Resource Guide:
Personal and Family Finance
Selected Call Numbers
Call numbers are the shelving locations for each item. Browsing in the following areas of the library will help you find materials for your topic.
| Topic | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Personal finance | HG 179 |
| Vocational guidance. Career development. | HF 5381–5386 |
| Money | HG 201–1496 |
| Mortgage loans | HG 2040.15 |
| Credit. Debt. Loans. | HG 3691–3769 |
| Investment. Capital formation. Speculation | HG 4501–6051 |
| Insurance | HG 8011–9999 |
| Life style | HQ 2042–2044 |
| Trusts and Trustees | KF 726–745 |
| Estate Planning | KF 746–750 |
Selected Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Finance, Personal
- Financial literacy
- Budgets, Personal
- Saving and Investment
- Estate planning
- Wills
- Financial security
- Credit
- Debt
- Income
- Investments
- Loans
- Automobile loans
- Mortgage loans
- Consumer protection
- Home economics
- Retirement
- Retirement—Planning
- Health insurance
- Homeowners insurance
- Life insurance
Selected Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Risk Less and Prosper | HG 4521 .B5643 2011 |
| The Appeal of Insurance | HG 8027 .A66 2010 |
| Discover the wealth within you: a financial plan for creating a rich and fulfilling life | HG 179 .E344 2003 |
| Financial Peace Revisited | HG 179 .R3152 2003 |
| The Wall Street Journal guide to planning your financial future: the easy-to-read guide to planning for retirement | Front Desk HG 179 .M658 2002 |
| Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing: what the rich invest in that the poor and middle class do not! | Front Desk HG 4910 .K54 2000 |
| The Living Trust: the failproof way to pass along your estate to your heirs without lawyers, courts, or the probate system | KF 734 .A93 |
| The Three Boxes of Life and How to Get Out of Them | HF 5381 .B63512 1981 |
| Big Money Thinks Small: Biases, blind spots, and smarter investing | eBook |
| The Memo: 5 rules for your economic liberation | eBook |
| Money Assassins: How they stole your financial freedom and how you can get it back | eBook |
| Make Your Paycheck Last: How to create a budget you can live with | eBook |
| Young Money: 4 proven actions to design your wealth while you still can | eBook |
Selected Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
- Academic Search Complete
- America: History and Life
- Business Source Complete
- Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
- Credo Reference
- Factiva
- GPO
- GreenFILE
- Hospitality & Tourism Complete
- JSTOR
- Legal Collection
- MasterFILE Premier
- Military & Government Collection
- Newspaper Source Plus
- Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global
- Proquest Major Dailies
- Wiley Online Library
- Women’s Studies International
Selected Journals and Magazines
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. YOu can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Applied Financial Economics
- Journal of Financial Planning
- Journal of Personal Finance
- International Journal of Consumer Studies
- Journal of Marketing Research
- Journal of Consumer Research
- American Economic Review
- The CPA Journal
- Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
- Elder Law Report
- Journal of Financial Resource Professionals
- Retirement Advisor
Selected Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.