Guides: Melissa's Storage Guide: Find Books

Catalogs

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HoyaSearch is the GU Library's discovery layer and catalog. HoyaSearch data comes from Georgetown and WRLC Consortium holdings, many of the Georgetown databases, and a variety of other resources. You can find books, journal and newspaper articles, encyclopedias, images and media, and primary sources in HoyaSearch.

Reading Call Numbers

PR
Read the first line in alphabetical order:
A, B, BF, C, D... L, LA, LB, LC, M, ML...

851
Read the second line as a whole number:
1, 2, 3, 45, 100, 101, 1000, 2000, 2430...

.P74
The third line is a combination of a letter and numbers. Read the letter alphabetically. Read the number as a decimal, e.g.:
.F64 = .64, .C724 = .724

Note: Some call numbers have more than one combination letter-number line.

2000
The last line is the year the book was published. Read in chronological order:
1843, 1972, 2010…

Book title: The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: From Richardson to George Eliot

Author: Leah Price

In the catalog: PR851 .P74 2000

On the book spine:

Browsing Areas

The following sections are good for browsing for books on English & American literature. These books are generally shelved on the 5th floor of Lauinger Library.

PE - English Language: Includes dictionaries, thesauri, and grammars

PN - Literature (General): Includes works on authorship, literary history, genres, and collections of literature

PR - English Literature: Includes British and Anglophone world literatures

PS - American Literature: Includes American and Canadian literatures

Sample Subject Headings

Type

Form

Example

Author as Subject

Last name, First name

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

National/Regional Literature

Nationality/Region + Literature

English literature

Irish literature

African literature (English)

Caribbean literature (English)

Literary Themes

Theme + in literature

Psychoanalysis in literature

Literature + theme

Literature - psychology

Theme + and literature

Psychoanalysis and literature

Literary Genre

Nationality + genre

English drama

English fiction

English poetry

English prose literature

Period History

Nation + history + time period

Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901