Find a Book Using SCOUT

Learning Outcomes

• Enter the book's title into the SCOUT search bar
• Examine your results to see if USMA library owns the book and whether or not it is on the shelf and available for checkout

Find a Specific Book in SCOUT

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This is an interactive tutorial. Click the button on the top right to find interactive elements. If the tutorial instructs you to click an element, please do!

This is the landing page for USMA Library. From the top search bar, you can type keywords directly into the Search SCOUT bar to search for resources.

Press enter on your keyboard to begin a search

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This is the results page. Look through your results to find the book you searched on.

The second result returned the correct book. Please note the label book directly above the book's title. This might say article, video, or several other different labels. Check to make sure the resource type is what you are looking for.

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The SCOUT record will have information about whether or not the book is available and where it can be found on the shelf.

Underneath the title, author, and published date, you will be able to see the book's status. It will either be Available (usually in green text), Not Available (usually gray text) or Check for available services (usually in gray text).

The number next to the book's availability status is the call number. This is the number that indicates the place on the shelf where the library book will be.

If your library book is available, please write down or take a photo or screenshot of the call number. You will use this to go up into the library stacks (the shelves of books on the 3rd-5th floors) and locate your book using the call number.

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Books that are not in the library

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