ANT 495r: Forensic Anthropology
Finding Books (and Journal Titles) Using the Library's Online Catalog
Use the library's on-line catalog
to locate books in our collection. You may also use it to check for holdings
at UNC-CH, Duke, and NC Central. Workstations in the D. H. Hill Library are
located on the first floor, East Wing (Learning Commons), West Wing (Reading
Room); the ground floor Reading Room; the north end of the second floor tower;
and the southwest corner of the fifth and sixth floor stacks. The book
catalog is available from any computer on the Internet.
You can search for books by author, title, subject, keyword, and by a
variety of alpha-numeric control numbers.
Standardized subject headings are used in LC subject searches. (LC is the
Library of Congress.) For example, these are some some sample subject
headings for subjects relating to forensic anthropology:
| Dental anthropology |
Forensic sciences |
| Forensic anthropology |
Medical jurisprudence |
| Forensic osteology |
Physical anthropology |
If you know the title of a relevant book, you can also search this title in
the online catalog, look at what subject headings were used to index it, and
then search those subject headings for further books on the topic.
A second way to discover what subject terms have been chosen for use in the
library's catalog is to do a keyword search, display the results, and examine
the subject heading lines that appear in each record's display. Note any
subject terms that interest you, quit the keyword search mode, and then do a
subject search on the terms you've noted.
Records of the journal titles the library holds are contained in the
library's catalog. The catalog also shows which years are available in the
building in hard-copy. A periodical title's catalog record provides a link to
an electronic copy of the title, if we have access to it in that format.
The library's catalog does not contain references to the articles within
journals. It only records the titles of journals. You must use databases, like
those noted in the Finding Journal
Articles section, to search the contents of journals. In some cases, you
can
find full-text of a journal's contents using these databases. But that is not
always possible. When full-text electronic access is not available, search the
library's catalog under the name of the journal you want, obtain its call
number, and then get the volume from the bookstack.
While this is a large library, it does not have all the books and journals
you may want to use in your studies. The Interlibrary and
Document Delivery Services (ILL/DDS) Office facilitates access to
materials not available in the NCSU Libraries. Requests for material in other
Triangle libraries can usually be filled in three to four days; items that
must be obtained from a greater distance may take several weeks to arrive.
For a topic as specialized as forensic anthropology, for which NCSU does
not have a large collection of material, you may want to search library
catalogs comprehensively. The OCLC database contains millions of
records
of books, and you can find records to many volumes not held in local
libraries. You may request these books through the ILL service, but remember
to give yourself plenty of lead-time. We could be requesting these books from
libraries at a remote distance, and delivery time will be longer than for a
book found in the Triangle.
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