LibGuides: Dollars & Sense: Personal Finance

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Universal Class

Over 500 CEU level courses covering 30 subject areas including personal finance, accounting, entrepreneurship, and much more. Learn from professional instructors who provide grading and feedback to track your learning process.

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Kiplinger's

MasterFILE Complete

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

Read Kiplinger's online for free with your library card.

1. Click on Masterfile Complete link above

2. Then, at the top left of the page, click Publications

3. In the lower search box, type kiplinger then click Browse

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.

1. Click on Business Source Complete link below

2. At the top left of the page, click Publications

3. In the lower search box, type consumer reports, then click Browse

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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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Deedee Lu

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 2020

“Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.”

William A. Ward

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.

Books

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
The New Rules of Divorce: Twelve Secrets to Protecting your Wealth, Health, and Happiness
Call Number: 306.893 NEWMAN 2020
ISBN: 9781982127930
10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget
Call Number: 332.024 10,001 2019
ISBN: 9781510752818
The 30-Day Money Cleanse: Take Control of your Finances, Manage your Spending, and De-stress your Money for Good
Call Number: 332.024 FEINSTEIN 2019
ISBN: 9781492665366
Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting your Financial Sh*t Together
Call Number: 332.024 DUNN 2019
ISBN: 9781501176333
Happy Go Money: Spend Smart, Save Right & Enjoy Life
Call Number: 332.024 LEONG 2019
ISBN: 9781770414723
Budgeting 101: From Getting Out of Debt and Tracking Expenses to Setting Financial Goals and Building your Savings, your Essential Guide to Budgeting
Call Number: 332.024 CAGAN 2018
ISBN: 9781507209073
Women and Money
Call Number: NEW 332.024 ORMAN 2018
ISBN: 9780812987614

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
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 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
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
Provides users with detailed, user-friendly "how-to" information covering all manner of home improvement/repair projects.
MasterFILE Complete
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.
Military & Government Collection
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
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
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.