HIS 390: Gardner

Searching with Subject Headers

Discovery search uses Library of Congress subject headings to organize and describe books and articles. To search using a subject heading, follow these steps:

• Make sure to use the Advanced Search option
• Click on the first line where it says "Any Field" and change it to "Subject"
• Then click on the box to the right that says "contains" and change it to "is (exact)"
• Finally, put in the subject heading you want to search in the box and click "SEARCH"

Example Subject Headings

Bookmaking and Bookbinding

• Bookbinding
• Bookbinding -- History
• Papermaking
• Papermaking -- History
• Watermarks

Bookselling and Publishing

• Antiquarian booksellers
• Book collecting
• Book industries and trade
• Book industries and trade -- United States -- History
• Booksellers and bookselling
• Booksellers and bookselling -- United States
• Booksellers' catalogs
• Printers and publishing -- United States -- History
• Publishers and publishing
• Rare books
• Rare books -- Catalogs
• Rare books -- Periodicals
• Private press books
• Private presses
• Private presses -- History

Printing

• Printers
• Printers -- United States -- Biography
• Printing -- History
• Printing -- United States -- History
• Printing machinery and supplies
• Printing presses
• Printing presses -- History

Typography and Graphic Design

• Advertising layout and typography
• Alphabets
• Book design
• Book design -- History
• Calligraphy
• Graphic design (Typography)
• Layout (Printing)
• Printing -- Specimens
• Type and type-founding
• Type and type-founding -- History
• Type designers
• Typesetting