ENGL 150 - Nickles
Career Resources
To find general career resources, check FLITE Library's Career Resource Guide.
Occupational Information Databases and Websites
O*Net Online: Occupational Online Network
The O*NET program is the nation's primary source of occupational information. O*NET OnLine was developed for the U.S. Department of Labor by the National Center for O*NET Development.
Career OneStop
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, this is a one
stop-shop to explore careers, seek out educational requirements, search salary information, receive advice on resumes and interviews, and search for a job.
Educational and Career Counseling [Ferris Only]
For those students exploring career options, contemplating a career change or changing academic majors, the first stage is self-assessment. In this stage, you explore your interests, skills, values and personality preferences as they relate to possible career and education alternatives. Once you have learned more about yourself, you can use that self-knowledge to identify occupations and/or majors of potential interest to you.
Books
For books, ebooks, and documents in the circulating collection (Main Stacks), use the Online Catalog. Search either using keyword or subject.
VGM's careers encyclopedia [electronic resource] / the editors of VGM Career Books
Occupational outlook handbookLIB USE ONLY - FSU Reference - First Floor - HF5382 .O25 2010-2011
Occupational outlook handbook [electronic resource]
Careers in Focus titles
Book Locations
- Main Collection: Call Numbers A - E 739 - 1st Floor
- Main Collection: Call Numbers E 740 - Z* - 3rd Floor
- Periodicals: Journals, Magazines and Newspapers - 2nd Floor
- Reserve Material and Reference Collection (Books do not circulate) - 1st Floor
- Government Documents Collection and *Temporary Housing: *Hs (Social Science), and *Ks (Law) - Lower Level
MeLCat
Use MeLCat to look up books in other Michigan Libraries. MelCat items will be delivered to the circulation desk and you will receive an Email when the items arrive.
Journal Articles
Databases
To find journal articles on a particular topic, use one or more of the databases available on the FLITE Web site. These databases provide indexing to thousands of journal titles.
General OneFile
A very large full-text database with over 50 million articles covering a wide variety of subjects, General OneFile indexes both newspapers and journals.
OmniFile Fulltext Select
This database is completely full-text and includes articles from subject fields including science, humanities, education and business. Coverage is from 1994 to the present.
Access World News
Access World News contains the full-text of nearly 1700 primarily English-language news sources from around the world
Suggestions to retrieve better/more results:
- Search topic as both a keyword and subject
- Combine terms with AND or OR
- Set date ranges limit to a specific time
- Use quotes for phrases
Other databases are sorted by subject from the Database Access page.
Please read Off Campus Database Access for information on searching from home.
Interlibrary Loan
Interlibrary Loan is a service provided by FLITE to request articles and books that FLITE does not own. Most often this service is used when searching for articles in FLITE databases, and you are directed through the "Find It" button to request the item. The first time you use this service, you will need to register with ILLiad, our Inter-Library Loan service. Click on the words "First Time Users" to register. You will complete a form, creating a username and password which will be used for future requests. Article requests are emailed to you in 5-10 business days (ferris email preferred), and books will be mailed to you if you are an off-campus student. On-campus students may pick up books at the Checkout Desk.
Citing Sources
Citation Style Guide: MLA (PDF)
An online version of FLITE's MLA Quick Reference handout, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism tutorials and self-help guides, plus a link to step-by-step citation assistance.
Citations - a FLITE guide
A guide to understanding citations, and a link to different online citation management tools that can help you input your sources and create your bibliographies.
Research Help
Librarians are available to help answer research questions and provide other library assistance. You can find librarians at the Oval Information Desk located on the First Floor of FLITE, by phone at 231-591-3602, by email (netref at (@) ferris.edu), or via chat http://www.ferris.edu/library/reference/helppagechat.html. More information is available at FLITE help.
Make an appointment for a research consultation with a librarian - one-on-one personal library help for any course.
Contact: Kristy Motz/ Email / Phone: 231-591-3625 / Office: FLITE 140H
Don't forget, you are welcome to come to the Oval Information Desk and ask for help any time. You can also call us 231-591-3602 or chat with us.
Last update: November 2, 2011