Economics

Library Materials

Many useful resources are available in the College of the Redwoods Library, including books, reference books, eBooks, and videos. Additional resources may be available at the Del Norte or Humboldt County Libraries and Cal Poly Humboldt Library. Visit those libraries' websites to search their catalogs. Use OneSearch to find books and other resources about your topic in the CR library and selected, college-level resources on the web.

Credo Reference is an extensive online collection of reference materials and resources available to CR students and staff.  In this guide, you will find many links that pull rom Credo's resources.  However, you can also search Credo's Business, Finance, and Economics resources directly by typing your research terms in the box below.

College of the Redwoods Library Call Numbers

Books in the College of the Redwoods library are filed by the Library of Congress system that uses letter-number combinations assigned by subject, so that most books about the same subject will be filed together on the shelf. HSU Library uses this same system, and so do most colleges and universities in the United States. Browse the titles on the shelf in the sections listed below for relevant research topics. 

• HB – Economic theory / Demography
• HC – Economic history and conditions
• HD – Industries / Land use / Labor
• HF – Commerce
• HG – Finance
• HJ – Public finance

Reference books include encyclopedias, handbooks, manuals, guides, dictionaries, and compilations of resources such as primary documents. Reference books will provide a good overview of your topic in a short and well organized way, and they are good for getting started with any research assignment. 

Printed reference materials must be used in the library, but usually you will only need to consult these sources briefly. 

DVDs are located on the shelves beside the Reference Desk. They can be checked out, or they can be viewed on the computers and laptops available in the library. Check out headphones at the circulation desk.