Print books and eBooks are a vital sources of historical scholarship. To find books at the Gordon Library, type your keywords into Summon, and then use the Books/eBooks filter on the left to limit your search results to just books.
How can you tell if the author of a book is a historian?
Try searching for the author name on Google. For example, a quick search on Google reveals that John S. Haller (the author of Battlefield Medicine : A History of the Military Ambulance from the Napoleonic Wars through World War I) is Emeritus Professor in Department of History at Souther Illinois University and holds degrees from from Georgetown University (BA), John Carroll University (MA), and the University of Maryland (PhD).
Sample books by historians:
America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation by 
Battlefield Medicine: A History of the Military Ambulance from the Napoleonic Wars through World War I by 
A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era by 
Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy by 
The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction by 
Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague between 1894 and 1901 by The Gordon Library categorizes/organizes books using the LC (Library of Congress) Classification System. Letters and numbers denote subject and location in the collection.
The first two lines describe the subject of the book.
The third line represents the author's last name.
The last line represents the date of publication.
At Gordon Library, call numbers A-N are located on the 3rd floor, and call numbers P-Z are located on the 1st floor. (Please note that the main entrance to the library is on the 2nd floor.)
Our Interlibrary Loan service allows WPI students and faculty to request items from other libraries free of charge.
The Academic and Research Collaborative (ARC), allows member users to borrow directly from Worcester area libraries. Before you can borrow materials directly from participating libraries, you need to sign up for an ARC card in person at the Gordon Library's Information Desk. Pick up your ARC card today!