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Higher Education
Research Guide
 

Books - Higher Education

A. Search for books from UMass Library Catalog at http://www.library.umass.edu/cgi-bin/aka/babel.cgi?dokma=http://umlibr.library.umass.edu/

Subject Heading Searches: Here are some sample subject searches on this topic. You can Search by Subject to see lists of library owned material on a topic.

For example: Affirmative Action Programs; Education Higher; Minorities Education Higher ; Higher Education and State; Universities and Colleges

Tip: After you have entered a search Limit the search and select from the options.

Keyword Options: It is also possible to search by keyword to combine various terms.
For example: higher and policy - to retrieve any records containing the words higher (as in higher education) and policy. student affairs (higher or universit*) - to retrieve records about student affairs in universities or institutions of higher education); affirmative action (more results than with a subject search, but perhaps not as focused); Universities and Colleges and affirmative.
Note: By adding * after part of a word the system will retrieve all words beginning with the word you type, i.e. Teach* retrieves Teach, Teacher, Teachers, Teaching.

B. Find Locations of Books Most books and other materials on education reside in the 'L' section of the Library of Congress Classification system we use to organize materials by subject in the Libraries. The 'L's currently sit on the 20th floor of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library. The Library of Congress call number area that contains a significant number of books, journals and other materials on education is:

Call Number Areas for Higher Education are LB 2300-2430


C. Net Library - online books

D. Other Catalogs for Finding Books

WorldCat and Other Library Catalogs for searching other catalogs if you don't find books in the Five College System.

Borrow books from the Virtual Catalog and Interlibrary Loan.

Massachusetts residents may borrow library materials.

Visit the Main Level (the floor below the Entrance level) of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library to use the Reference Collection and conduct web-based research.


  


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