“Industrial engineers determine the most effective ways to use the basic factors of production – people, machines, materials, information, and energy – to make a product or to provide a serve.  They are the bridge between management goals and operational performance.  They are more concerned with increasing productivity through the management of people, methods of business organization, and technology than are engineers in other specialties.” (Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004-05 ed., page 135-136)

To find information useful for classes in this program, you may look in several places. Our library's online catalog is called Voyager. Using Voyager, you can do a basic search by typing in key words, such as "industrial technicians" or “industrial engineers.” Voyager will show you all the books and audiovisual materials available on the selected topic. You will find that many Library of Congress call numbers on these subjects begin with the letters “TJ.”  If you wanted to browse the shelves in the reference collection or in the circulating collection located on the second floor, the “TJ” section would be a good place to look. You may also look in the online databases of periodical articles, the hard copy periodicals, the audiovisual collection, or Internet Web sites. Each of these sources of information is explained below.

If you have questions or need assistance in finding additional materials, please see a librarian at the reference desk or contact the reference desk at 270-831-9767. Email assistance is available at kevin.reid@kctcs.edu.

FINDING BOOKS
To find books in either the reference or circulating collections, use Voyager. When searching Voyager, please remember to limit your searches to Henderson Community College; otherwise the search will find books held in any of the KCTCS libraries. More thorough instructions on the use of Voyager are available in the tri-fold brochure titled “Using Voyager.” This brochure is available at the front of the library.  Instructions for using Voyager are also available through the Blackboard software in the “Information Literacy Training” eCommunity.  For more information on this, ask a member of the library staff for assistance.

Subject Headings are key words or phrases used in Voyager to tell you what a book is about. The most efficient and productive searches are those that use Subject Headings. Some of the Subject Headings that are particularly useful for students in the Industrial and Engineering Technology Program are:

Electric Circuits

Blueprints

Engineering Drawings

Production Engineering

Manufacturing Processes

Manufacturing Resource Planning

Industrial Engineering

Mechanics

Machinery

Motors

Electric Machinery

Electronics

Industrial Electronics

Measuring Instruments

Instrumentation Technicians

Heating

Cooling

Fluid Power Technology

Reference Books

Reference materials are materials that are created to give you general information about a topic. After you read the information in a reference book, you can search the library for more detailed and extensive information. Hopefully, you will find some good ideas about useful subject headings or key words that are relevant to your topic by looking through the reference books. When you are ready to search for more information about your topic, you can use the library's online catalog, Voyager. Below is a list of titles of some reference books that you might find helpful. Because these are reference books, they cannot be checked out; instead they are to be used in the library.

1. Thomas Register, REF T12 .T6

2.  Concise Encyclopedia of Robotics, REF TJ210.4 .C65

3.  McGraw-Hill’s National Electrical Code Handbook, Ref TK260 .N2

4.  Eshbach’s Handbook of Engineering Fundamentals, REF TA151 .E8

5.  Machinery’s Handbook, REF TJ151 .M3

6.  McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Engineering, REF TA9 .M35

7. Kentucky Directory of Manufacturer’s, REF T12 .K56

Books That Can Be Checked Out (Circulating Books)

Circulating books are books that can be checked out of the library. The circulating collection is located on the second floor of the library. Anyone with a valid library card may check out these books. Below are some titles that may be of interest to students in the Industrial and Engineering Technology Program.

