Purdue University Libraries Catalog
Broadly, an online catalog allows a customer to search for product or inventory that is available in the physical store. Functioning similar to a retail store's online catalog, the Libraries catalog searches items (inventory/product) that are physically on campus and for subscriptions to periodicals 
. The types of resources you are searching for are:
- books
- periodical titles (includes journals, magazines, and newspapers)
- government publications
- audio-visual (media) materials
- conference proceedings
- technical reports
- Purdue theses
In this section you will learn about the:
- different search tabs of the interface
- basics of applying limits or filters
- parts or fields of an individual record
- location, call number, and status of an item
- printing, saving, and emailing options
For instructions on specific types of searching with in the catalog, visit our Library Catalog research guide.