COM498m: Special Topics: Mobile Technologies and Culture
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.
For a topic like yours involving a recent technological and social
development, keyword searches are likely to be more productive than subject
searches. Try searching phrases like
| Cell phones |
Public spaces |
| Cellular telephones |
Society |
| Mobile communication |
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Look beyond the resources in Triangle libraries by using the WorldCat database.
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.
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.
Librarian Contact Information
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