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Use HAL, the online catalog, to locate books by author, title, subject and keyword for not only E. W. King Library and other HAL Libraries.
Sample HAL searches:| Find items by Word Search | pollution AND air quality |
| Find items by Subject Search | pollution--air--environmental aspects |
| Find items by Title Search (books or periodical titles) |
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Use reference books to gain background information, statistics, or other factual information on a topic.
| American Women | Ref HQ 1410.U5 A47 |
| Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology | Netlibrary |
| Crime in the United States 2000 | Ref HV 6787.A3 2000 |
| Digest of Education Statistics | Ref L11 .A6 2001 |
| Encyclopedia of Adolescence | Ref HQ 796.E58 1990 |
| Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History | Ref E 169.1.E624 2001 |
| Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family | Ref HQ 9 .E52 1995 |
| Encyclopedia of Sociology | Ref HM 425.E5 2000 |
| Statistical Abstract of the United States | Ready Ref HA202 .S73 |
| World Almanac and Book of Facts | Ready Ref. AY67 .W7 |
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