The search box on the home page is the best place to start. Choose "Books, Ebooks, and Media" to search for both print and ebooks.

You can change your search options in Advanced search by changing the Search Indexes:

• Keyword - for searching all titles, subjects and abstracts for a key word. (most common search)
• Title - If you know the title of the book, choose "title" from the menu and type the title.
• Author - If you want to view all the books by an author.
• Subject/ Subject Phrase - Similar to key words, all records have assigned subjects. You can search basic subjects, such as "Pentecostalism"

WorldCat is a research tool that has helped make modern scholarship possible. It is the largest library catalog in the world!

Besides allowing you to search the world's largest union catalog, it provides an easy way for you to request interlibrary loans (ILL) of books not held by the ORU Library. OCLC members supply an ILL request every 1.4 seconds.

You can use Worldcat to do the following:

1. To see what books other libraries might have on a particular topic that the ORU Library does not own.
2. To locate a near-by library that owns a book that is not accessible through the ORU Library.
3. To initiate an interlibrary loan request for a book or a dissertation from another library.
4. To find out what books a particular author has written.
5. To find out whether a book written in a language you don't know has been translated into a language you do know.