more about the catalog

The Catalog is not just a search tool; it's a tool for doing research, investigating topics, answering questions, uncovering facts, and delving at length into numerous aspects of the arts. It contains automated features that make it easy to find just the citations that are most likely to match your special interests.

You search the list of citations in the Catalog by looking for citations that match a text string you supply. The text string describes some aspect of a holding that might be of interest to you.

• If a matching citation is another web site or if it is located at another web site, you access it over the Internet directly from the Shelf without leaving Electricka's web site.
• If a matching citation is not a web site—for example, a person, place, or organization—the matching citation describes the holding, explains what and where it is and how to find it. Once you have this information, you are free to acquire, contact, or travel to the resource to use it.

The citations in the Catalog are themselves a body of arts-related information that you can search and explore with the help of the the Shelf's automated facilities; they are an enjoyable, easy-to-use, thought-provoking arts resource in their own right.