no longer in copyright may be available in full text.
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Searches the contents of a growing number of books. Link to "find this book" to see if owned at Laurier.
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