Searching Lens  

Lens is the Library's alternative catalog. Lens provides keyword searching and relevancy ranking, as well as enhanced content not available the Library Catalog, such as:

• Table of contents
• Cover Art
• Summaries and reviews
• Links to Google Book Search, if the full or partial ebook is available.
• Links to Hathi Trust ebooks, when available.

Search Lens to find items in the Library's collections, ebooks, images, and more.

Lens searches:

• Library Catalog Records
  Search for Including books, journals, music scores, recordings, and more.
• Archives and Manuscripts Finding Aids
  Search the contents of the Library's archives and manuscript collections in the Special Collections Research Center.
• Images
  Includes images from American Environmental Photographs Collection, the Archival Photographic Files, and The First American West.
• The Library Website
  You can also search the Library website through Lens.
• Hathi Trust Books 
  Lens includes items available from the Hathi Trust that are not available in print at the Library.

Lens does not:

• Search for Articles
  Use a Library database to search for articles.  If you have a citation to a specific article, search for the name of the journal.
• Search by Non-Roman Characters
  For now, use the Library Catalog.
• Search by Call Number
  Use the Library Catalog to search by call number.
• Conduct Alphabetical/Browse Searches
  You cannot browse by title, author, subject heading, etc. Use the Library Catalog.
• Search for Phrases
  Using quotation marks in Lens does NOT search for phrases. It stops stemming (looking for variants of words).