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Begin Research: Understand Your Catalog Search Results

Understand Your Catalog Search Results

To locate books in the library, there are three important things you need to know: location, call number, and status. Items with the status Check Shelf are not checked out. We can't guarantee that they are on the shelf, as someone else may be using the item in the library.

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