Books are great places to acquire in-depth information on a topic.
Remember: you won't necessarily be reading a book from cover to cover.
Browsing:
In libraries, books in the stacks are arranged by subject, so when you find a title in the stacks, browse the same shelf or shelves for related titles.
Monographs ("single - writing") are books dedicated to one subject.
While the UNH Library houses hundreds of thousands of monographs and published primary sources in the stacks of Dimond Library, the Library Storage Building, and in Special Collections, the historian must be aware that no library provides an exhaustive collection of potential sources. While browsing the shelves is a helpful and satisfying pursuit, researchers need to hone their skills in searching online catalogs for books housed here at UNH, held by institutions belonging to the Boston Library Consortium, as well as by libraries world-wide. And no amount of physical browsing will uncover the ever increasing number of monographs and periodicals coming out in digital format. The online catalog or similar discovery tools are the key to finding e-books and online periodicals, as well as print volumes.
Watch this short video to learn how to read a Library of Congress Classification call number so you can find books in the stacks.
Do you want something that UNH doesn't own? Borrow items from other libraries--we do all the leg work!
Interlibrary Loan
This also works for getting scans of book chapters and print journal articles that UNH does own, which is a service called Document Delivery.
