Electronic Resources

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Stop by or call the Reference Desk during open hours.

telephone: 212.353.4186
e-mail: reference@cooper.edu

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SEARCHING THE CATALOG 

• Enter a term to begin your search. The search engine is NOT case-sensitive and ignores punctuation.
  • Term(s) can be a word or a phrase used to describe a thing or concepts
• The default search is a Simple Search and will generate all resources that include the term(s) in any field.
  • Fields are title, author/creator, subject, publisher, call number, ISBN.
• Refine your search using Advance Search and utilize the search filters. 
  • Select which field you'd like the search term to be found.
  • Define rules for the search. These rules will only display results that follow the selected command
    • Contains
    • is (exact)
    • starts with
  • Use "quotation marks" around certain phrases to search for an exact phrase

EXPLORING YOUR SEARCH RESULTS

• By default, the results are sorted by relevance. 
• Utilize Tweak my results to filter within results:
  • Library: Cooper Union, NYU, New School, New York Historical Society, and New York School of Interior Design to name a few.
  • Resource Type: Books, Video Journals Archival Materials, Audio, Databases, Scores, and much more!
  • Subjects: Art, Architecture, Business, Philosophy, Globalization, Social Justice, and Literary Criticism are a few examples. 
  • Publication Date: This can be changed to date-newest or date-oldest. 
  • Languages.
  • Call Number Group: Library of Congress Classification Codes 

Feel free to email me about studio visits and any reference questions!