To find articles and ejournals search the library's online catalog WorldCat or search Databases. Please check with librarians to see if any journals or magazines are held in the library.
First, try a simple keyword search such as Civil War. Keyword searches produce a large amount of results. This type of search is broad and less precise. Fortunately, most online catalogs and databases have features to help you refine your search terms. Refinement features may include author, year, format, content, audience, or sub-topics.
Creating a search strategy:
Next, try Boolean searching. This type of searching allows you to combine keywords using operators AND, OR, and NOT.
To narrow your results use AND with two or more concepts. Example: tools AND instruments. Results will include both terms.
To broaden your search use OR with synonymous or related words or phrases. Example: Car OR automobile - This type of search expands the search so that you have one result or both.
Sometimes one of your search terms may produce a list of results that includes articles that are not relevant to your topic. Using the operator NOT eliminates words from your search and reduces the number of results. Example: Tower mills NOT windmills. The word windmill will be excluded from the search.
Full-text Databases: refers to electronic resources with access to the complete text of articles in journals, books, newspapers, theses, dissertations, and more. Illustrations, graphs, charts, and images may be included.
Library of Congress Classification Outline
The library uses the LCC system to organize books on the shelf. Books about Technology are located in the main Class T - Technology followed by subclasses.
Main Class T - Technology
T1-995 Technology (General)
T10.5-11.9 Communication of technical information
T11.95-12.5 Industrial directories
T55-55.3 Industrial safety. Industrial accident prevention
T55.4-60.8 Industrial engineering. Management engineering
T57-57.97 Applied mathematics. Quantitative methods
T57.6-57.97 Operations research. Systems analysis
T58.4 Managerial control systems
T58.5-58.64 Information technology
T58.6-58.62 Management information systems
T58.7-58.8 Production capacity. Manufacturing capacity
T59-59.2 Standardization
T59.5 Automation
T59.7-59.77 Human engineering in industry. Man-machine systems
T60-60.8 Work measurement. Methods engineering
T61-173 Technical education. Technical schools
T173.2-174.5 Technological change
T175-178 Industrial research. Research and development
T201-342 Patents. Trademarks
T351-385 Mechanical drawing. Engineering graphics
T391-995 Exhibitions. Trade shows. World's fairs
Technology by 
A Short History of Technology by 
Science and Technology in World History by 
Flying Buttresses, Entropy, and O-Rings by 
Technology and American Society by 
Circles: 50 round trips through history, technology, science, culture by 
Uncommon History of Common Things (Special Sales Edition) by 