We all now have a powerful new tool: Google Book Search working in tandem with the CLICnet library catalog. Google Book lets you search the actual content of several million books. The CLICnet library catalog shows readily available titles; it also shows subjects to direct you to other relevant books.
CLICnet to Google Books
Find a book on topic in CLICnet, then use Google Book Search to see if it has been digitized and, if so, then much of the text may be viewable (Limited Preview feature offers a generous sample).
Example of CLICnet to Google Books:

• Topic: Role of women in Flannery O’Connor novels
• Keyword search: women flannery oconnor
• See relevant titles View image
• Copy/paste title in Google Books to see if digitized View image
• ”Limited Preview” lets you read generous selection View image

Google Books to CLICnet
Let’s try the same topic but start with Google Books and use “Find this book in a library” to get to CLICnet. Google Books may lead to relevant books difficult or impossible to find via CLICnet.

• Same topic: Role of women in Flannery O’Connor novels</i
• Same Google Book search: women flannery oconnor
• Review results of Limited Preview titles View image
• Search terms are highlighted in page views View image
• Select “Find this book in a library” and look for UST or other CLIC library holdings. View image. Note CLICnet record lacks any reference to O’Connor so would not have been found View image