This search box appears at the top of the Library homepage. It allows you to find all types of material available through the BVU Library, including the following:
In the BVU Catalog, it usually works best to begin with a simple search. You can then narrow your search from the results page, using the options that will be presented in the left column of that page.
If you're looking for a specific item, you can do a simple search by entering the book title or the author into the search box.
If you need a book on your topic, but aren't aware of a specific book, you can enter a subject search term or phrase in quotation marks. Example: "bilingual education"
Note that if you do a simple search you may get many results and will need to look through many results for the right item.
From the search results page, you can limit your results by format, publication date and language.
If BVU doesn't have material available on your topic, you can switch your results to "Libraries Worldwide" to see what other options exist outside of our library. We have a service called Interlibrary Loan that can obtain those items for you at no charge.
Advanced Search
For more precise searching, use the Advanced Search. Click "Advanced Search" to the right of the search box. You can then limit your search terms to specified fields, like Title or Author or Subject.
To decide which item/s are relevant to you, view information on the results page. It includes basic information like the item's title, author, publication date, and availability. Click on a book title to see the full record and more details about the book (e.g., full summary, relevant subjects, chapter titles where available).
Options to obtain the book are available to you in the box on the right side of the screen. If you are an online student, place the book "On Hold" and we will mail the book to your home. When it is fiscally possible, we will provide a self-addressed postage-paid padded mailer for you to return the material to the BVU Library.
At the bottom of this screen, you can "browse the shelf" to see if there are other books of interest to you.
You can find our ebook collection using the search box at the top of the Library home page.
Narrow your search to ONLY by ebooks by clicking this two settings in the left column of your search results page. 
Click any book title to get a more complete description of the title.
Click the "View eBook" button to go the content of the ebook.
Best bet: Ignore the "download" option and either email or save the sections of the book you need. Ebooks have limits to the amount of content you can save or email. If you exceed the page limit clear your cache and search for the ebook again to refresh your page limit.
We are happy to lend off-campus students and faculty books from our collection. Use the search box at the top of Library web page to see what is available to you.
Note that this book has a checkmark and a status of "Available" in the BVU Library Main Collection.
Click on the title of the book to go to the full description.
At the full description screen you'll see the Access Options in a box in the upper right corner. Click "Place Hold" to let us know you want to use this book. If you are on Online student, you'll have the option to have the book sent to your home or you can pick it up at the BVU Library. Please allow one week for home delivery.
Please note: When it is fiscally possible, we will send you a self-addressed, postage paid padded mailer so that you can easily the item/s to us at the end of the term. Please keep track of this package!
