The following information is an overview of information relevant to the Business Information found in the Hartfield Library at Henderson Community College. This information is not intended to be a complete list of such material, but rather is a sampling of some titles that will be helpful and easily found in the Hartfield Library.

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 "business" or “management” or “economics.” 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 letter “HD” or “HF." 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 Business Technology Program are:

Accounting

Advertising

Bookkeeping

Business

Business Communication

Business Law

Business Writing

Commerce

Customer Relations

Economics

Interpersonal Communication

Management

Mass Media and Business

Mentors in Business

Organization Charts

Profit

Proposal Writing in Business

Selling

Small Business

Success in Business

Trade

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. Encyclopedia of Associations, REF AS 22 .E5

2.  International Directory of Company Histories, REF HD2721 .I63

3.  Working Americans, 1880-1999, Ref HD 8066 .D47 2000

4.  Market Share Reporter,, REF HF 5410 .M35

5.  Business Law and the Regulatory Environment, REF KF 888 .B8 2001

6.  Encyclopedia of eCommerce, eGovernment, and Mobile Commerce,

REF HF 5548.32 .E52 2006

7.  Every Manager’s Desk Reference, REF HD 38.15 .E94 2002

8.  Statistical Abstract of the United States, REF HA 202 N3

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 Business Technology Program.

1. The Kids are Alright: How the Gamer Generation Is Changing the Workplace,

GV 1469.3 .K53 B4 2006

2.  Financial Intelligence: A Manager’s Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really

            Mean, HG 4028 .B2 B422 2006

3.  Made in China: What Western Managers Can Learn From Trailblazing Chinese

            Entrepreneurs, HB 615 .S94 2005

4.  Thinking for a Living, HD 8039 .K59 D38 2005

5.  Anatomy of a Business Plan, HD 30.28 .P5 2005
6.Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, PR 9510.9 .G64 G6 2004

7.  Unofficial Guide to Starting a Small Business, HD 62.5 .T873 2004

8.  Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship, HD 62.5 .B94 2004

Electronic Books

Many of the library's newest books supporting the Business 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 Business Technology titles include:

1. Legal Forms for Starting and Running a Small Business
2. Managing Business in a Multi-Channel World
3. Global Integrated Supply Chain Systems
4. Bigger Isn’t Always Better
5. Mergers and Acquisitions from A to Z
6. Mentoring in Action
7. Soaring on your Strengths
8. Crisis Management by Apology
9. Business Guide to Sustainability
10. Leverage
11. Business Statistics of the United States
12. Boost Your Presentation IQ
    

FINDING 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 Business Technology Technician Program.

1. Adbusters

2.  Advertising Age

3.  Business Week

4.  Economic Review

5.  Entrepreneur

6.  Harvard Business Review

7.  Journal of Employment Counseling

8.  PC Magazine

9.  Sales and Marketing Management

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

Business Source Premier

Newspaper Source

Regional Business News

Academic Search Premier

MasterFile Premier

TOPICSearch

Facts on File

World News Digest

NewsBank

NewsFile Collection

InfoTrac

Expanded Academic ASAP

Academic OneFile

ProQuest

AltPress Watch

ProQuest Newspapers

ProQuest Computing

ProQuest Career and Technical Education

New York Times

First Search

WorldCat

GPO

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 Business Technology program.

• Stress Management, AV (DVD) HF 5718 .B37 2005
• Professional Image, AV (DVD) HF 5718 .B37 2005
• Cross Talk at Work, AV (DVD) HM 258 .C767
• Personnel, AV (DVD) HD 5549 .P40 2005
• Communications, AV (DVD) HF 5718 .B37 2005
• Conflict Resolution and Etiquette, AV (DVD) HF 5718 .B37 2005

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.

1.  http://www.bankrate.com/brm/

Bankrate.com

Find comparative information on a variety of financial products; information gathered from survey of approximately 4,800 financial institutions.

2. http://www.businessweek.com
BusinessWeek

Online version of BusinessWeek magazine.

3. www.entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneur

Online version of Entrepreneur magazine.

4. http://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/

FindLaw for Small Business

Provides information about staring and running a business as well as state-specific resources.

5. http://www.consumer.gov/

FirstGov for Consumers

A gateway to consumer information from the federal government.

6. http://www.managementhelp.org/topics.htm

Free Management Library
A large collection of articles on topics related to management.

7. http://www.irs.gov/businesses/index.html

IRS: Tax Information for Businesses
A variety of news and information from the Internal Revenue Service.

8. http://www.inc.com/welcome.html

Inc. Magazine
An online business magazine that offers articles and guides on various topics.

9.  www.osha.gov

Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSHA is part of the U.S. Department of Labor.

10. http://www.learnwebskills.com/company/index.html

Researching Companies Online
A general tutorial about finding company information on the Internet.

11.  http://www.sba.gov

United States Small Business Administration

An independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation.  Provides links to tools, assistance sources, planning information, and local resources.  Includes a search feature.    

12.  http://sbdcnet.org/

Small Business Development Center National Information Clearinghouse
SBDCNET serves as a resource providing timely, relevant research, web-based information, and training to SBDC counselors and their small business clients.

13. http://www.bbb.org
Better Business Bureau
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) system in the U.S. extends across the nation; coast-to-coast, and in Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico.  Since the founding of the first BBB in 1912, the BBB system has proven that the majority of marketplace problems can be solved fairly through the use of voluntary self-regulation and consumer education.  The BBB’s Core Services include: Business Reliability Reports, Dispute Resolution, Truth-in-Advertising, Consumer and Business Education, and Charity Review.