Search Omni to find books, journals, videos and other materials owned by the Library. You may search by keywords, author, title or subject headings.
Subject headings allow you to search the library catalogue for resources on a particular author or topic and are often more productive than keyword searches.
Keyword searches work best if you have mulitiple concepts or topics. Think of the words that best describe your topic and then connect them with the boolean operators AND OR NOT.
muslim? AND christian? AND crusades
Use the results to find relevant titles and identify assigned subject headings for your topic in order to find similar books.
(muslim? OR arabs OR saracens OR east?) AND (christian? OR frank? OR west) and crusades
Relevant subject headings for this course include:
Ayyubids
Byzantine Empire-History
Christianity and other religions--Judaism--History
Christianity and anti-semitism--History
Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Crusades
Crusades--First, 1096-1099
Crusades--Second, 1147-1149
Crusades--Third, 1189-1192
Crusades--Fourth, 1202-1204
Europe--Church history--600-1500
Islam--Relations--Christianity
Islamic Empire--History
Jerusalem--History--Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244
Jews--History--70-1789
Latin Orient--History
Mongols--History--To 1500
Papacy--History-To 1309
Richard I, King of England, 1157-1199
Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1137-1193
Templars--History
Standard Subdivisions
Library of Congress Subject Headings use standard subdivisions under place names (countries, states, cities and other geographic divisions) to classify works. Here are some for history, which can be further subdivided by time period.
--history
--civilization
--economic conditions
--foreign relations
--intellectual life
--personal narratives
--politics and government
--social conditions
--social life and customs
WorldCat
The combined online catalogues of tens of thousands of libraries around the world. You can request books in WorldCat that are not held by Queen's Library by using our interlibrary loan serivce.
Interlibrary Loan
If the book (or journal article) you want is not available at Queen's Library, you can place a request through Omni or interlibrary loan so we can try to get it from another library.
