U.S. Legal Resources Guide
Secondary Sources
Finding Books Using the Online
Catalog
Locate books by using the online catalogs for NCSU, UNC-CH, and Duke
University libraries via NCSU's online
catalog, available via the Internet.
You can search for books by author, title, subject, and keyword.
Standardized subject headings are used for subject searches. For example,
these are some some sample subject headings for legal subjects:
| marriage law |
domestic relations |
pets -- law and legislation |
| real property |
corporation law |
taxation -- law and legislation |
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.
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.
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.
Remember that the online catalog allows you to search the law library
collections of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke
University.
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