What is OneSearch?
OneSearch is our online public access catalog (OPAC). It is the best place to search for our holdings of library materials, both print and electronic, and to find and access journal articles, images, databases, and all types of library publications.
You can start by searching for an author, title or subject or by entering keywords. You can then narrow down your results by clicking on one of the choices listed on the left side of the results screen. Log in with your Adelphi username and password to access OneSearch, to renew books, to save records to a permanent list, or to access full OneSearch results from off campus.
Although OneSearch is the most comprehensive single search tool for Adelphi’s library resources, you might also want to search one or more of our individual online research databases, including WorldCat (which includes more than one billion titles in all formats). Many of these databases can provide a more focused search and not all of the search strategies specific to each database can be used in OneSearch.
Call Numbers for African, Black & Caribbean Studies
Materials at the Adelphi University Libraries (except for electronic resources) are given Call Numbers, based on the Library of Congress Classification System. Library of Congress Classification Systems organizes materials by Subject. The below list is shows how African, Black & Caribbean materials are organized. This is useful in browsing, whether by looking at the physical stacks themselves, or bibliographic records in OneSearch.
African American Religion BR563
African American History E184.5-185.98
Slavery, Anti-Slavery Movement E441-453
Race HT1501-1595
African History DT1-DT3415
West Indies F1601-F2191
Library of Congress Subject Headings for African, Black & Caribbean Studies
At the Adelphi University Libraries, materials are assigned Library of Congress Subject Headings based on their content. When you view a OneSearch record, these subject headings will display as active links pointing to other materials with the same subject headings.
Here is a list of sample subject headings, although in no way exhaustive, used in finding materials about African, Black & Caribbean Studies. Clicking on these links will take you to a OneSearch query according to that particular subject heading.
African American Civil Rights History
African Americans in Popular Culture
African Americans Intellectual Life
African Americans Race Identity
African Americans Social Conditions