Search the Library Catalog to find books, eBooks, and periodicals. You can search by keyword ("everything"), author, title, or subject heading. The results list will give you basic information about each item, including availability. To find out more, click on Details.
Three links provide different kinds of information:
Books that are available to be checked out are located in the stacks (the bookshelves in the Quiet Study Area). Ask a librarian to point you in the right direction.
Human Rights in Our Own Backyard: Injustice and Resistance in the United States by 
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by 
Ethical Chic: The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love by A keyword search will find a word anywehre in a record: the title, author, table of contents, subject headings, etc. (the equivalent of searching "everything" in the library catalog). For example, if you search for slavery and united states, you'll retrieve results in which all of these words appear anywhere in the record at least once.
To find ALL your search terms, connect them with the word AND:
sweatshops and nike
To find synonyms, connect the synonyms with the word OR:
children or youth
To find variations of a word in the library catalog, add a dollar sign to the word stem:
slave$
(This is called truncation and will retrieve any books with the words slave, slaves, slavery, slaveholder, etc.)
The Foothill Library has over 12,000 eBooks available for you to use. Go to EBSCOhost eBooks to access Foothill's eBook collection or search the Library Catalog to find eBooks on your topic. The Library Catalog will list all the books the library owns, but you can limit your results to eBooks.
When you find an eBook in the library catalog, click on the 
icon to open the eBook.
For off-campus access to the online databases and eBooks, you'll need your student ID number and portal password. Make sure you are accessing the databases directly from the library website.