Library Database

Library databases organize particular types of materials. Some index citations for government documents, conference proceedings, book reviews, or magazine and journal articles. Others, like your library catalog, focus on a particular collection (i.e. all the holdings of the Mundt Library). Knowing what type of information you are looking for will make your selection easier.

Most library databases specialize in a particular subject. There are databases for education, business, anthropology, engineering, and architecture - virtually every academic discipline! Other databases are more general or multi-disciplinary, indexing popular and scholarly periodicals from a wide variety of topics. The purpose of and the audience for any database determine its content.

 

Now that you understand the basics of the classification systems and library databases lets move on to the Library Catalog.