How do you search for items in the catalog? Most library catalogs allow you to search by author, title, or subject. Some require you to use special commands to enter terms in a specific way.

• Author: search last name first
  If looking for books by Vinton Cerf
  Search: cerf, vinton
• Title: drop the first article (a, an, the)
  If looking for the book: The Complete Internet User's Guide
  Search: Complete Internet User's Guide
• Subject: use subject headings
  If looking for books about: the history of the Internet
  Search: Internet (Computer network) -- History

After you gather a list of citations from an electronic index, check to see if the library owns that magazine or newspaper of journal by searching for the title of the periodical in the library catalog