BUS 530: Managing People in the High Tech Environment
Finding Books Using the Online Catalog
The subjects you will be discussing in this class are very timely,
and even the most recently published books on those topics will lag
behind what will be found in periodical, or journal, literature. But
books can give you a good perspective from which to compare current
developments in your area of interest.
The NCSU Libraries' catalog
lists the books and journal titles held in all of the library locations
on campus. You can search for books by author, title, subject, and keyword.
A set of standardized terms is used for subject searches in the catalog.
For example, one very useful subject term in the catalog for you will
be high technology industries. The group of persons who choose
the terms used in the catalog prefer human capital instead of
"human resources." A subject search for personnel management
will locate a large number of books. Scope notes and further subdivisions
of the above terms may help you identify a more precise term to use for your
search.
If you know the title of a relevant book, you can search this title
in the online catalog, look at what subject headings were used to index
it, and then search those subject headings for additional 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, and then use those terms to
perform a subject search.
Remember that the online catalog allows you to search the library collections
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University.
If you find books, or periodical articles, in other Triangle libraries
that are not available here, the Interlibrary
and Document Delivery Department's Tripsaver
service can usually get them
for you in three to four days. If material you need is not available in the Triangle,
the staff in the same office will search for it more widely, but several weeks
may pass before such an interlibrary loan request is successful.
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