You can search the contents of all reference books in NCSU Libraries? Really?

O.K., not exactly. The search box on the Reference Tools page and below searches the ReferenceUniverse database. The contents of ReferenceUniverse and our collection of reference books are not an exact match. We have some books not in ReferenceUniverse, and vice versa. But this database does let you search through thousands of the subject encyclopedias and other reference books we have access to online and on the shelves in the Learning Commons at D.H. Hill Library, in the bookstacks of D.H. Hill, and the other libraries at NCSU.

In the past, figuring out which reference books might help you find information on your topic has been tricky, even for librarians. We are happy to provide access to ReferenceUniverse to make that task much easier.