Keeley Library Student Pages:
Family & Consumer Science
For background on the subject, consult general encyclopedias such as Americana, Britannica, Colliers, World Book, etc. Look for articles on "Family," "Home Economics" or "Homemaking." To locate materials in the Keeley Library, see the section on Finding Your Way Around the Library.
Internet Resources
Library Catalog
To locate items in the library catalog, search in iBistro. You may want to limit your search to search only the Keeley Library, instead of all of the SAILS libraries. The following subjects are just some suggestions for your search:
- Babysitters
- Beauty culture
- Beauty, Personal
- Child care
- Child development
- Child rearing
- Children--Health and hygiene
- Children--Nutrition
- Consumer education
- Cookery
- Cosmetics
- Domestic relations
- Dressmaking
- Dwellings--Maintenance and repair
- Family
- Family life education
- Finance, Personal
- Food
- Hairdressing
- Home economics
- House furnishings
- Infants (Newborn)
- Interior decoration
- Marriage
- Nutrition
- Parent and child
- Parenting
- Problem families
- Repairing--Amateurs' manuals
- Sewing
SAILS Databases
As members of SAILS, Durfee students and teachers can access journal and newspaper articles as well as online reference books, from the library's computers and from home. Simply go to the online catalog page, access the online catalog, and click on .
Selected Reference Books
- Complete handyman do-it-yourself encyclopedia
- A consumer's dictionary of food additives
- A dictionary of cosmetology and related sciences
- Dictionary of international food & cooking terms
- Encyclopedia of child care and guidance
- Encyclopedia of nutrition & cooking
- McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of food, agriculture & nutrition
- The NutriBase nutrition facts desk reference
- Popular science homeowner's encyclopedia
- The practical handyman's encyclopedia
- Singer sewing book
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