Topic - Healthcare Administration: Basic Info (Facts, Books)

• Run your keyword search in RamSearch
• Limit your search to 'books' (print books on site) or 'ebooks' available instantly
  • To access print books, note the call number, then locate the book in the shelves on the Lower Mezzanine or Ground level
    • Check them out at the Circulation Desk
  • To access ebooks, follow the link through to the online full text
• Note: Ram Search does not search all the Minuteman libraries; shows just books owned by FSU
  • To find books in the entire Minuteman library system, search our catalog

Search the Credo Reference database

• Authoritative essays from encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks and more
• Find relevant articles using the main search box
• Find Topic Pages for a quick overview
• Browse the collection
  • By topic area
  • By alphabetical title
• See a Mindmap (on general topics)
  • Good for brainstorming paper topics, especially for narrowing too-broad topics
  • The Mindmap contains follow-able links
• Offers citation support (will generate the reference for your References / Works Cited page)
  • Look on the upper right on essays/articles for the quote icon

• The Reference Room is on the 1st floor of the Whittemore Library
  • Located in the back left next to the Reference Desk and the two printer stations
• Contains hundreds of authoritative encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, atlases and more
• Reference books do not circulate
• A Photocopier is available next to the printers outside the Reference Room
• The Reference Room is also the Silent Study Room - no noise allowed

Use WorldCat 

• a service of the OCLC, Inc. global library cooperative
• the largest library bibliographic catalog in the world

to find items in libraries near you

Run your search, then

• Make sure that your zip code is in the 'Enter your location' area
• You will see results of libraries near you that have that book / journal / other resource starting with the closest libraries
• Always reconfirm that a library still has the item you are interested in by clicking on the library's name (a link) which will take you to the library's catalog
• If you don't see the item clearly listed as being in their catalog, move on to the next closest library

If you succeed in finding a library fairly nearby that has the item you want, you can

• Contact that library to find out whether you can go in person to use, copy and/or borrow the item
• EASIEST: Use the citation information about the item to request it via FSU's Interlibrary Loan service