Library: Communication Studies 100: Home

Sources for books:

Library Catalog (EdgeCat) to find books and other materials in the Edgewood Library. Good for background information and overviews. Reference books can be particularly helpful.

Do a Keyword Search directly from the Library home page with –click on Library Catalog in the navigation bar for full search options

Keyword searches will look for your search term in the subject, title and contents in the full record
Click on a title on your list and look at the Subject part of the bibliographic record.
Click on one of the subject headings. By clicking on a subject heading, you will be able to find all other materials in the collection with that exact subject heading.
Record the subject headings for relevant books.

Note: If you do not find many books, try a more general subject heading:

Exact subject: National Security – United States – History – Sources (1 title)

scroll up to: National Security – United States (26 titles)

Find a reference book for concise background information on your topic

Search by Keyword for your topic, then click Modify Search. Limit to Reference:

Truncation – use the asterisk * to find terms with variations of the core word: medical, medicine, ethic, ethics, ethical, ethically, ecology, ecological, ecologist, ecologists, etc.
Review the list and select entries that you like by clicking on the “Mark” boxes to the left. Then click on the Saved marked records box.
Click on View Saved (gray button on top). In next window, click on Brief Display and enter your email address..

Books by and about people
If a book is by somebody, do an "author" search, and it's last name first, i.e. "Twain, Mark."
Conversely, if a book is about somebody, do a "subject search," and it's also last name first, i.e. "Twain, Mark."