Books & eBooks
Search the Library’s Collection
Here, you can find tips for searching our library catalog as well as a selection of books related to social work.
What is listed here is only a sample of the library’s content. Your own searches should turn up much more.
Search the Library Catalog
How to Find Books in the Catalog
- Keyword
Type any term, such as psychology or modeling. Remember, keyword searching only looks for your term. There’s no guarantee the results will be about your term.
- Title
Type any known words from the title. Avoid articles like a or the.
- Author
Use Last name, First name or First name Last name order.
To Northwestern Oklahoma State University Library Services to discover items held at NWOSU (Figure 1).
By Format (book, article, etc.) to get materials of a particular type.
To Full Text to see materials you can read right away on your screen.
To Peer Reviewed to see only scholarly journal articles.
Limiters in the Catalog
Select the Advanced Search option to refine your search or use the options in left sidebar after you have begun your search.
Use quotes around phrases like "social media" or "college athletes".
A search for books will include both print books and eBooks but can be limited to either format.
Figure 2
An Example of Search Results
Note. This example contains both books and eBooks.
Use the Boolean operators and, or, and not.
Examples:
Soviet and
Russian "Soviet Union" or Russia
Mexico not New
Note: Some databases and search engines require that Boolean operators be typed in all caps to distinguish them from search terms.
To truncate a search term, enter a minimum of the first three letters followed by a question mark (?) or an asterisk (*).
Example: child* or infant*
Use parentheses to create more precise searches.
Example: (games or toys) and (child* or infant*)
Suggested Books
The following is a selection from our catalog.
Doing Social Work Research by Call Number: eBookISBN: 0335235646Publication Date:Social work research is shown to be both a distinctive academic enterprise and a task that can be accomplished effectively in line with the values and ethical principles that lie at the discipline’s core.
Evidence-Based Practice in the Field of Substance Abuse by Call Number: 362.29 Ev32ISBN: 1412975778Publication Date:Offering readers the most current knowledge on what works in substance abuse treatment today, this one-of-a-kind anthology presents state-of-the-art material to help researchers better understand which interventions work and why, and it includes editorial commentary and critical thinking questions for each selection.
Is It Ethical?: 101 Scenarios in Everyday Social Work Practice by Call Number: 174.93613 H7834iISBN: 1929109296Publication Date:This book provides students and professional social workers with 101 different everyday scenarios and challenges them to think about what the ethical and unethical choices might be in each situation.
What Social Workers Do by Call Number: 361.32 G355w2ISBN: 0871012421Publication Date:This book focuses on the roles and functions social workers perform in various areas and highlights the dynamism and vitality of the profession.
When Their World Falls Apart by Call Number: 363.348 W5743r2ISBN: 0871013584Publication Date:Born out of necessity and tested in the real world of natural and technological disasters as well as disasters of human design, this timely and critically important new volume is a comprehensive and clear examination of the effects of disasters on children and families from cognitive and behavioural, family systems, and ecological perspectives.
You May Ask Yourself by Call Number: 301 C7616y2ISBN: 039361428XPublication Date:The “untextbook” that teaches students to think like a sociologist. You May Ask Yourself gives instructors an alternative to the typical textbook by emphasizing the big ideas of the discipline.
