 Hi, this is Sherry Sains, Reference Librarian at Alden Library. This video is going to show us how to find a book if we know the author by using the Alice catalog. If you need to find a book by author, you would want to use the catalog. From here you can change the search to author and type in last name first. So let's say I'm looking for author Suzanne Collins, who wrote Hunger Games. I search last name, comma, first name, and I get two different Suzanne Collins's. This has a lot more books under her name, so I'm going to guess it's this one, and indeed this is the right one. So I can open this title, get my call number, go to the shelf, get my book. Sometimes you don't have the whole author's name. Sometimes you need to do a little bit of detective work. It helps then to use the advanced search, and I can go to author. Let's say I didn't know her first name, but I remembered one of the words in the title of the book. So I could do this combined author title and come up with the whole series of the Hunger Games books. There, that was really easy wasn't it? If you need help with this or any other question trying to find things in the library, give us a call, chat with us, drop us an email. We're always glad to help.