1. Practical Electrical Wiring, TK3271 .R48 2005

2.  Essential Drucker, HD31 .D7672

3.  Machinery’s Handbook, TJ151 .M3

4.  Doolin’s Troubleshooters Bible, TH7687.7 .D66  

5.  How Buildings Work, TH6021 .A44

6. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, HD57.7 .M3937

Electronic Books

Many of the library's newest books supporting the Industrial and Engineering Technology program are available electronically through the NetLibrary collection which is accessed through the Voyager online catalog. NetLibrary provides a collection of over 29,000 full-text books which can be read online. To access these books, simply enter a search in Voyager, and scan the resulting titles. If an e-book is available, the phrase, "[electronic resource]" will appear after the title. Click on the title to read any of the electronic books. You can check the books out for up to four hours. Additional instructions for accessing electronic books are available at the reference desk. For instructions on how to access and use these electronic books, use the tri-fold brochure titled, “Using NetLibrary.” Some Industrial and Engineering Technology titles include:

1. Database Modeling for Industrial Data Management
2. Electrical Inspection Notes
3. Fundamentals of Industrial Instrumentation and Process Control
4. Modeling and Problem-Solving Techniques for Engineers
5. Energy Management Handbook
6. Lean Manufacturing That Works
7. Emerging Solutions for Future Manufacturing Systems
8. Opportunities in Engineering Careers

PERIODICAL ARTICLES

Students generally find articles taken from magazines and journals to be particularly useful sources of current information. To help students, the Hartfield Library subscribes to a wide variety of periodicals in both hard copy and electronic formats. The articles available electronically are found on a number of databases accessible through the library's web page.  For instructions on how to access articles from the specific databases, use the tri-fold brochures available in the front of the library (e.g. "How to Use InfoTrac.")

Printed Periodicals
The following periodical titles are available in the hardcopy format on the library's first floor and are of value to the students of the Industrial and Engineering Technology Program.

1. BusinessWeek

2.  Harvard Business Review

3.  PC Magazine

4.  Smart Computing

Online Databases
Each of these databases contains hundreds of full-text articles as they were published in various national magazines and journals. To see which periodicals are available full-text in each database, select that database, go to the message "Title List" and click on it to review the list (in the ProQuest databases, click on “Publication Search”). If you want to read an article from a specific periodical after searching a database, be sure to specify that title during your search.

Please note that each database offers help screens that explain how the search engine of that database operates. These help screens also identify the advanced search options for students who want to fine-tune their searches.

EBSCO Databases

BusinessSource Premier

MasterFile Premier

NewspaperSource

Regional Business News

Facts on File

World News Digest

First Search

GPO

WorldCat

InfoTrac

Academic OneFile

Expanded Academic ASAP

NetLibrary

NewsBank

NewsFile

ScienceSource

           

ProQuest

Alt-Press Watch

Career and Technical Education

ProQuest Computing

ProQuest Newspapers

New York Times

Audio-Visual Materials

Audio-visual materials can come in many forms. Videos, DVD's, CD's, filmstrips, and slides are all audio-visual materials. At the Hartfield Library, many of our audio-visual materials are DVDs and videos. The audio-visual materials are located on the first floor, in room LB 102. The titles below may be of interest to students in the Industrial and Engineering Technology Program.

• The hourly/technical interview, AV HF5549.5 .I6 v.6
• Globalization in practice, AV HD62.4 .G55
• Interviewing principles and techniques, AV HF 5549.5 .I6 v. 1
• The one minute manager, AV Audio HD 31 .B527
• Benchmarking in practice, AV HD62.15 .B46
• Promoting employee initiative, AV (DVD) HD50.5 .M2
• Problem solving, AV (DVD) HF5718 .B37
• Coal, oil and gas, AV (DVD) TJ163.2 .P76

Internet Web Sites

Internet sites are becoming increasingly useful.  Many sites—especially those associated with professional organizations offer connections to information such as articles, bibliographies, and job search engines. A few such useful web sites are listed below. Please be aware that electronic addresses do change frequently. If an address listed below becomes obsolete, use an Internet search engine like Yahoo or Google to find the new address for the organization.

http://www.nait.org/

National Association of Industrial Technology

Promotes industrial technology in business, industry, education, and government.  Provides certification of industrial technologists and recognizes continued professional development. 

http://www.theiet.org/

Institution of Engineering and Technology

Professional society for the engineering and technology community.  Provides training, professional development, and career information. 

http://www.nicet.org/home.cfm

National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies

Provides certification for varying levels of technology competencies.