Pegasus Help 

Pegasus is an on-line database of the Loyola Univeristy Library holdings.  It is contected to databases which contain circulation and acquistions information to provide as complete a picture as possible of what is available through the library to our patrons.  The holdings in the catalog include the Cudahy, Health Sciences, Law, Lewis and Rome Center collections. 

• Materials in the phyical collections of the libraries, including books (monographes, monographic series, etc)
• Journals and periodicals: bound volumes or loose issues of titles to which the library subscribes.
• Audiovisual (DVD's CD's, videorecordings, etc)
• Cudahy Library Collections
• Curriculum Collection (Lewis Library)
• E-Books and E-Journals*
• Health Sciences Library Collections
• Information Commons
• Law Library Collections
• Lewis LibraryCollections
• Library Storage Facility
• Loyola University Museum of Art Library (a non-circulating collection)
• Loyola Theses and Dissertations*
• U. S. and Illinois government publications*
• University Archives Collections*
• Women and Leadership Archives Collections*

* collections or material types have substancial parts of their collections not included in the Pegasus catalog.  Please contact the department or a Reference Libraian for more information.

• When searching for a title, do not type in the initial articles (a, an, the, der, la, los...): great gatsby  as apposed to the great gatsby
• In all searches if you are entering a phrase use quotes to keep the words together, like: "world wide web"
• Use ? to truncate, for example: biograph? for biography OR biographical OR biographies.
• For personal names, enter the last name first.
• For names of organizations, enter the name as you know it.

Use the Basic Search for "known item" searches, for example:  If you know an author or title and want to see if we have it.

Use the Advanced search for topic or complicated searches, for example:  when you need audiovisual copies of Shakespeare plays.

if you are a patron of the Law or Health Sciences Libraries please use the following links for assistance:

• Law Library Assistance
• Health Sciences Library Assistance