You may be too young to remember, but library catalogs used to be "card catalogs" with a card for each item in the library.

Then...

Now...

Library catalogs are primarily used for identifying and locating books (print or electronic) and other materials in a particular library’s collection.

ODU's library catalog provides access to books, videos, microforms, government publications (since 1990), and most journals (but not journal articles!).

You need to use databases to identify the articles within the journals.

ODU's journal titles are also searchable from the "Find Journals & Newspapers" option on the ODU Libraries Web site. This is the better option because it will list all electronic journals as well as print.

It is important to remember that neither the library catalog nor the "Find Journals & Newspapers" page includes article titles, only the JOURNAL TITLES.