• Use Illinet Online to find books held in the Elmhurst College library as well as books owned by 65 other Illinois academic libraries.
  
  
• An Any Word, Anywhere search offers a good way to start looking for books by topic in Illinet Online. Use the main words describing your topic. Use quotes to search multi-word term like "company aquisitions" or "corporate mergers".
  
  
• A more precise way of searching is to use controlled vocabulary or an Browse Subject search. Illinet Online's controlled vocabulary is known as Library of Congress Subject Headings (or LC subject headings). Unlike keywords, you can't simply make these up: you have to find out what the exact terms are and enter them in Illinet as a subject heading search. Some examples of established subject headings are:
  
         Organizational change--Management
         Corporate reorganizations--Management
         Consolidation and merger of corporations--Management
  
  
• Use a Guided Keyword Search to combine two subject terms or concepts into one search.
  
  
• Inter-Library Loan ~ Illinet Online allows you to request books held by 65 academic libraries in Illinois.

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Jennifer C. Paliatka, Assistant Librarian, Elmhurst College
This page was created 08/07/2003 and was last modified 07/13/2004.