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Agricultural Technology Program

The following is an overview of information relevant to the Agricultural Technology Program 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.

“American farmers, ranchers, and agricultural managers direct the activities of one of the world’s largest and most productive agricultural sectors. They produce enough food and fiber to meet the needs of the United States and produce a surplus for export.

“Responsibilities of farmers and ranchers range from caring for livestock, to operating machinery, to maintain equipment and facilities. They keep records for management and tax purposes, service machinery, maintain buildings, and grow vegetables and raise animals.

“Agricultural Managers manage the day-to-day activities of one or more farms, ranches, nurseries, timber tracts, greenhouses, and other agricultural establishments for farmers, absentee landowners, or corporations. Their duties and responsibilities vary widely, but are concentrated on the business aspects of running a farm. In some cases, managers may establish output goals; determine financial constraints; monitor production and marketing; hire, assign, and supervise workers; determine crop transportation and storage requirements; and oversee maintenance of the property and equipment.”(Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2006-07 ed., pages 36-37)

To find information useful for classes in this program, you may look in several places. Our library's online catalog is called PrimoVE. Using PrimoVE, you can perform a basic search by typing in key words, such as "farming" or “harvesting” or “mowing machines.” PrimoVE 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 “S.” If you want to browse the shelves in the reference collection or in the circulating collection located on the second floor, both the “HD” and the "S" sections would be a good places to look. You may also look in the online databases of periodical articles, the hard copy periodicals, the audiovisual collection, or on the Internet. 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 librarian at 270-831-9767. Email assistance is also available.

Finding Books
To find books in either the reference or circulating collections, use PrimoVE. When searching PrimoVE, please remember to limit your searches to Henderson Community College; otherwise the search will find books held in any of the KCTCS libraries. Instructions for using PrimoVE are also available through Blackboard in the “Information Literacy Training” eCommunity. To enroll in the “Information Literacy Training eCommunity” please follow these instructions.

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

Agricultural Biotechnology
Agriculture – Statistics
Agricultural Chemicals
Agricultural Conservation
Agricultural Diversification
Agricultural Ecology
Agricultural Economics
Agricultural Machinery
Agricultural Wastes
Drainage
Farm Equipment
Farm Tractors
Farmers
Farms
Fertilizers
Harvesting
Mowing Machines
Pesticides
Spraying Equipment
Tillage

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, PrimoVE. 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.

The Merck Veterinary Manual, REF SF 745 .M4
The New Encyclopedia of the Horse, REF SF 285 .E345
Every Manager’s Desk Reference, REF HD 38.15 .E94
The Color Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, REF SB 403.2 .A76 2009
The Encyclopedia of Organic, Sustainable, and Local Food, REF HD 9005 .E645 2010

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 Agricultural Technology Program:

Belts and Chains, S 675.5 .B45
Electrical Systems, TK 4055 .E43
Fuels, lubricants, coolants, and filters, TJ 789 .R84
Managing Price Risk in Ag Commodity Markets, HD 1437 .P87
Managing Risk Through Crop Insurance, HG 9968 .E38 \
Food and the Mid-Level Farm: Renewing an Agriculture of the Middle, HD 1476 .U6 F66

In addition to those books, audiovisual resources and periodicals available in the Hartfield Library collections, the library also offers a service called Interlibrary Loans (ILL) which provides our students with access to materials held in other libraries. Regardless of the size of a collection, students sometimes find citations and references to resources that are not held by their library. When this happens, the

Hartfield Library contacts other libraries with requests for short term loans of the needed material(s). This service begins with the KCTCS libraries since all materials held in the KCTCS libraries are listed in PrimoVE. If an item is not available through the KCTCS, then a request is sent out through OCLC, the Online Computer Library Center. OCLC is a consortium of 72,000 libraries from 171 countries or territories. Each member has access to a list of items held by other members who then loan these materials.

For a student, the ILL system is simple and convenient. Once the student identifies that an item isn’t held at HCC, they need only fill out and submit an ILL Request Form which is available online through the library’s web page or in hard copy at the Circulation Desk. Once an item is received, the library then informs the student of the item’s availability. Every effort is made to insure that the turn-around time for these requests is as short as possible. Through this service, HCC’s students have access to virtually unlimited resources for their research.

Electronic Books
Electronic books supporting the Agricultural Technology Program are available through EBSCO. eBooks can be accessed through the PrimoVE online catalog. EBSCO provides a collection of full-text books which can be read online. To access these books, simply enter a search in PrimoVE, 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. Some agricultural related titles include:

Careers in Farming, Agriculture, Agribusiness, S 494.5 .A4 C26
Coping with Risk in Agriculture, S 561 .H2335
Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950, S 521.5 .K4 V36
Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works, S 605.5 D87 +
Micronutrients deficiency in soils and plants, S 592.6 .T7

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, or review the tutorial found in the library’s “Information Literacy Training” eCommunity in Blackboard.

