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The University of Massachusetts Amherst

Public Relations

Library material for Journalism majors concentrating in Public Relations.

Finding Books, eBooks, Video, Articles, Archival Material & More

This is our all-in-one "discovery layer" called EBSCO Discovery Search (EDS) which searches across the 5 college library catalog, our local digital repositories, as well as many (not all) of our subscription databases.

 

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To find out more about how to use EDS, check out these instructional videos
What is EDS - Let's Learn EDS!

EDS Basics - Let’s Learn EDS!
Call Number Searching - Let’s Learn EDS!
Subject Searching - Let’s Learn EDS!

 

Subject Searches

Like most U.S. academic libraries, the UMass Amherst Libraries uses the Library of Congress (LC) classification system of subject headings, each of which has a unique call number range. Public Relations is a subset of the Social Sciences (H) and can be in the subclass range (HD 28-70) Management. Industrial management. Within the HD range you might find these narrower topics useful.

 

Library of Congress Call # Subjects
HD49-49.5 Crisis management. Emergency management.
Inflation
HD58.7-58.95 Organizational behavior, change and
effectiveness. Corporate culture
HD59-59.6 Public relations. Industrial publicity
HD60-60.5 Social responsibility of business
HD61 Risk in industry. Risk management

Helpful Books for Public Relations Courses