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*MATHEMATICS/STATISTICS RESEARCH*

Find an article, book,/eBook, video, citing example, or get research help from a librarian with an assignment.

Search for books

On the library's homepage, click Books & media

  • Enter the title or topic of the item you want to locate.
  • Use Advanced Search to limit to a specific library location (Juvenile collection, Popular, New Books), language, date.

[ search of libcat ]

Search for items held behind the Library Services Desk on Course Reserves.

[ Course reserves search ]

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[ WorldCat ]

[ Maryville Public Library Catalog }

How to search

  • Keyword searching using Boolean Operators
    • AND - results must contain each word:  puppy AND kitten
    • OR - results contain either word:  (puppy OR kitten)
    • AND NOT (book searches) excludes word:  puppy AND NOT kitten

[ boolean operators ]
 

"public relations" AND "team-based approach"  

classroom AND (discipline OR management)


("Kansas City" AND NOT Missouri) and 
crime
  • Does the library have the book "____________________"?
  • Click on Title - enter the title you want to locate. (Pro tip: If title doesn't display, remove the subtitle (colon and all text after it)
  • Searching by Author - an author search allows you to browse for items by author. 
    • An author is the person, artist, composer, government body or organization responsible for the creation of the content of a work.
      • Mark Twain
  • Searching by Corporate/Non-Personal Author
    • A corporate author is any group or organization that is responsible for the content of a published work. They include organizations, corporations, governmental entities, and musical or artistic groups.
      • Ford Motor Company 
      • United Nations
    • For corporate bodies that are best known by their abbreviations, search using the abbreviated form.
      • Example: (CNN)

What are wildcards?

  • Use an Asterisk (shift/8) to find all variations of a word

EXAMPLE:  ethic* finds any results with ethic, ethics, ethical

  • Use a Question mark to replace one character within a word 

EXAMPLE:   wom?n finds both woman and women

Browse books on the shelf with Dewey call numbers

  • 310 - Collections of general statistics
  • 510 - Mathematics
    • 511 - General principles of mathematics
    • 512 - Algebra
    • 513 - Arithmetic
    • 514 - Topology
    • 515 - Analysis
    • 516 - Geometry
    • 518 - Numerical analysis
    • 519 - Probabilities and applied mathematics

EBSCOhost eBook Collection

EBSCOhost eBooks

Comprehensive eBook collection of over 118,000 titles includes digital, full-text versions of academic books from science, education and technology to the humanities and social sciences, literature and fiction. Many (but not all) permit multiple, simultaneous users.

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