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Catalog USMAI

Catalog USMAI is the online library catalog of the libraries of the USMAI institutions.  The Catalog contains records of items available in the USMAI libraries, including books, journals, government documents, maps, videos, and more.

WorldCat: Bowie State University Library 

A discovery tool with over 963 million items such as both print and electronic books and articles locally and globally.  You can search and retrieve our holdings and other USMAI libraries' materials.  You can access WorldCat Local on the Thurgood Marshall Library website.  Ask a Librarian! (Instruction for Basics of WorldCat BSU)

Research Port

With Research Port, we can search electronically for articles and e-journals: access to databases for scholarly articles, citations, newspapers, encyclopedias, dictionaries. Full text journals are also available.

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Make sure you can access all the resources and privileges of the Thurgood Marshall Library by registering your BowieCard for the current academic year beginning Sept. 1.  Registration or renewals is required for all faculty, staff and students and allows borrowing privileges at BSU and all other libraries within the University System of Maryland and affiliated institutions; remote and local access to the ResearchPort, as well as, access to ILLiad (interlibrary loan privileges)

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