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What's in PITTCat+, the library catalog?
- Books, CDs, DVDs, maps, musical scores, journals, magazines, newspapers, etc.
- Magazine, journal and newspaper articles
- Photos, manuscripts, and texts from Dscribe Digital Collections (Historic Pittsburgh, AEI, PhilSci, image collections, etc.)
- Cover images for books
- Tables of contents for close to one million books
- Book reviews online for close to one million books
- More about PITTCat+...
We want to get you the books you need when and where you need them. This chart explains the options.
TIP: Click the Get it! links in PITTCat+...
...to request delivery of books FROM any Pitt library (including regional campuses and Storage) TO any Pitt library
...if you're faculty to request delivery of books AND journal articles to office locations via Libraries to Go
If you don’t find the material you need in PITTCat+:
For articles:
For additional article searching use the library article search engine Zoom!
For books:
E-ZBorrow Lets you search and request books from other Pennsylvania libraries. Books are generally delivered within 4-7 days. You will be notified via email when the book is available for pickup.
Requests From Other Libraries (Interlibrary Loan) Use this form when PITT and EZBorrow don’t have your book or journal article. Interlibrary Loan will request the material you need from other libraries.
Online library catalogs Lets you search library catalogs from local universities and public libraries.
Pitt students, staff and faculty are able to get a Special Borrower Cards which allows for the direct borrowing of materials from other libraries, like Carnegie Mellon, Duquesne University and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
WorldCat Lets you search library catalogs worldwide to find out if the item you need is available for loan.
- When PITT and E-ZBorrow libraries don’t own an item, use WorldCat to confirm your citation information. Then use the Interlibrary Loan form to Request From Other Libraries.
Buying what you need Recommend the purchase of an item PITT does not own.
More about PITTCat+ :
- One click tools to refine your search by things like format, date of publication, language, author, topic, only not checked out items, only online items
- A visual word cloud displaying variant spellings of your term, associated words, and the same word in other languages to be sure you don’t miss relevant items. See PITTCat+ Search Tips (PDF) for more information or take a virutal tour via our PITTCat+ tutorial.
- The ability to save any search as an RSS feed to get notified when we add new material that's relevant to you. See PITTCat+ and RSS (PDF) for additional information.
- A personal bookshelf called My Discoveries that lets you save, tag, rate, and create sharable lists of items. See Getting Started with My Discoveries (PDF) for additional information.
- One click export of citations to EndNote, RefWorks, and other similar tools
