Books - HP 200 - Historic preservation - Research Guides at Southeast Missouri State University

Catalogs

Kent library catalog -- 450,000 print items and 250,000+ ebooks

Try the keyword search s:cape girardeau -- this finds books with Cape Girardeau in the subject heading, and returns several books on city/regional history, some of which are available as ebooks

MOBIUS catalog -- over 23 million items, available in usually 3-5 days

WorldCat This link opens in a new window
lots of millions of items from libraries across the country -- available via interlibrary loan in roughly 2 weeks.

hint: Kent library won't borrow books from elsewhere that are already here, so a recommended path to take in seeking a book is
search Kent Library Catalog > then check MOBIUS > then check WorldCat

More book tools

Other tools for finding books include:

Internet Archive - This is good place to find public domain (i.e. free) books and a wide variety of other types of sources including audio, video, images and more. An example of unique content is Librivox, a collection of free audiobooks.
Google books - a vast archive of scanned books both in and out of copyright.
- for most of the copyrighted material, full text of the book will not be available.
- however, it lets you search inside books, to find books that contain specific words or phrases.
  - So for example, if you remember reading a story about Nazis building robot dinosaurs to conquer the earth, but can't remember the title, this resource may help you dig up the book.