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Criminal Justice: The Search for Sources

Search Strategy

""Once you know your topic, when choosing keywords it's always a good idea to start broad and pare down. An excellent strategy for this is to take the exact words either the table of contents of your assigned book or the Professor's syllabus.

Circulating Books by Subject

 

The following keywords are associated in the catalog with where you can find books in the library. The keywords themselves, however, would make an excellent starting point within CJ Databases as well.

Highlighted Titles

 Here are some books you may want to explore:             

    Reference Titles

    QR codes replace Text It option

    photograph of hands holding a mobile phoneInstead of texting, the new JETfind uses QR codes and permalinks. 

    Snapping a pic of the QR codes will open the item to your phone's web browser. If you are browsing the catalog from home, loading the book's location into your phone makes it very easy to retrieve it once you are in the library. Additionally - whether you're in the library or not -  QR-ingi the information also means you won't have to print each record out or write down the precise call number(s). Lastly, it's a 'greener' way to go!

    Just open your smartphone's camera, hover over the QR code and the rest will happen automatically.

     

    screenshot of search result page with the QR code icon

    screenshot of QR code for items