Financial Management: Finding Books and Media

You can search for books, movies, and music by using the library's Classic Catalog or Classic Search.  It supports a wider range of searching with ORing, truncation (using $ for roots or ? for embedded letters), proximity, and more.

Click on this button

to bring up the Advanced or Powersearch search interface:

You can search for books, movies, and music by using the library's Classic Catalog or Classic Search.  It supports a wider range of searching with ORing, truncation (using $ for roots or ? for embedded letters), proximity, and more.

Click on this button

to bring up the Advanced or Powersearch search interface:

Then copy and paste this search:

personal financ$ or financial litera$

into the subject box so it looks like this:

Next click on or press enter.

(The $ sign allows you to find every subject that starts with the letters before it.)

At the bottom of the screen, below are more options to choose from like library.

To search beyond basic AND/NOT and be able to drive your own searching by using more Boolean logic and functions such as:

truncation (of various kinds)

OR

proximity

is available for you.  (Off Campus or Outside of Network you will be prompted for your ACC eID.)

In addition to the search boxes you see, you may add rows.

You may also enter more advanced searches directly into the keyword box, such as:

environment* AND (pollut* OR chemi* OR toxic OR poison*)

The

• AND
• OR
• NOT

operators must be capitalized for the search engine to understand your intention.

Be sure to check the Austin Community College box at the bottom of the Worldcat page from the Limit your search dropdown list:

For even more options for your searching

is available to you by clicking on the  button

inside OCLC Worldcat.   (Off Campus or Outside of Network you will be prompted for your ACC eID.)

From Limit availability to:

be sure to check the box before

Items in my library (TAC, Austin Community College):

The box at the bottom of the OCLC WorldCat Expert Search screen provides detailed search options you can use:

If you need help, contact me.

Library Resources

Sometimes the Internet is not the best or fastest resource to use to get information. There are many excellent financial management encyclopedias and dictionaries in the reference areas of campus libraries as well as books that can be borrowed from the library. There are also e-books that can be read online. Look for the symbol.

To search for books and videos on financial management, go to the library web search. You can search by call number (HD-HJ), to browse the collection online.

Financial Management call numbers:

You can also search by keywords and phrases, such as accounting, banks, banking, credit, debt, finance, financial management, lending, stocks, etc. You can use such terms to search periodical indexes for magazine and journal articles or to search the Internet.

Remember that you can ask a reference librarian to assist you with your research, in person in the library, by telephone, or online.

See also the Real Estate Research Guide for titles about RE investing: http://researchguides.austincc.edu/realestate

See also the Accounting Research Guide for additional titles on analyzing companies' financial strength:  http://researchguides.austincc.edu/accounting

Titles are in call number order:

Online, full-text Electronics books accessible from on or off campus

Finding e-Books - Online Tutorial

In this tutorial you will explore the role books play in research, how to find books, and how to access e-books.This module is designed to take about 10 minutes to complete and includes lots of examples and some interactive practice.

RECOMMEND a book or video.  Send me an email, to recommend books or media for the Library to purchase for our collection.