Search the Catalog for Books and More
Our catalog includes all holdings owned by the library, including:
- Physical library books
- E-books
- Blu-ray, DVD, and other video
- CDs and other audio
Search UH Libraries catalogs
Search each library catalog directly:
Search all UH System catalogs at once
By default, our search engine searches the 3 largest UH system universities: UH, UH-Clear Lake, and UH-Downtown.
- Use library search with keywords, titles, author names, and more
- A list of search results will load
- Locate and select the Everything drop-down
- Select “Library Catalog” from the options
- Select the magnifying glass to search again
- A list of only catalog results will load
- These results are for the catalogs of UH, UH-Clear Lake, and UH-Downtown
How to filter these 3 universities separately
Search for physical books
Catalogs usually include non-book items, like DVDs or CDs
To limit your results to just books:
- Use library search library search with keywords, titles, author names, and more
- A list of search results will load
- Locate the Resource Type filter to the left of the results
- If there are physical books in your search results, “Books” will appear as an option within that filter. Select “Books”
- Your results will filter to only include books
Follow these same steps to filter to any other resource type (e-books, dissertations, videos, etc.).