Resource Guide:
Personal and Family Finance

• Personal Finance 101 - Conversations
• Budgeting 101 - Online Course for Teachers and Students
• Bankruptcy Basics
• Education, Income, and Wealth
• Financial Decisions - Wants vs. Needs

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• iGrad: Financial Literacy
• Economics and Personal Finance Glossary and Flashcards
• Bloomberg
• Yahoo! Finance
• 360 Degrees of Financial Literacy
• Investor Guide
• The Motley Fool
• Market Watch
• Personal Finance – USA.gov
• CNN Money
• Market Watch – Personal Finance
• Kiplinger
• WiseBread
• Get Rich Slowly
• U.S. Census Bureau
• The Simple Dollar
• Finance and Investment @ Wharton
• Napkin Finance

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
• Financial Planning
• Budgets, Personal
• Saving and Investment
• Estate planning
• Wills
• Financial security
• Credit OR Consumer Credit
• Credit Ratings, United States
• Debt
• Income
• Securities
• Investments
• Stocks
• Loans
• Automobile loans
• Mortgage loans
• Consumer protection
• Home economics
• Retirement
• Retirement—Planning
• Health insurance
• Homeowners insurance
• Social Security, United States
• Life insurance

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• http://southernvirginia.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=ahl
• Business Source Complete
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Credo Reference
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• http://southernvirginia.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://global.factiva.com/en/sess/login.asp?xsid=S003cbsYXmnNdmnMDItMDIoMDAp5DByMU38ODJ9RcyqUUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUEA
• http://southernvirginia.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://firstsearch.oclc.org/autho=100129711:dbname=GPOfsip
• GreenFILE
• Hospitality & Tourism Complete
• JSTOR
• Legal Collection
• MasterFILE Premier
• Military & Government Collection
• Newspaper Source Plus
• Oxford Reference
• http://southernvirginia.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/pqdtglobal
• Proquest Major Dailies
• Regional Business News
• Statista
• Vente et Gestion
• Wiley Online Library
• Women’s Studies International

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
• Bloomberg Businessweek
• Journal of Personal Finance
• Bottom Line
• International Journal of Consumer Studies
• Consumer Reports
• Journal of Marketing Research
• Journal of Consumer Research
• American Economic Review
• The CPA Journal
• Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
• Elder Law Report
• Harvard Business Review
• Wall Street Journal
• Journal of Financial Resource Professionals
• Retirement Advisor

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.