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 Agricultural Technology Program:

Farm Journal
Progressive Farmer

Online Databases
Each of the following 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. If you need further explanation, please refer to tutorials in the library’s “Information Literacy Training” eCommunity in Blackboard.

EBSCO

Academic Search Premier
Agricola
BusinessSource Premier
GreenFILE
MasterFile Premier
Regional Business News
eBook Collection
eBook Academic Collection

Gale

Agriculture Collection
Environmental Studies and Policy
Academic OneFile
Small Business Collection
Vocations and Careers Collection

ProQuest

Alt-Press Watch
Career and Technical Education

Audio Visual Materials
Audio-visual materials can come in many forms. Videos, DVDs, CDs, 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 Agricultural Technology Program:

Alternative Agriculture, AV (DVD) HD 1761 .A27
Kentucky Hunter Education, AV (VHS) SK 40 .K37
The Properties of Soil, AV (VHS) S 592.3 .P76
Being Your Own Boss, AV (VHS) HD 8036 .B45

Internet Web Sites
Internet sites can be very useful and informative. 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 web address for the organization.

AgricultureOnline
Created by the editors of Successful Farming magazine, this site features agricultural news, discussions, and other related information.

Agricultural Research Service
ARS conducts research to develop and transfer solutions to agricultural problems of high national priority and provide information access and dissemination to: ensure high-quality, safe food, and other agricultural products; assess the nutritional needs of Americans; sustain a competitive agricultural economy; enhance the natural resource base and the environment; and provide economic opportunities for rural citizens, communities, and society as a whole.

Farm Bureau
An independent, non-governmental, voluntary organization governed by and representing farm and ranch families united for the purpose of analyzing their problems and formulating action to achieve educational improvement, economic opportunity and social advancement and, thereby, to promote the national well- being. Farm Bureau is local, county, state, national and international in its scope and influence and is non- partisan, non-sectarian and non-secret in character. Farm Bureau calls itself the voice of agricultural producers at all levels.

PrecisionAg
An independent global forum dedicated to the sharing of precision agriculture practices, ideas, research, products, services and success stories.

National Farmers Union
Mission statement: “to protect and enhance the economic well-being and quality of life for family farmers and ranchers and their rural communities. We believe that consumers and producers can work together to promote a quality domestic supply of safe food.”

United States Department of Agriculture
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is a Cabinet department of the United States government. Its purpose is to develop and execute policy on farming and food. It aims to meet the needs of farmers and ranchers throughout America, promote agricultural trade and production, work to assure food safety, protect natural resources, foster strong rural communities, and fight hunger in America and abroad. (From www.knowledgerush.com)

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Business Technology Program

The following is an overview of information relevant to the Business Information Program 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 PrimoVE. Using PrimoVE, you can perform a basic search by typing in key words, such as "business" or “management” or “economics.” PrimoVE 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.

Finding Books
To find books in either the reference or circulating collections, use PrimoVE. When searching PrimoVE, please remember to limit your searches to Henderson Community College; otherwise the search will find books held in any of the KCTCS libraries. Instructions for using PrimoVE are available through Blackboard in the “Information Literacy Training” eCommunity. For more information on this, ask a member of the library staff for assistance. To enroll in the eCommunity, please follow these instructions.

Subject Headings are key words or phrases used in PrimoVE that tell you what a book is about. The most efficient and productive searches are those which use Subject Headings. Some of the Subject Headings 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
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, PrimoVE. Below is a list of titles of some reference books that you may find helpful. Because these are reference books, they cannot be checked out; instead they are to be used in the library.

Business Law and the Regulatory Environment, REF KF 888 .B8
Encyclopedia of Associations, REF AS 22 .E5
International Directory of Company Histories, REF HD 2721 .I63
Statistical Abstract of the United States, REF HA 202 N3
Working Americans, 1880-1999, REF HD 8066 .D47

The Kids are Alright: How the Gamer Generation Is Changing the Workplace, GV 1469.3 .K53 B4
Financial Intelligence: A Manager’s Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean, HG 4028 .B2 B422
Made in China: What Western Managers Can Learn From Trailblazing Chinese Entrepreneurs, HB 615 .S94
Thinking for a Living: How to get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers, HD 8039 .K59 D38
Anatomy of a Business Plan, HD 30.28 .P5
Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, PR 9510.9 .G64 G6
Unofficial Guide to Starting a Small Business, HD 62.5 .T873
Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship, HD 62.5 .B94

This service begins with the KCTCS libraries since all materials held in the KCTCS libraries are listed in PrimoVE. If an item is not available through the KCTCS, then a request is sent out through OCLC, the Online Computer Library Center. OCLC is a consortium of 72,000 libraries from 171 countries or territories. Each member has access to a list of items held by other members who then loan these materials.

