Identify Contemporary Books from the Era

If you wish to identify textbooks or other contemporary books of a particular era, you can either use a trade bibliography such as Cumulative Book Index which lists books published year by year, or you can use the online catalogs and limit your search by date.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The graphic above shows you how to conduct a search using a Union Catalog. Now practice your own search in the WorldCat database to find primary documents.