Quick Search can help you find our physical and digital materials.

By default, Quick Search will search by keyword

  • physical materials
  • e-books and digital articles
  • some Digital Collections images and files

Focus your search

If you already know what format, author, subject, or date range you want, try Advanced Search.

You can also search within specific types of collections including

If your search returns too many results, you can narrow your search using filters, located next to your search results. Learn more about search techniques.

Search beyond ISU

You can choose to include the physical materials from 8 additional Iowa college and university libraries. Select “FastTRAC Libraries.” Many of these items are loanable, and often arrive faster than when you use interlibrary loan.

If we don’t have access to a book, article or other item, you can request it through interlibrary loan. After you set up an interlibrary loan account, you can use WorldCat to search for and automatically fill the request form for your item. Using advanced search, select “WorldCat” to search global libraries. 

Still looking for materials?

We have a few other search tools you can try for specific formats.

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