Electronic Books
Electronic books supporting Business Technology Program are available through EBSCO. eBooks can be accessed through the PrimoVE online catalog. EBSCO provides a collection of full-text books which can be read online. To access these books, simply enter a search in PrimoVE, 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. Some business titles include:

The elements of small business a lay person's guide to the financial terms, marketing concepts and legal forms that every entrepreneur needs
Managing business risk an organization-wide approach to risk management
The 30 day MBA in business finance your fast track guide to business success
Leverage: How to Get It and How to Keep It in Any Negotiation
7 lessons for leading in crisis
Accounting and control for sustainability
Basic statistics understanding conventional methods and modern insights

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, review the tutorial found in the library’s “Information Literacy Training” eCommunity in Blackboard.

Printed Periodicals
The current issues of periodicals are available in hardcopy format on the library's first floor.

EBSCO

Business Source Premier
Small Business Reference Center
Newspaper Source
Regional Business News
Academic Search Premier
MasterFile Premier
TOPICSearch
eBook Collection
eBook Academic Collection

Gale/InfoTrac

Business Economics and Theory
Computer Database
Information Science and Library Issues Collection
Small Business Collection
Vocations and Careers Collection
Academic OneFile

ProQuest

AltPress Watch
Career and Technical Education
New York Times

Audio-Visual Materials
Audio-visual materials can come in many forms. Videos, DVDs, CDs, 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
Communication Skills, AV (DVD) HF 5718 .B37
Conflict Resolution and Etiquette, AV (DVD) HF 5718 .B37
Problem Solving, AV (DVD) HF 5718 .B37

The library also subscribes to Films on Demand, a web-based digital video delivery platform that allows patrons to view streaming videos from the Films Media Group anytime, anywhere. Following are a few of the titles in the Business and Economics collection which may be helpful to those in the business technology program:

Financial Reporting for Business
Assets and Payroll
Big Brother, Big Business: The Data-Mining and Surveillance Industries
Personal Finance
Outsourcing: White Collar Exodus
Employer/Employee Rights and Responsibilities

Internet Web Sites
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.

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

Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Online version of Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine.

Entrepreneur
Online version of Entrepreneur magazine.

FindLaw for Small Business
Provides information about starting and running a business as well as state-specific resources.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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. (3/17)

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Computer and Information Technology Program

The following is an overview of information relevant to the Computer and Information Technology Program 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.

“Computer support specialists provide technical assistance, support, and advice to customers and other users. These troubleshooters interpret problems and provide technical support for hardware, software, and systems.” (Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004-05 ed., page 103)

“Computer programmers write, test, and maintain the detailed instructions, called programs, which computers must follow to perform their functions. They also conceive, design, and test logical structures for solving problems by computer.” (Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004-05 ed., page 96)

“Computer systems analysts solve computer problems and apply computer technology to meet the individual needs of an organization. They may plan and develop new computer systems or devise ways to apply existing systems’ resources to additional operations. (Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004-05 ed., page 106)

“Database administrators work with database management systems software and determine ways to organize and store data. They identify user requirements, set up computer databases, and test and coordinate modifications to the systems.” (Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004-05 ed., page 107)

To find information useful for classes in this program, you may look in several places. Our library's online catalog is called PrimoVE. Using PrimoVE, you can do a basic search by typing in key words, such as "computer software" or “computers” or “read-only memory.” PrimoVE 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 “QA” or “TK.” If you want to browse the shelves in the reference collection or in the circulating collection located on the second floor, both the “QA” and the "TK" sections would be a good places to look. You may also look in the online databases of periodical articles, the hard copy periodicals, the audiovisual collection, or the Internet. 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 a reference librarian at 270-831-9767. Email assistance is also available.

