gender and women's studies

all books (print or ebook), can be found by searching omni, the library’s search tool.  a complete search guide for using omni is available here.  

enter your search words in the main search box.  you can put quotation marks around a phrase. results are displayed using a relevancy ranking, but you can change this to display your results by newest date first.   change the “sort by” option to “date - newest” 

to limit your search results you can use the limiters on the left side of your search results screen. 

a few tips to filter your results: 

• to limit your search to online content or ebooks, under “availability” select the “available online” filter. 
• you can limit these results further by selecting a “resource type”. for example if you are interested in an ebook, you can select the “books and ebooks” filter. 
• to find print books available in a specific physical location you can select the specific library under the “library locations” filter

locations are listed below each title and in alphabetical order - if there are multiple locations you should click on the location line to display additional locations: 

additional locations will be listed on the next screen: 

physical items can be requested from lakehead libraries through the library's request service. .

you can find books using information from the title, author name or subject keywords:

• enter one word or multiple words from title (put quotation marks to enclose phrases; use * for alternate word endings)
• for author, enter last name followed by first name or initial
• use "advanced search" for combining search words and for searching with specific information (ie title, author, subject, isbn etc)