If a book is not available in SU Libraries, we can check to see if it is available through other libraries in the University System of Maryland. If not we can request it through Interlibrary Loan. You can access your account from this guide.
In our third floor stacks our books are organized by topic using the Library of Congress Classification. This means if you find a book on the shelf about a certain topic, the books in the same general area will be similar in scope. This is really helpful for browsing the stacks. When you find a book that's relevant, take a look at the nearby titles, look at their tables of contents and indexes, maybe another book is more relevant to your research.
In business research you may find yourself in these areas of the collection more frequently then others:
BF - Psychology
G - Geography
H - Social Sciences
K - Law in General
T - Technology
If you find a physical book, it will have something called a call number. The call number is like its home address; it explains where the book "lives" in the library. You can copy and paste any call number into the Call Number Locator below to find its location in the library.
A call number will look something like this:
HD66 .S4849 2017
Use the call number locator map below to see what shelf the book is located on in the library.