What's on our site

We have most of what you'll need to do an outstanding job on any research project. This site is huge. Here are some key sections and navigation tips.

Books

Books now take many forms.

• Books on paper: consult the library catalog, which also lists and links to electronic books (ebooks)
• Online books: Most of our newest books can be seen only on the screen of a computer or mobile device, with limited printing possible. We have more than a million such titles. All these collections have full-text searching through all their books:
  • ebrary
  • EBSCO ebooks
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library
  • Digital Dissertations

Articles, pictures, music, and video

Here too, the biggest parts of our collection are online. The library's Articles & Databases portal is the gateway to these sources.

• Know the journal title? Use this tool to see if it's online.
• Is it a reading your professor set aside for your class?  See Course Reserves, below.

Course reserves

Instructors set aside reserve readings in two ways:

• As electronic files
• As physical objects behind the Information Commons desk and searchable here

Course guides & topic guides: LibGuides

A major branch of our site has pages created by librarians and instructors to help with research in focused areas, such as for a specific KU course. These course & research guides can be searched and browsed many ways. Our home page includes a tab in the searchbox just for LibGuides.

What we don't have

Library items not owned by Rohrbach are yours for the asking. Use the ILLiad service to get books and articles from other libraries, quickly. Current textbooks are generally not available this way nor in Rohrbach Library itself.