PA 803: Advanced Research Design
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, and keyword.
Standardized subject headings are used in LC (Library of
Congress) subject searches. The LCSH
is available online, and in a four volume set near the reference desk. These
are examples of the subject terms that describe public administration
topics:
| Administrative Law |
Intelligence service |
| Bureaucracy |
Intergovernmental cooperation |
| Civil service |
Internet in public administration |
| Communication in public administration |
Local government |
| Crisis management in government |
Mentoring in public administration |
| Decentralization in government |
Military government |
| Expenditures, Public |
Office practice in government |
| Foreign relations administration |
Personnel management |
| Government productivity |
Public administration - United States |
| Governmental investigations |
Sunset reviews of government programs |
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.
Books in the library stacks on the 3d through 9th floors of the building
are arranged by LC
classification numbers that group material on a topic together. You may
be able to go to an area of the stacks and browse the books there to find
material of interest.
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 in the Periodical Articles
section, 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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