Evergreen Valley College Library
Outline of the Library of Congress Classification System
The Evergreen Valley College Library uses the Library of Congress Classification System to organize its collection. An outline of the class system is presented here with breakout notations of popular areas within the collection. For further assistance, please consult a reference librarian.
A—General Works E 300-453—Revolution to the Civil War, AE---Encyclopedias 1775-1861 E 398—Mexican War, 1846-1848 B—Philosophy, Psychology, Religion E 441-453—Slavery in the United States. BC—Logic Antislavery movements BF—Psychology E 456-655—Civil War period, 1861-65 E 660-738—Late nineteenth century, 1865- BH-BL—Aesthetics. Ethics BM—Judaism 1900 BP—Islam E 740-837—Twentieth Century
BQ—Buddhism BR—Christianity F 1-975—United States Local History BS—The Bible F 856-870--California BX—Denominations & Sects F 1001-1145.2—British America F 1170—French America F 1201-3799—Latin America, Spanish C—Auxiliary Sciences of History America CT—Biography F 1201-1392—Mexico F 1219.73—Aztecs D—History: General and Old World F1421-1440—Central America D-DJ, DL-DR—History of Europe F1435—Mayas (General) DJK-DK—Eastern Europe G—Geography, Anthropology, Recreation DS—Asia GB—Physical Geography DT—Africa GC—Oceanography DU—Australia, New Zealand GN—Anthropology GR—Folklore E-F—History: America GT—Manners and Customs. Dress, E 11-143—America Costume, Fashion. E 51-73—Pre-Columbian America GV—Recreation E 75-99—Indians of North America H—Social Science E 99—Indian Tribes and Cultures HA—Statistics E 101-135—Discovery of America and HB-HC—Economics early explorations HD—Land. Agriculture. Industry. E 151-889—United States HE—Transportation & Communication E 171-180—General HF—Commerce E 184-185.9—Elements in the population HG-HJ—Finance E 184. A-Z. e.g.: HM-HX—Sociology E184.C5—Chinese HQ—Family. Marriage. Women. E184.J3—Japanese HQ503-1064—Family. Marriage. E184.M5—Mexicans HQ1101-2030—Women. E184.V53—Vietnamese Feminism. E 184.5-185.98—African- Americans J—Political Science E 186-199—Colonial History E 201-298—The Revolution, 1775-83 K—Law QC—Physics K—Law of the United States QD—Chemistry KFC—Law of California QE—Geology QH—Natural History L—Education QK—Botany QL—Zoology
QL—Human anatomy M—Music QP—Physiology QP 771—Vitamins N—Fine Arts QR—Microbiology N—Visual arts (General) N 7430-7433—Techniques, R—Medicine composition, style, etc. R—General Medicine NA—Architecture RA—Public aspects of medicine NB—Sculpture RB—Pathology NC—Drawing. Design. RC—Internal Medicine, including ND—Painting diagnosis, individual diseases and NE—Print media special types of diseases NK—Decorative arts. Decoration & RG—Gynecology & obstetrics ornament. RJ—Pediatrics NX—Arts in general RM—Therapeutics. Pharmacology RT—Nursing P—Language and Literature P—Philology & linguistics S—Agriculture PA—Classical languages & literatures. Greek. Latin. T—Technology PC—Romance languages. Italian. French. Spanish. T-TK, TH, TP—Engineering, including PD-PF—Germanic languages. Old German. T 385—Computer graphics TK 5108.888—Web design Scandinavian. PE—English language TL—Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. PE 1111-12—Grammar TR—Photography PE 1449—Vocabulary TS—Manufactures PE 1591—Thesauri. Synonyms. TS720+—Jewelry making TT—Arts and crafts PE 1625-28—Dictionaries PG—Slavic. Baltic. TX—Home economics including nutrition, PJ-PK—Oriental/Indo-Iranian cookery PL—Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PN—General English literature including U—Military Science poetry & drama PQ—Romance literature V—V—Naval Science PR—English literature PS—American literature Z—Bibliography. Library Science PT—Germanic literature PZ—Children’s literature
Q—Science Q—Science (General) QA—Mathematics QA 76—Computer science QA 101-141—Elementary Mathematics. Arithmetic. QA 150-271—Algebra QA 303—Calculus QA 440-699—Geometry. Trigonometry. QB—Astronomy