Cache
Memory
Children and Computers
Computer
Art
Computer Crimes
Computer Hardware
Computer Industry
Computer Literacy
Computer Security
Computer System
Security Computers
Electronic Data Processing
Information Storage and Retrieval
Systems Information Technology
Printers
(Data Processing Systems) Programming
(Electronic Computers) Software Protection

International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers, REF QA 76.2 .A2 L44
Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, REF QA 76.9 .D37 E52
Hacknotes Web Security, REF TK 5105.59 .S335 2003

Cyber Crime, HV 6773 .C913 2009
Information Security: A Manager’s Guide to Thwarting Data Thieves and Hackers, HF 5548.37 .A44 2008
Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace, HM 851 .A254 2010
Windows 7: Plain and Simple, QA 76.76 .O63 J698 2010
E-policy Handbook: Rules and Best Practices to Safely Manage Your Company’s E-mail, Blogs, Social Networking, and Other Electronic Communication Tools, HE 7551 .F58 2009
Policing the Internet, HM 851 .P65 2007
High-tech Crimes Revealed, HV 6773 .B73 2005

In addition to those books, audiovisual resources, and periodicals available in the Hartfield Library collections, the library also offers a service called Interlibrary Loans (ILL) which provides our students with access to materials held in other libraries. Regardless of the size of a collection, students sometimes find citations and references to resources that are not held by their library. When this happens, the

Electronic Books
Electronic books supporting the Computer and Information Technology Program are available through EBSCO. eBooks can be accessed through the PrimoVE online catalog. EBSCO provides a collection of full-text books which can be read online. To access these books, simply enter a search in PrimoVE, 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. Some relevant titles include:

Cyberbullying activities to help children and teens to stay safe in a texting, twittering, social networking world
The virtual battlefield perspectives on cyber warfare
Information Ethics: Privacy, property, and power
Computer Security Management
Real Resumes for Computer Jobs
Security in Wireless LANs and MANs
Career as a Database Administrator
Career as a Computer Support Specialist

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, review the tutorial found in the library’s “Information Literacy Training” eCommunity in Blackboard.

Printed Periodicals
Periodicals are available in hardcopy format on the library's first floor.

EBSCO

AcademicSearch Premier
BusinessSource Premier
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
MasterFile Premier
NewspaperSource
Regional Business News
eBook Collection
eBook Academic Collection

Gale/InfoTrac

Computer Database
Information Science and Library Issues Collection
Vocations and Careers Collection
Academic OneFile

ProQuest

Alt-Press Watch
Career and Technical Education
New York Times

The History of Computers, AV (DVD) QA 76.17 .H578
Outsourcing: White Collar Exodus, AV (DVD) HD 2365 .O98

Roles and Responsibilities in IT
Google World
Manufacturing Technology
Big Brother, Big Business: The Data-Mining and Surveillance Industries
CyberSecurity
CyberEthics
CyberSafety

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 web address for the organization.

CompTIA: The Computing Technology Industry Organization
CompTIA is an association representing the international technology community. Its goal is to provide a unified voice, global advocacy and leadership, and to advance industry growth through standards, professional competence, education, and business solutions. CompTIA has developed specialized initiatives and programs dedicated to major areas within the IT industry. They include convergence technology, e-commerce, IT training, software services, certification, public policy and workforce development.

Information Technology Association of America
A trade association offering a wide variety of public policy, business development, and peer-to-peer networking programs.

World Information Technology and Services Alliance
A consortium of over 60 information technology (IT) industry associations from economies around the world. As the global voice of the IT industry, WITSA is dedicated to: advocating policies that advance the industry’s growth and development; facilitating international trade and investment in IT products and services; strengthening WITSA’s national industry associations through the sharing of knowledge, experience, and critical information; providing members with a vast network of contacts in nearly every geographic region of the world; hosting the World Congress on IT, the premier industry sponsored global IT event; hosting the Global Public Policy Conference; and hosting the Global Information Security Summit.

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Early Childhood Education Program

The following is an overview of information relevant to the Early Childhood Education and related programs 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 PrimoVE. Using PrimoVE, you can do a basic search by typing in key words, such as "early childhood education.” PrimoVE 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 “LB.” If you wanted to browse the shelves in the reference collection or in the circulating collection located on the second floor, looking in the “LB” 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.

Child Abuse
Child Development
Child Neglect
Early Childhood Education
Early Childhood Educators
Early Childhood Teachers Education
Education
Preschool Education
Primary Kindergarten

Special Education: A Reference Book for Policy and Curriculum Development, REF LC 3981 .S33 2009
Encyclopedia of Education, REF LB 15 .E47 2003
Something About the Author, REF PN 451 .S6
Statistical Record of Children, REF HQ 767.8 .S73

Creative Resources for the Early Childhood Classroom, LB 1140.4 .H47 2009
Child Development: A Practitioner’s Guide, HV 713 .D395 2011
Developing Brain: Birth to Age Eight: QP 363.5 .S67 2008
Inclusive Play: Practical Strategies for Working with Children from Birth to Eight, LB 1137 .C32 2010
Instruction for All Students, LB 1025.3 .R878 2008
Mathematics Through Play in the Early Years, QA 20 .G35 T83 2010
Guide to Accreditation by the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs: Self-Study, Validation, Accreditation, LB 2822.7 .G85 1998
More Story Stretchers: More Activities to Expand Children’s Favorite Books, LB 1139.35 .A37 R34 1991

