Research Guides: Native Americans in Maryland: A Resource Guide: Finding Books

Finding Books at University of Maryland Libraries

UM Libraries Catalog: Use the Catalog to search for books, journal titles, government documents, manuscript collections, and other materials owned by the UM Libraries. Check the box for "USMAI (All Campuses)" in order to search the entire UM System at once. You may search for a topic using word/s anywhere or subject word/s or use the Library of Congress Subject Headings (viewable within individual records or by using the subject beginning with... search).

Some examples of possible subject headings:

Indians of North America -- Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)
Indians of North America -- Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) -- Antiquities
Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans -- Middle Atlantic States
Indians of North America -- Maryland
Indians of North America -- Chesapeake Bay
Indians of North America -- Middle Atlantic States
Chesapeake Bay Region -- Antiquities
Maryland -- Antiquities
Middle Atlantic States -- Antiquities
Archaeology -- Maryland
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Maryland
Algonquian Indians
Conoy Indians

Lumbee Indians
Nanticoke Indians
Piscataway Indians
Powhatan Indians
Susquehanna Indians
Accokeek Creek Site (Md.)
Susquehanna Site (Md.)

Other possible geographic locations:
Potomac River Valley
Eastern Shore
Anacostia River Valley

See also names of counties, towns

The search box below will open the Catalog and launch your search in a new window.

Finding Books in Other Libraries

If you cannot find what you're looking for in the UM Libraries Catalog, try searching these other library catalogs. Use the Find It button or the Interlibrary Loan website to place requests for items not owned by the UM Libraries.

WorldCat UM
OCLC's catalog of books, serial publications, media, visual materials, musical scores, and archival materials in libraries worldwide plus holdings of UM Libraries, UM System and partners. Article citations from NLM Medline (medicine and health), ERIC (education), GPO (U.S. government publications, ArticleFirst and British Library serials
FirstSearch
OCLC catalog of books, serial publications, media, visual materials, musical scores, and archival materials in libraries worldwide. Includes material descriptions and holdings for OCLC member libraries. prior to 1501 - present . 'Phrase' searches will find records with the words not necessarily next to each other. For example, a search on 'sunny day' might find 'the day was sunny'.
To find author names, you must enter the name as it is found in the database. Try using just the last name to find all entries: Bellack OR Bellack, Alan
Center for Research Libraries Catalog
CRL is a consortium of North American academic and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through ILL. CRL holds over four million newspapers, journals, dissertations, archives, government publications, and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching. Holdings include such diverse materials as 800,000 doctoral dissertations (including those of Albert Einstein, Dag Hammarskjold and other Nobel laureates); some of the earliest African-American newspapers; and the 100,000-plus-page archive of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge security force. Emphasis is on materials produced outside the United States, and the Center has special strength in publications and archives from many developing nations. These holdings are available for use by students, scholars and other researchers affiliated with CRL member institutions. For more information see https://www.crl.edu/?l1=5 All, although majority of materials emphasise early modern and modern periods.