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BruKnow: The Brown Library Catalog

This guide will give you an introduction to BruKnow and answer some common questions about the system.

Searching by Title

If you are looking for a specific title and find yourself getting lots of results for book reviews and other extraneous hits, the best thing to do is to change your type of search from the default Everything to Library Catalog.

 

Text for BruKnow search: This Alien Shore: Library Catalog

 

If the search returns no hits, we probably don't have the book in our collection. Try doing the search again, this time searching Everything. Once again, the book will not appear, but this time, you'll see an  Expand My Results button. Click on this.

BruKnow text: This Alien Shore: Everything search

 

There's a good chance a book record will now appear (however, this will not happen for every title). Its status will be No Online Access.

BruKnow Text: Expand My Search

 

Click on the title to open the record and you'll see a link to request the book through Interlibrary Loan.

BruKnow Text: EasyBorrow