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 belows.
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. Copy and paste any call number into the Call Number Locator below to see where it lives in the library.
A call number will look something like this:
HD66 .S4849 2017
You can use the call number locator map to see what shelf the book is located on in the library.
What is it exactly that you are trying to find? Think of a way to state your topic in 1-2 sentences.
Example research question:
How do international companies create business strategies that successfully work in different work cultures that may vary drastically from one another?
Using the 1-2 sentences you created for your research question or statement, pull the important words (and synonyms of those words) to use as keywords to create your search.
Example keywords:
Boolean operators can broaden or narrow your search and create relationships between keywords.
AND, OR, NOT
Quotation marks
Asterisks
Use Search Options (also known as facets or filters) to further narrow your search to a specific type of resource or date range. These facets are typically found in the left menu of a database and in SURF.