LIBRARY INSTRUCTIIONAL GUIDE
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
Business and management are an important subset of economics as a whole, dealing especially with acquiring capital, the motivation of consumers to purchase goods and the behavior of employees on the job, among many other things.
Finding Books [using
our online book catalog]:
The Library of Congress (LC) Classification System is used by most college and university libraries to classify and arrange books on the shelves. The following letters from the LC Classification System are useful in researching these subjects.
Social Sciences [general] H
Economics HB
Industry, Labor HD
Commerce HF
Banking and Finance HG
Go to these sections in Reference or the general stacks to browse these topic areas. For more detailed information, ask the librarian on duty for a handout describing the complete range of the LC Classification System.
Sample Search Terms [for use in the book catalog or other databases]:
management, business administration, banking and finance, international trade, NAFTA, marketing, accounting, advertising, Bill Gates, materialism, Marxism, stock market, bonds, motivation, consumers and consumerism, business statistics, theories of buying, total quality management, TQM, migrant labor, labor, fiscal accountability, philanthropy, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship
Suggested Print
Resources [in the Reference Section]:
The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics
International Directory of
Business Biographies
Career Opportunities in Computers
and Cyberspace
Export/import
Procedures and Documentation
100
Best Careers for the 21st Century
Encyclopedia of American Business
Encyclopedia of American Women in
Business: from Colonial Times to the Present
Encyclopedia of Small Business
Encyclopedia
of Busine$$ and Finance
Use the online book catalog to determine the call numbers
for the above items, or ask for help at the Information Desk.
Online Databases:
Online databases yield important information published in the periodical literature, including magazines, professional journals and newspapers. Some of our most authoritative sources for this type of information are:
EbscoHost
[Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete]
Gale
/ Info-Trac Newspapers
WilsonWeb
Click on our library home page under “Online
Databases” to access these resources.
All of them contain full-text capabilities, allowing selected articles
to be printed out in their entirety.
Internet Resources
[selected]:
These content-rich websites contain much useful data. However, as with all Net-based resources, students should be discriminating about what they are finding and using. Not all resources on the Internet are equal. These have been found to be reliable.
www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/All_Agencies/index.shtml,
www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Citation Style: Can vary. Please check with your instructor.
Tutorials: [under construction]
For further information, call the general library reference number at
the Main Yeary library at 956-721-5274 or 956-794-4261 at the Zaffirini (South)
library. We are available for assistance
during all hours the library is open.
You may also reach us by email at reference_desk@laredo.edu.