To find books at UNC Asheville, Appalachian State University or Western Carolina University, start with our catalog.
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Materials not held within our network can be requested through Interlibrary Loan.
Children's books are located on the library lower floor. The collection includes winners and honor titles from all major awards. Call numbers for the collection have the prefix JUV. Search the library catalog by author or title to identify specific books.
Broad subject headings include:
Children’s literature
Young adult literature
Children’s poetry
You may focus your search by selecting those displayed on the catalog with the broad heading.
For example:
Children's literature -- collected works
Children's literature -- history and criticism
Young adult literature -- bibliography
Young adult literature -- history and criticismThe subdivision, juvenile literature, may be used to identify children’s and young adult titles in many subject disciplines.
Art -- juvenile literature
Science -- juvenile literature
Individual authors may be searched as subjects simply by entering the name in a subject search.
Potter, Beatrix
Hamilton, Virginia -- criticism and interpretation
Keyword searches identify terms in the subject, title, and content description fields of a catalog record. Simply enter one or more distinctive words describing your topic and the catalog will retrieve and display titles in which all of these words appear in the catalog record.
juvenile AND mountain AND folklore
cats AND dogs AND juvenileYou may also enter search terms and focus your search by selecting the "Modify Search" tab and limiting results to "UNCA Juvenile Lit"