Searching Horizon

Horizon is the Giovale Library's online catalog. The catalog lists books, journals, media, and other materials owned by Giovale Library.

You cannot search the online catalog for articles. Use databases, such as EBSCOhost and/or ProQuest for article searches.

Horizon offers three different ways to locate library materials:

Basic

This page lets you do both Keyword and Alphabetical searching from one search page
To do a Basic search:
1. Choose the type of search you want from the drop-down index
2. Enter your term(s) in the search window
3. Click on "go

Keyword(s) Search

• Keyword(s): Use this search if you do not know the correct Subject Heading of your topic! Enter any word or words that best describe your topic. The system will retrieve any record(s) that contain the word(s). If no records are found, repeat your search using other words.
• Author Keyword: Includes: corporate authors (telephone will retrieve Bell Telephone Symposium on Biological Control, 1969. Boston)
• Title Keyword: Enter word(s) of the title. The system will retrieve all items that contain the word(s) in the title.
• Subject Keyword You must use the Library of Congress Subject Headings to retrieve all items available on your topic.

Alphabetical Search

•Author Alphabetical List: Enter last name first name : Faulkner William
•Title Alphabetical List: Enter the correct title of the item. No need to enter initial articles (a, an, the).
•Subject Alphabetical List: This search uses controlled vocabulary; the Library of Congress Subject Headings! In a subject search only those records will be located where your search term appears in the subject field of that record.

The Search results are displayed in alphabetical order. You can scroll the list and choose the entry you want.

Advanced

Use the Boolean operators to focus your search!
Example:

The drop down window offers more search options!

Numeric

The numeric search lets you look for items by the following numbers:
• LC Call Number
• ISBN
• ISSN
• Gov Doc Number
• Music Number
• OCLC Number
• Bib Number

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eBooks

What is an eBook?

The term eBook applies to published materials, such as reference books, scholarly monographs, and consumer books that have been converted into digital format for electronic distribution. eBooks are much more powerful than traditional books. eBooks are available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week--from any location in the world. (from netLibrary)

NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (ebooks) which also uses the LC Subject Headings. You must register from a PC located on Westminster Campus. Once you are registered, you can access netLibrary from anywhere. All netlibrary books are listed in the Horizon catalog.

Ebrary provides online access to over 13,000 authoritative titles with concentrations in Business & Economics, Computers & Technology, Humanities, the Social Sciences, and                                 more. Most books are listed in Horizon, our online catalog.

Safari Tech Books Online gives you online access to 165 technical books in the following categories:

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Books of Interest

Books:

The innovator's solution: creating and sustaining successful growth / Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor. HD 53 .C495 2003

Managing business risk / consultant editor, Adam Jolly ; foreword by George Cox. HD 61 .M362 2003

Going the distance: why some companies dominate and others fail / Kevin Kennedy, Mary Moore.
HD 57.7 .K465 2003

Good to great : why some companies make the leap and others don't / Jim Collins. HD 57.7 .C645 2001

Thriving on chaos: handbook for a management revolution / Tom Peters. HD 70 .U5 P426 1987

eBooks:

Rebuilding the corporate genome: unlocking the real value of your business / Johan C. Aurik, Gillis J. Jonk, Robert E. Willen.

Electronic enterprise: strategy and architecture / Andrew Targowski.

The power of design for Six Sigma / Subir Chowdhury.

Strategic management / Philip Sadler.

The company of the future: how the communications revolution is changing management / Frances Cairncross.

The Welch way: 24 lessons from the world's greatest CEO / Jeffrey A. Krames.

Managing for the short term: the new rules for running a business in a day-to-day world / Chuck Martin.

Management stripped bare: what they don't teach you at business school / Jo Owen.

The Jack Welch lexicon of leadership / Jeffrey A. Krames.

Boss talk: top CEOs share the ideas that drive the world's most successful companies / the editors of the Wall Street Journal ; introduction by Tom Peters.

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