COM487: Internet and Society
Finding Books (and Journal Titles) Using the 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 for subject searches. For example,
these are some some sample subject headings for subjects relating to
sociology:
| Bulletin boards |
Internet - Social aspects |
| Computer adventure games |
Internet banking |
| Computer games |
Mass media - Political aspects |
| Computer networks - Social aspects |
Microcomputers |
| Computer security |
Mobile commerce |
| Computers and civilization |
Multi-user dungeons |
| Digital divide |
Online social networks |
| Digital media - Social aspects |
Political participation - United States - Computer network
resources |
| Distance education |
Telecommunication in education |
| Electronic discussion groups |
Telecommuting |
| Electronic mail systems |
Wikis (Computer science) |
| Information society |
World wide web |
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.
Look beyond the resources in Triangle libraries by using the WorldCat database.
Journal titles: Records for the journals 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
periodicals. It only records the titles of periodicals. You must use
databases, like those noted above, to search the contents of journals. In some
cases, you can find full-text of a periodical'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.
Tripsaver/ILL: 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 (IL/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.
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