Finding books, videos, magazines and journals 

XPLORE shows what books, videos, and journals, are available at Xavier. To see if Xavier has a journal, do a title search and enter the name of the journal.

To find a video do a keyword or subject search and limit by Location: "audiovisual material"  Click here for an example of videos on training.

You can request books directly using your XU All-Card.

Selected books

Annuals

The (year) Annual, Developing Human Resources Xavier University has 1972-present Ref HM 134 .A55 year 
The ... McGraw-Hill team and organization development source book 1996-present Ref HF5549.5.T7 M33 
The ... McGraw-Hill training and performance sourcebook 1996-present Ref HF5549.5.T7 M32 

Dictionaries

The Human Resources Glossary Ref HF 5549 .A23 T73 1991 
The Trainer's Dictionary Ref HF 5449 .A23 R49 1993 

Handbooks

A Counselor's Guide to Career Assessment Instruments HF5381.7 .C68 1994 
The ASTD Training and Development Handbook by Craig (on reserve) HF 5549.5 T7 T6648 1996 
Training and Development Yearbook Ref HF 5549.5 .T7T 6653 

Selected Periodicals

Academy of Management Journal
Career Development Quarterly 
Creative Training Techniques* 
Educational Technology Research and Development 
HR Magazine 
Harvard Business Review 
Human Relations 
Human Resource Development Quarterly 
Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 
Journal of Management Education 
Journal of Organizational Behavior Management 
Lakewood Report on Technology for Learning* 
OD Practitioner* 
Organization Development Journal (indexed PsycINFO) 
Performance Improvement 
Performance Improvement Quarterly 
Personnel Journal 
Personnel Psychology 
Public Personnel Management 
Training 
Training and Development 
Training Research Journal 

InfoLine Ref HF 55.49 5 .I54* Inforline Title List

Note: the asterisk (*) indicates it is not indexed. Check individual issues. 

Periodicals may be in paper, or microform or full-text. 

To check a journal title to see if full text is available go to JOURNALS @ XU.

Finding Articles

Selected databases: Use to find articles on a topic or by an author. 

Obtaining copies of articles in library databases

Off-Campus Access Information

Books & Articles Not at XU

Articles not available at the Xavier Library can be ordered through Document Delivery.  Fill out an article request form for each article that you want, filling in all the information. Online request forms are available from the Library's home page. Remember it can take 1-2 weeks to get an article through this service.

You will be notified by email when materials borrowed through document delivery services arrive. Articles and other copied documents are delivered electronically. Your email notification message will contain an Internet addresss and password that you can use to retrieve your document. Please retrieve these electronic documents within two weeks. There is no charge for this service. 

Books that Xavier doesn't own can be ordered through OhioLINK using your all-card.  This takes 3-5 days. Book not available from OhioLINK may be ordered from Document Delivery and may take 1-2 weeks.

Help

Library User's Guide

Library Locations - will answer many of your questions about where materials are located in the library

See xu.tutor four tutorials that will help you improve your searching for information.

Librarian Contact

Vicki Young, 513 745-4804 youngv@xavier.edu