Guides: Subject Guide ~ Literature and Creative Writing: Books

Books at Hamilton

America's Historical Imprints

Full image reproductions of virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in the U.S. over a 170-year period. Items include advertisements, almanacs, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, laws, maps, novels, operas, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, treaties and more.
British Literary Manuscripts Online: Medieval and Renaissance
565,000 pages of rare manuscripts from the Medieval and Early Modern periods including letters, poems, stories, plays, chronicles, religious writings and commonplace books. These works of 1,000 authors were selected from the collections of the British Library, National Library of Scotland, Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. Coverage: 1120-1660.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Digital reproductions of all items produced by a printing press (such as books, pamphlets, broadsides) in England and its colonies and any item that was printed anywhere in the world in English. Coverage: 1473-1700.

Wright American Fiction
Full text of more than 2,800 novels, novelettes, romances, short stories, tall tales, tract-like tales, allegories, and fictitious biographies and travels from 1774 through 1900.

Interlibrary loan requests can be made using:

Hamilton Library Catalog - Use the "Books at Other Libraries" filter to search for and request books using the WorldCat.org database
WorldCat (FirstSearch) - Use the "Find It" icon to self-populate our interlibrary loan form
ILLiad - The interlibrary loan department's fill-in form

Select the thumbnail for a screencast keyed to instructions.

Borrowing from another library using the library catalog is just as fast as using WorldCat's FirstSearch interface or the ILLiad fill-in form.

Sign in to your library account.
Perform a search and limit it to "Books at Other Libraries."
View the full record for an item you want.
Select the "Request from Interlibrary Loan" link if Hamilton does not provide access to the item (see below).
Log on to ILLiad to view the pre-populated request form.
Click "Submit Request" at the bottom of the form.