Find Books & More

  • What's in PITTCat?

Over 3 million titles including:

  • books
  • magazines and journals (but   NOT individual articles)
  • microforms
  • dissertations
  • electronic resources
  • government documents
  • maps
  • musical scores
  • audiovisual materials

If you'd like to see what's recently been added to the collection, check out our New Books page.

 

  • What's NOT in PITTCat?

Use Zoom!, the library's article search engine, to search for articles in magazines and journals.

 

Portions of the map, video, and archival collections, most pre-1976 government documents, and a small number of other titles published before 1981 are not in PITTCat.  Ask a librarian to help locate those items.

To find material at Pitt:

Use PITTCat, the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh.

PITTCat

 

Note: if an item is listed as "In Process," you can ask us to priority process it for you.

If we don't have it:

  1. Try E-ZBorrow, which lets you borrow from other Pennslyvania libraries. Items are generally delivered within 4-7 days. You will be notified via email when the book is available for pickup.
  2. You can also check the online library catalogs of local universities.

    -   If you are a Pitt student or employee, you can get a Special Borrower Card that lets you check-out materials from other colleges in the area, like Carnegie Mellon or Duquense.

  3. The WorldCat database lets you search across library catalogs to find out which ones have what you want.

If we don't have it and E-ZBorrow doesn't have it:

1.  If we don't have it and E-ZBorrow doesn't have it, you can ask us to borrow it from a library that does.

          -This is called Requests From Other Libraries .


2.  We'll also consider buying what you need.