The library catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges.

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A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.

The books and articles you need for your research may not be available within the Tri-colleges. We have two systems available to help you retrieve the materials you need. See this page to place your requests.

Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and conference papers in the fields of sociology, social work and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Records added after 1972 contain in-depth abstracts of journal articles. Covers 1963-present.

Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.

Offers full-text articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. In English and Spanish, it offers additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. Covers 1990-present.

Full-text of thousands of newspapers, magazines, news transcripts, reference works, and legal materials. Includes NY Times (1980-current)

Newspaper collections from NewsBank provide full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for more than 700 newspapers around the globe, including the NY Times (2000-present). Database covers 1977-present.

A compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries from 1986 to the present. All the surveys reported were conducted using scientifically selected random samples. Covers 1986-present.

Provides access to data from nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys, 1935 to present. Users can search the "iPOLL Databank" which is organized at the question level, or search at the dataset level using "RoperExpress" which allows immediate download of about 75% of the Center's public opinion studies conducted in the US from 1935 to present, and many recent studies from outside of the US.

Electronic library containing the Associated Press's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library.

Offers abstracts of journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations and exhibition and dealer's catalogs. Includes European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Covers 1973-present.

Search tip: enter "representation" as one of your search terms. Enter your own term (e.g., Chinese or Japanese) in the second row.  The results will be articles from art journals, some of which will analyze artworks or photographs depicting some aspect of the topic you've searched.

This site has links to the Greater Philadelphia chapter.