Electronic Books
Electronic books supporting the Early Childhood Education Program are available through EBSCO. eBooks can be accessed through the PrimoVE online catalog. EBSCO provides a collection of full-text books which can be read online. To access these books, simply enter a search in PrimoVE, 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. Some relevant titles include:

Expert Resumes for Teachers and Educators
Beginning Teaching – Beginning Learning in Early Years and Primary Education
Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education
Every Day a Good Day: Establishing Routines in Your Early Years Setting

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, review the tutorial found in the library’s “Information Literacy Training” eCommunity in Blackboard.

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 Early Childhood Education Program.

American Educator
Dimensions of Early Childhood
National Geographic
Young Children

EBSCO

ERIC
Teacher Reference Center
Academic Search Premier
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
eBook Collection
eBook Academic Collection

Gale/InfoTrac

Academic OneFile
Psychology Collection
Vocations and Careers Collecton

ProQuest

Career and Technical Education

Career Encounters: Early Childhood Education, AV LB 1139.23 .C37
How Adults Support Children at Planning Time, AV LB 1732.5 .H53 H6
How Adults Support Children at Work Time, AV LB 1732.5 .H53 H6
How Adults Support Children at Recall Time, AV LB 1732.5 H6
Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse and Child Sexual Abuse, HV 6570 .R4346

The library also subscribes to Films on Demand, a web-based digital video delivery platform that allows patrons to view streaming videos from the Films Media Group anytime, anywhere. Following are a few of the titles in the Education collection which may be helpful to those in the Early Childhood Education program:

The Healthy Teacher
Hot Tips for Classroom Management
A TV in the Baby Bottle
How Children Learn
Building Literacy Competencies in Early Childhood
Study of the Child: Theories of Development
Intellectual Development: The First Five Years

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
ERIC is a national system designed to provide users with resources and information on education. ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature indexed from 1966 to the present.

National Association for the Education of Young Children
This site provides an online catalog of books related to early childhood education and information on the following areas: parents, professional development, affiliate resources, accreditation, and conferences.

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Industrial Maintenance Technology

The following is an overview of information relevant to the Industrial Maintenance Technology Program 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.

“[Industrial maintenance technicians] are responsible for cleaning and lubricating machinery, performing basic diagnostic tests, checking performance, and testing damaged machine parts to determine whether major repairs are necessary. Maintenance workers must follow machine specifications and adhere to maintenance schedules. Maintenance workers may perform minor repairs.” (Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004-05 ed., page 556)

To find information useful for classes in this program, you may look in several places. Our library's online catalog is called PrimoVE. Using PrimoVE, you can do a basic search by typing in key words, such as "plant maintenance" or “maintenance.” PrimoVE 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 “TA,” “TS,” and “TT.” If you want to browse the shelves in the reference collection or in the circulating collection located on the second floor, the “T” 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.

Blueprints
Cooling
Heating
Electric Circuits
Electric Machinery
Electric Motors
Electricity Integrated Circuits
Machining Maintenance
Manufacturing Processes
Refrigeration and Refrigerating Machinery
Repairing Trades
Welding

Concise Encyclopedia of Robotics, REF TJ 210.4 .C65 2003
Machinery’s Handbook: A Reference Book for the Mechanical Engineer, Designer, Manufacturing Engineer, Draftsman, Toolmaker, and Machinist, REF TJ 151 .M3 2000
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Engineering, REF TA 9 .M35 1997

Practical Electrical Wiring: Residential, Farm, Commercial, and Industrial, TK 3271 .R48
Managing Maintenance Storerooms, TS 192 .M3
Managing Shutdowns, Turnarounds, and Outages, TS 192 .B77
Machinery Maintenance, TL 233.2 .B83
Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, TK 819 .G38
Pumps and Hydraulics, TP 900 .M55

Electronic Books
Electronic books supporting the Industrial Maintenance Technology Program are available through EBSCO. eBooks can be accessed through the PrimoVE online catalog. EBSCO provides a collection of

full-text books which can be read online. To access these books, simply enter a search in PrimoVE, 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. Some relevant titles include:

Practical Machinery Safety, TJ 1177 .M33
Modeling and Problem-Solving Techniques for Engineers, TA 345 .H67
Guide to Energy Management, TJ 163.3 .C37
Practical Troubleshooting of Electrical Equipment and Circuit Controls, TK 3226 .B76
Lean Maintenance, TS 155 .S635
Enhanced Occupational Outlook Handbook, HF 5382 .F368

Printed Periodicals
Periodical titles available in hardcopy format are located on the library's first floor.

