| Subject | Call # range |
| Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory | PN81 .E43 |
| Oxford English Dictionary | PE1625 .O87 and Online |
| Oxford Dictionary of Quotations | PN6080 .O95 |
| Columbia Grainger Index to Poetry | PN1022 .C63 |
| Dictionary of Literary Biography | PN451 .D54 and Online |
| Contemporary Authors | PS129 .C6 |
| Reader's Guide to Women's Studies | Z7961 .R43 1998 |
| Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory | PN98 .W64 E53 1997 |
| Southern Writers | PS261 .S59 |
| Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism | PN761 .N5 |
| Contemporary Literary Criticism | PN771 .C59 |
| Twentieth Century Literary Criticism | PN771 .T85x |
| Southern Writers | PS261 .S59 |
| Book Review Index | Z1035 .A1 B6 |
| Book Review Digest | Z1219 .C96 |
| Biography and Genealogy Master Index | Online |
Works (printed and manuscript) in the Kentucky Building by and about Kentucky authors (including Janice Holt Giles, Alice Hegan Rice, Jesse Stuart and Robert Penn Warren)
For citing sources:
| Subject | Call # range |
| MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers | LB2369 .G53 in Ready Ref. and Online |
Information on places to send creative writing, book manuscripts, poetry:
| Subject | Call # range |
| Literary Market Place | PN161 .L51x |
| Writer's Market | PN161 .W83 |
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 European Languages | PB-PH |
| Dictionaries (of all kinds, including the OED, Thesauri, Slang...) | 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 |
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