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Badger Cat - New Search Tool

Use this fast search tool to find books, videos and more in the UW System, other Wisconsin college & public libraries and worldwide.

BadgerCat allows you to do fast searching, and it displays results in an easy to understand way.

If you search on a title phrase such as "pride and prejudice" there are easy tabs at the top that help you separate books, videos, and other resources. Things that we own at UW Oshkosh are highlighted:

If something is owned by a UW System library, you can do a Universal Borrowing request for it:

• Click on Libraries That Own the Item, then click the library's name and then initiate a request from within their catalog.
• You will typically click a button near the top of the screen that says "Request an Item", or "Place Requests" or similar language.
• You'll need to use your TitanCard UW Oshkosh log-in information, and then follow onscreen instructions.

If you choose to search for items outside the UW System, or in a private school, public library, etc., there is a link on the screen that says "Place an ILL Request". Click this and log-in with your TitanCard, and click Submit Request. You'll only want to do ILL requests for things NOT in the UW System. For UW System items, Universal Borrowing is much faster to use.

You can use the "Search In:" drop-down menu to choose where you want to search: UW System, Wisconsin Public Libraries, Libraries Worldwide, etc.

Try it and see what you think! Go to BadgerCat!

You will be able to find permanent links to BadgerCat on the Other Libraries page and on the drop-down menu on the main page that says "List of Library Search Tools". Just click the drop-down menu and BadgerCat is on the list alphabetically.