Online Databases
Each of the following 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. If you want to read an article from a specific periodical after searching a database, be sure to specify that title during your search.

EBSCO

BusinessSource Premier
GreenFile
MasterFile Premier
NewspaperSource
Regional Business News
eBook Collection
eBook Academic Collection

Gale/InfoTrac

Academic OneFile
Vocations and Careers Collection

ProQuest

Alt-Press Watch
Career and Technical Education

Electric Motors, AV TK 2851 .T47 S6
Inside the Electrician’s Toolbox, AV QC 527.4 I57
Power and Efficiency, AV QC 518 .P69

Plant Maintenance Resource Center

Includes links to maintenance consultants, CMMS vendors, maintenance conferences, articles on maintenance, and a job board.

International Society of Automation

ISA is a leading, global, nonprofit organization that is setting the standard for automation by helping worldwide members and other professionals solve difficult technical problems, while enhancing their leadership and personal career capabilities. ISA develops standards; certifies industry professionals; provides education and training; publishes books and technical articles; provides career information; and hosts the largest conference and exhibition for automation professionals in the Western Hemisphere.

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Medical Laboratory Technician Program

The following is an overview of information relevant to the Medical Laboratory Technician Program 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.

“Medical laboratory testing plays a crucial role in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of disease… Medical laboratory personnel examine and analyze body fluids, and cells… They use automated equipment and computerized instruments capable of performing a number of tests simultaneously, as well as microscopes, cell counters, and other sophisticated laboratory equipment. Then they analyze the results and relay them to the physicians.” (From the online Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2006-07 ed.)

To find information useful for classes in this program, you may look in several places. Our library's online catalog is called PrimoVE. Using PrimoVE, you can do a basic search by typing in key words, such as "hematology" or “blood” or “microbiology.” PrimoVE 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 “Q” or “R" (e.g. for books on medical terminology, look at books with the call number R 123). If you wanted to browse the shelves in the reference collection or in the circulating collection located on the second floor, both the “Q” and the "R" sections would be a good places 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.

Medical Laboratory Technicians are heavily involved in the many and diverse operations of medical facilities. Thus, when Medical Laboratory Technician students search, many information sources termed “Nursing and Allied Health” will be of significant value.

Finding Books
To find books in either the reference or circulating collections, use PrimoVE. When searching PrimoVE, please remember to limit your searches to Henderson Community College; otherwise the search will find books held in any of the KCTCS libraries. Instructions for using PrimoVE are also available through Blackboard in the “Information Literacy Training” eCommunity. To join the eCommunity, please follow these instructions to enroll in the eCommunity or ask a library staff member for assistance.

Allied Health Personnel
Biochemistry
Blood
Blood – Collection and Preservation
Blood Transfusion
Body Fluids Clinical Chemistry Clinical Laboratory
Diagnostic Microbiology
Drugs – Analysis
Hematology
Immunohematology
Immunology
Laboratories
Medical Laboratory Technology
Medical Technologists Microbial Chemistry
Microbiology
Pharmacology
Phlebotomy
Serology

Toxicology Handbook, REF RA1215 .T69 2011
Mosby’s Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, REF RB38.2 .P337 2012
Manual of Allergy and Immunology (5th Edition), REF RC584 .M36 2012
Handbook of Clinical Biochemistry, REF RB112.5 .S83 2011
Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary, REF R121 .D73 2012
Physicians’ Desk Reference, REF RS 75 .P5

Clinical Parasitology :A Practical Approach, QR 255 .Z45 2013
Phlebotomy Simplified, RB 45.15 .G373 2013
Clinical Laboratory Urinalysis and Body Fluids, RB 53 .S875 2015
Janeway's Immunobiology, QR181 .J37 2012
Immunology : Mucosal and Body Surface Defences, QR181 .W67 2012
Basic Clinical Laboratory Techniques (6th Edition), RB37 .E82 2012
Robbins Basic Pathology, RB111 .K895 2013
Delmar’s Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, RB 38.2 .D36 2014

Electronic Books
Electronic books supporting the Medical Laboratory Technician Program are available through EBSCO. EBSCO provides a collection of full-text books which can be read online. You can check the books out for up to four hours. Some medical laboratory related titles include:

Focus for Excellence - Laboratory Practice
McGraw-Hill's Manual of Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests
Laboratory Management: Quality in Laboratory Diagnosis
Prudent Practices in the Laboratory : Handling and Management of Chemical Hazards
Clinical Microbiology : Quality in Laboratory Diagnosis

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, utilize the tutorial found in the library’s “Information Literacy Training” eCommunity in Blackboard.

