--- title: "Search for your textbook in the Library catalogue" canonical: "https://helpcentre.macewan.ca/space/LSD/818216988/Search%20for%20your%20textbook%20in%20the%20Library%20catalogue" format: markdown --- **AUDIENCE:  ****STUDENTS**** | ****STAFF** You can search for your textbook using the Library catalogue general search box or by using the curated Textbook Collection. To find your textbook, do the following:  1. Visit the Library [homepage](https://library.macewan.ca/). 2. From the catalogue search box, enter the full title of the textbook and put it in double quotation marks. Or you can search using the title along with the author’s last name; if there is more than one author, just use the first author’s last name. 3. Hit the **Enter **key or the **Search **button. 4. You can also search by clicking on the “Textbooks” icon in the “Popular Pages” section and then click on the [Library's Textbook Collection](https://macewan.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/nde/collectionDiscovery?collectionId=81307863520008936&vid=01MACEWAN_INST:NDE&lang=en) link. You can then browse or search the Library’s curated collection of textbooks. 5. From the search results, click on the brief record of item in the search results to get the full record for your textbook item. 6. From the full record of the textbook, you can see if that item is available for loan from the Library Services Desk. Provide the call number to Library Services Desk staff, and they will retrieve the textbook for you and sign it out. 7. The loan period for textbooks is 4 hours, and the fine is $1 per hour. > 📝 The Library has many textbooks in the collection that are used in MacEwan University courses. Many of these textbooks are in the Library’s Textbook Collection and are flagged with an item status of “MacEwan University Library Textbooks”, and other, usually older, textbooks are in the Library’s general stacks collection upstairs on the third floor. ## Related articles - [https://macewan.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LSD/pages/816316552](https://macewan.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LSD/pages/816316552) - [https://macewan.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LSD/pages/815464524](https://macewan.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LSD/pages/815464524) > Macro (details) > > ## Related Keywords > > > > > > | Related Issues | catalog | > | --- | --- |