LibGuides: Dollars & Sense: Personal Finance

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Kiplinger's

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Kiplinger's provides clear, concise financial information for all ages.

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Consumer Reports

Read Consumer Reports online for free with your library card.

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Consumer Reports Money Advisor

Read Consumer Reports Money Adviser online for free with your library card.

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Books online

Examples of books available online include:

Kiplinger's Practical Guide to Your Money
Love & Money: a Life Guide for Financial Success
How to Care for Your Parents' Money While Caring for Your Parents

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Welcome

Welcome to Dollars and Sense!

Here you’ll find books, journal articles, websites, and information all designed to help you develop your own personal guidelines regarding the spending and saving of your time and money.

September 2022

“Money is a great servant but a bad master.”

Francis Bacon

Books

Money Magic: An Economist's Secrets to More Money, Less Risk, and a Better Life
Call Number: 332.024 KOTLIKOFF 2022
ISBN: 9780316541954
Financial Security for Dummies
Call Number: 332.024 TYSON 2022
ISBN: 9781119780786
First-Time Home Buyer: the Complete Guide to Avoiding Rookie Mistakes
Call Number: 643.12 TRENCH 2021
ISBN: 9780997584783
Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole
Call Number: 332.024 ALICHE 2021
ISBN: 9780593232743
Making College Pay: An Economist Explains How to Make a Smart Bet on Higher Education
Call Number: 378.38 AKERS 2021
ISBN: 9780593238530
Know Yourself, Know Your Money: Discover Why You Handle Money the Way You Do, and What to Do About It!
Call Number: 332.024 CRUZ 2021
ISBN: 9781942121312
Think Like a Breadwinner: A Wealth-building Manifesto for Women Who Want to Earn More (and Worry Less)
Call Number: 650.1082 BARRETT 2021
ISBN: 9780593327890
How a Mother Should Talk about Money with Her Daughter: A Step-by-step Guide to Budgeting, Saving, Investing, and Other Important Lessons
Call Number: 332.024 MCCLANAHAN 2020
ISBN: 9781621537427
Personal Finance 101: From Saving and Investing to Taxes and Loans, An Essential Primer on Personal Finance
Call Number: 332.024 MILL 2020
ISBN: 9781507214350
The Path: Accelerating your Journey to Financial Freedom
Call Number: 332.024 MALLOUK 2020
ISBN: 9781642937015
Money Hacks: 275+ Ways to Decrease Spending, Increase Savings, and Make your Money Work for You!
Call Number: 332.024 ROWAN 2020
ISBN: 9781507214077
The Mindful Millionaire: Overcome Scarcity, Experience True Prosperity, and Create the Life You Really Want
Call Number: 332.024 PETERSON 2020
ISBN: 9781250261915
Die with Zero: Getting All You Can From your Money and your Life
Call Number: 332.024 PERKINS 2020
ISBN: 9780358099765
Blue-Collar Cash: Love your Work, Secure your Future, and Find Happiness for Life
Call Number: 338.04 RUSK 2020
ISBN: 9780062989604
The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan: Discover the Joy of Spending Less, Sharing More, and Living Generously
Call Number: 332.024 CLARK 2020
ISBN: 9781982113797

Websites

Major Consumer Protections Announced in Response to COVID-19
The National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) Digital Library's continuously updated page of links to newly implemented consumer protections responding to COVID-19.
NCLC Digital Library Financial Resources
NCLC Digital Library's offerings of free and discounted financial resources during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Practical Money Skills
Financial skills for everyone.
Budget worksheets
From the Federal Trade Commission to help you take control of your money.
Your Money and Your Life series
From National Public Radio.
Get Rich Slowly
Devoted to sensible personal finance.
Smart About Money
From the National Endowment for Financial Education.
Saving and Investing
From the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Insurance Smarts

Insurance Information Institute
Auto, Life, Business, Disaster, and more. También en español.
InsureUonline
designed to help consumers as their lives change. Provides tips about avoiding scams. También en español.

Journal Articles

You have a free subscription to thousands of magazines and journals online with your library card. Databases to search include:

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the ultimate collection of bibliographic and full text content. Business Source Complete contains far more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any other database currently available.
Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast. Full text is provided from leading hobby and craft magazines, including Bead & Button, Creative Knitting, FineScale Modeler, Quilter's World and many more.
Home Improvement Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Provides users with detailed, user-friendly "how-to" information covering all manner of home improvement/repair projects.
MasterFILE Complete This link opens in a new window
MasterFILE Complete offers the largest collection of popular full-text magazines, reference books and other highly-regarded sources from the world's leading publishers. Covering virtually every general interest subject area, it also includes an extensive collection of photos, maps and flags.
Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new window
Mergent Intellect is a flexible web-based application that features a deep collection of worldwide business information that enables companies to generate insightful business intelligence. Coupling Mergent's expertise in developing products for the reference marketplace with Dun & Bradstreet's private company database, Mergent Intellect offers new and existing clients a unique opportunity to access private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles and much more.
Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new window
Offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government from periodicals and academic journals. The collection provides full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles. Publications covered in this database include Air Force Comptroller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defense Studies, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, National Review, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
Religion & Philosophy Collection This link opens in a new window
Full-text coverage of over 300 titles that cover topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.