This page of our library guide contains the handout and book search information from the Bartlam Library tour. The handout is also available as a downloadable document below.
Use iDiscover to find books, ebooks, and journal articles from all Cambridge libraries: https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/
For this task, you’ll be searching iDiscover for a book in Selwyn Library, then finding it on the shelf.
Your search results may include ebooks. You can click straight through to read these when you are on any Cambridge network and log in to read them wherever you are.
You can limit or filter results to one library or search all libraries.
You don’t need to type in the full reference for each book. We’ve included suggested keywords to guide you to a successful shortcut. If you’re looking for a specific edition, it can help to add in the year of publication or other details specific to that edition.
As an example search, we’ll look for The study skills handbook by Stella Cottrell. This is a book in our Academic Skills & Welfare collection that is also available as an ebook. It is available in several editions, the newest one being the 6th edition published in 2024.
From the results screen, click through to the full record to find the shelfmark for the Selwyn copy and to check that it is currently available to be borrowed.
Architecture
Design
Designing for the climate emergency : a guide for architecture students / Sofie Pelsmakers, Elizabeth Donovan, Aidan Hoggard, Urszula Kozminska (London: RIBA, 2022)
Keywords: designing climate emergency
Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology
Medicine
Natural Sciences (Biological)
Molecular biology of the cell / Bruce Alberts, 7th ed. (New York: Norton, 2022)
Keywords: cell alberts 2022
Engineering
Natural Sciences (Physical)
Mathematical methods for physics and engineering / K.F. Riley, M.P. Hobson and S.J. Bence (Cambridge: CUP, 2006)
Keywords: methods physics riley
English
History
History & Politics
HSPS
The Cambridge companion to Renaissance humanism / edited by Jill Kraye (Cambridge: CUP, 1996)
Keywords: companion kraye
Architecture
Cities & people : a social and architectural history / Mark Girouard
Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology
Why chemical reactions happen / James Keeler and Peter Wothers
Design
Form and Forces: Designing Efficient, Elegant Structures / Ed Allen and Waclaw Zalewski
English
Decolonising the mind : the politics of language in African literature / Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
History
Trickster travels : a sixteenth-century Muslim between worlds / Natalie Zemon Davis
History & Politics
Writing history : theory and practice / edited by Stefan Berger, Heiko Feldner and Kevin Passmore
HSPS
Sociology / Anthony Giddens and Philip W. Sutton
Medicine
Instant anatomy / Robert H. Whitaker, Neil R. Borley
Natural Sciences (Biological)
The art of statistics : learning from data / David Spiegelhalter
Natural Sciences (Physical)
Chemical structure and reactivity : an integrated approach / James Keeler and Peter Wothers