Six volumes (1200+ entries) encapsulate a diverse array of topics to offer a comprehensive and useful summary of the state of geography in the early 21st century. The encyclopedia:
Provides succinct summaries of trends such as globalization, environmental destruction, new geospatial technologies, and cyberspace
Decomposes geography into the six broad subject areas: physical geography; human geography; nature and society; methods, models, and GIS; history of geography; and geographer biographies, geographic organizations, and important social movements
multiple words anywhere in the catalog record (fisheries Alaska)
phrases ("Alaskan fisheries")
word stems where you might want to search a variety of words at once (fisher* -- which will result in records that contain fisheries, fishery, fisherman, but not fishing, fishes or fish)
Other features are available such as limiting by year published, media type, etc.
Look closely at the item records for the results you are getting. Be sure to look at the subject headings.
Subject heading searches
You may find this feature useful once you have explored your topic and have found how your topic is described by others. This will help you navigate the catalogs a little easier. For example, in one of the records for my searches on Alaskan fisheries, I found these subject headings
If I click on these headings from the catalog record, I may (or may not) find additional titles described in the same way.
Repeating your search in Summit
Once you have done a search in the OSU Libraries catalog you can click "Try Summit Libraries" to see if any regional libraries have additional titles that meet the search criteria.
Browsing for books
Most of the Valley Library's geography collection is located on the 6th floor. However, many related topics - including land use and area studies - will be located in other areas.
Maps and many atlases are located on the 3rd floor.
Bold = geography call numbers; normal font = related subject call numbers:
