Use One Search to search for specific items in the collection, or more narrowly-defined subjects.
CALL NUMBER (how to read the Library of Congress call numbers)
Example:
BF 11.H39
BF= Subject Area
11= Location within the subject- Like a Street Address – Numbers go from 1-9999 (so: 11 is in beginning of BF section, 9879 is at end of BF section)
.H39= (shows where the book sits on the shelf in the BF11 area) -stands for author’s name
Subject | Call # Range |
Philology, Linguistics, Classical Philology, Classical Linguistics | P-PA |
Modern Foreign Languages | PB-PH |
Dictionaries | PE |
German Dictionaries | PF |
African Writers | PL |
Literature: General, Quotations, Etc. | PN |
French, Italian, Spanish, Mexican, Latin American, & Portuguese Literatures | PQ |
English Literature | PR |
American Literature | PS |
German Literature | PT |
Juvenile Belles Lettres | PZ |
Available on Cravens Floors 8 & 9
Subject | Call # range |
Book Review Index | Online |
Cambridge Histories - Literature | Online |
Contemporary Literary Criticism | Online |
Dictionary of Literary Biography | Online |
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory | PN 81 .E43 and Online |
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations | PN 6080 O95 and Online |
Oxford English Dictionary | PE 1625 .O87 and Online |
Reader's Guide to Women's Studies | Online |
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism | Online |
For citing sources:
Subject | Call # range |
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers | LB2369 .G53 in Ready Ref. and Online |
The library also has a page devoted to Citation Guides and Style Manuals.