In general, visitors may use the collections within the ULS but cannot borrow materials for use at home without a Special Borrower's Card. Additionally, access to Pitt’s licensed electronic resources is available. Visitors from the community and visiting researchers may ask for a temporary guest password at the Donald S. Wood Service Desk in Hillman Library. Photo ID is required.
More information about services for visitors can be accessed on the Services For the Non-Pitt Community page.
PittCat is the main searching tool for all of the materials owned by the University Library System (ULS), including articles, books, ebooks, journal articles, ejournals, audio and video, digital images, government documents, microfilm and movies.
All books in PittCat are labeled with Subjects to help users quickly find related titles.
Subjects describe the main topics covered in a book, as shown by the headings in the red box. All subjects are linked to other materials on that same topic. Simply clicking on a subject will do a search and retrieve other materials on that topic. Subjects can also suggest alternative search terms.
PittCat allows browsing for print books by call numbers. To begin, go to the PittCat Browse and select "Browse by Library of Congress call numbers." Below, you can see the results for HV 6430. You can see suggested call numbers in the box to the left entitled Call Ranges for Conflict Resolution Books. Note: ebooks are not included in the call number search, as they are not cataloged with call numbers.