LibGuides: Computer Science: Books


Library Research Guides

Looking for inspiration?

The word cloud above is a visualization of the most common topics covered in computer science books checked out of our library! Use the other boxes on this page to search for and find books in our collection.

Books that deal primarily with computer science have call numbers beginning with QA. These can be found on level 6, in the North (Miles-Smith) stacks as of Spring 2020.

Have a look at the box on this page titled "Reading call numbers" for more about how to decode a call number and find a book in the library!

Discover - search for books at MHC and Five College libraries

Discover allows you to search the physical and electronic books held by Mount Holyoke's and all of the Five College libraries.

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A combined database made up of many individual resources including the library catalog and the majority of our subject-specific databases. Use the Refine Results > Source Types options Books and eBooks to limit your results to books. Use Limit To > Five Colleges Library Catalog Only to limit your results to items held in the Five College Libraries.
Search the library catalog only (enter search terms and then limit) or dozens of databases together. A great place to start your research on almost any topic.