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 Medical Laboratory Technician Program:

American Journal of Nursing
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
Medical Laboratory Observer

Online Databases
Each of the following 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. If you want to read an article from a specific periodical after searching a database, be sure to specify that title during your search.

EBSCO

CINAHL with Full Text (Cumulative Index to Allied & Health Literature)
MEDLINE
Health Source – Nursing and Allied Health Edition
Health Source - Consumer Edition
Academic Search Premier
Academic eBook Collection
eBook Collection

Gale

Health Reference Center Academic
Nursing and Allied Health Collection
Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
Vocations and Careers Collection
Academic OneFile

ProQuest

Nursing and Allied Health
Career and Technical Education

Basic Venipuncture, AV RB 45.15 .B37
Avoiding Phlebotomy-Related Lawsuits, AV RB 45.15 .A86
Skin and Soft Tissue Infections, AV RL 201 .S54
Biobasics, AV QL 45.2 .B61
Cultural Diversity Considerations for Care Providers, AV (DVD) RA 418.5 .T73 C846

The library also subscribes to Films on Demand, a web-based digital video delivery platform that allows patrons to view streaming videos from the Films Media Group anytime, anywhere. Following are a few of the titles in the Health and Medicine collection which may be helpful to those in the medical laboratory program:

Investigations in Microbiology
Bacterialand
Classifying Commensals and Pathogens
Preventing Needlestick Injuries
Health Technicians and Technologists

National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences
This site offers a search the site feature. It also provides information concerning accreditation for the following: CLS/MT – Clinical Laboratory Scientist/Medical Technologist, CLT/MLT – Clinical Laboratory Technician/Medical Laboratory Technician, DMS – Diagnostic Molecular Specialist, HT – Histological Technician, HTL – Histotechnologist, and Pathologist Assistant. It also offers links to programs, students, volunteers, committees, and workshops.

MEDLINEplus, a service of the National Library of Medicine
This site provides a search feature. It also contains information on the following: understanding your tests, diagnosis/symptoms, prevention/screening, research, specific conditions/aspects, and children. This site also provides the names of dozens of tests and conditions/diseases. It provides a screenings by age section.

The American Medical Association (AMA)
This site offers a search the site feature. The mission of the AMA is to help doctors help patients and provides information on such topics as medical advocacy, a wide variety of professional resources, and news in the medical field.

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Nursing Program (ADN and PN)

The following is an overview of information relevant to the Nursing Program 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.

“[Nurses] care for ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled persons in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, private homes, group homes, and similar institutions. Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management.” (O*NET Dictionary of Occupational Titles, 3rd edition, page 276.)

To find information useful for classes in this program, you may look in several places. Our library's online discovery service is called PrimoVE. Using PrimoVE, you can perform a basic search by typing in key words, such as "nursing" or “care plans.” PrimoVE 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 "R" (e.g. for books on medical terminology, look at books with the call number R 123). If you want to browse the shelves in the reference collection or in the circulating collection located on the second floor, the "R" 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.

Nurses are heavily involved in the many and diverse operations of medical facilities. When nursing students search, many information sources termed “Nursing and Allied Health” will be of significant value.

Finding Books
To find books in either the reference or circulating collections, use PrimoVE. When searching PrimoVE, please use the dropdown box in the search window to select “Library Catalog-Henderson CC All”; otherwise the search will find books held in any of the KCTCS libraries. Instructions for using PrimoVE are also available through Blackboard in the “Information Literacy Training” eCommunity. To enroll in the “Information Literacy Training eCommunity” please follow these instructions.

Allied Health Personnel
Asepsis Methods
Associate Degree
Nurses
Nurse-Patient Relations
Nursing – Handbooks, Manuals, Etc.
Nursing – Planning – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Nursing Care Plans –Handbooks, Manuals, etc.
Nursing Diagnosis
Nursing Diagnosis – Handbooks
Nursing Ethics
Nursing Process
Patient Care Planning – Handbooks
Patients – Positioning – Handbooks, Manuals, etc.
Practical Nursing

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 discovery service, PrimoVE. 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.

Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis, REF RT 48.6 .C385 2017
Intravenous Medications : a handbook for nurses and health professionals, REF RM 170 .G343 2017
Mosby's dictionary of medical, nursing, & health professions, REF R 121 .M89
Davis's drug guide for nurses, 15th ed, REF RM 301.12 .V35
Mosby's diagnostic & laboratory test reference, REF RB 38.2 .P337
Nursing 2017 drug handbook, REF RM 300 .N87
Handbook of nursing diagnosis, REF RT 48.6 .C385
Intravenous Medications 33rd ed., REF RM170 .G343 2017
Medications and Mother's Milk, REF RJ216 .M475 2017
Maternity and Pediatric Nursing, REF RG951 .R538 2017

All-in-one nursing care planning resource : medical-surgical, pediatric, maternity, and psychiatric-mental health, RT 49 .A45 2016
Maternity and pediatric nursing, RG 951 .R538 2017
Interpersonal relationships : professional communication skills for nurses, RT 86.3 .A76 2016
Nursing care plans : diagnoses interventions, & outcomes, RT 49 .N87 2017
Evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare, RT42 .E95 2019
Nursing Care Plans: guidelines for individualizing client care across the lifespan, RT49 .D64 2019
Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-PN, RT62 .S53 2019
Lippincott Manual of Nursing practice, RT51 .B78 2019
Gahart's 2019 Intravenous Medications, RM170 .G343 2019
Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills, RT41 .T398 2019
The 5 minute clinical consult, RC55 .D6 2019

find citations and references to resources that are not held by their library. When this happens, the Hartfield Library contacts other libraries with requests for short term loans of the needed material(s). This service begins with the KCTCS libraries since all materials held in the KCTCS libraries are listed in PrimoVE. If an item is not available through the KCTCS, then a request is sent out through OCLC, the Online Computer Library Center. OCLC is a consortium of 72,000 libraries from 171 countries or territories. Each member has access to a list of items held by other members who then loan these materials.

Electronic Books
Electronic books supporting the Clinical Laboratory Technician Program are available through EBSCO. eBooks can be accessed most easily using the EBSCO interface. The EBSCO eBook Collection provides a selection of full-text books which can be read online. To access these books, simply enter a search in EBSCO, and scan the resulting titles that appear. Click on the title to read any of the electronic books. You can check the books out for up to four hours. Some nursing titles include:

Women’s Health and Wellness Across the Lifespan
Human Anatomy and Physiology: for Undergraduate Students of Pharmacy, Nursing, Physiotherapy and other Paramedical Sciences
Stories of Dignity within Healthcare: Research, Narratives, and Theories
Confessions of a Trauma Junkie: My Life as a Nurse Paramedic
How to Help the Suicidal Person to Choose Life: the Ethic of Care and Empathy as an Indispensable Tool for Intervention
Look It Up! : What Patients, Doctors, Nurses, and Pharmacists Need to Know about the Internet and Primary Healthcare

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") or review the tutorial found in the library’s “Information Literacy Training” eCommunity in Blackboard.

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 Nursing Program:

American Journal of Nursing
Medical Laboratory Observer
Nursing

EBSCO

AcademicSearch Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
CINAHL with Full Text (Cumulative Index to Allied & Health Literature)
MEDLINE
Health Source – Nursing/Academic Edition
Health Source - Consumer Edition
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Premier
eBook Collection

Gale/InfoTrac

Gale Academic OneFile
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine
Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health
Gale OneFile: Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine
Gale OneFile: Vocations and Careers
Gale OneFile: Health and Wellness

ProQuest

ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Database
Career and Technical Education Database

Audio-Visual Materials

The library subscribes to Films on Demand, a web-based digital video delivery platform that allows patrons to view streaming videos from Infobase anytime, anywhere. Following are a few of the titles in the Health and Medicine collection which may be helpful to those in the Nursing Program:

Male or Female: Cancer Genes Can’t Tell
Virus Hunters
Lessons in Compassion: Teaching Bedside Manner
Phages: Fighting Deadly Infections
Medical Ethics: Real World Applications
Weed 4: Pot vs. Pills

Internet Web Sites
Many sites—especially those associated with professional organizations like the AAMA (American Association of Medical Assistants)—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 web address for the organization.

American Nurses’ Association
This site offers a search the site feature. It also offers links including ANA Convention, Work Place Advocacy, and Online Journal of Issues in Nursing. This site also offers an extensive menu of articles related to such topics as bioterrorism and disaster response, safety and quality, immunization, and needlestick.org. Several online continuing education opportunities are presented as well.

National League for Nursing
This is a part of the Johnson and Johnson national Nursing Program. This site provides information on the following: Public Policy Action Center, Research and Professional Development, Research Grants, and Professional Opportunities. It also provides conference information and information about online nursing courses.

National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc.
The mission of the NCSBN is to lead in nursing regulation by assisting members to promote safe and effective public health and welfare. The site includes information concerning standards for licensure testing, nursing regulations, resources, and testing services.

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