Science Library Classification System

The majority of the print materials found in the Science Library arranged according to the Library of Congress Classification System.

Books with a call number beginning with A-QC are found on the Upper Level.

Books with a call number beginning with QD-Z are found on the Lower Level.

Bound Journals are also shelved according to the Library of Congress system.
All bound journals are found on the Lower Level.

Reference Materials, Indexes and Abstracts, Current (unbound) journals, and leisure reading are found on the Main Level

Topographic and geological maps are found on the Main Level.

Selected Library of Congress Classification Schedule Classes for science-related materials:

G Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

• G General Geography, Atlases & Maps
• GA Surveys & Cartography
• GB Physical Geography
• GC Oceanography
• GE Environmental Sciences
• GF Human Ecology

H Social Sciences

• H General Social Sciences
• HA Statistics
• HD Agricultural Economics, Industrial Economics, & Labor

Q Science

• Q General Science
• QA Mathematics
• QB Astronomy
• QC Physics
• QD Chemistry
• QE Geology
• QH Natural History, Ecology, Marine Biology, Cell Biology,Genetics, Biochemistry, Experimental Biology, Molecular Biology
• QK Botany
• QL Zoology
• QP Physiology, Endocrinology, Neuroscience, Biochemistry
• QR Microbiology

• R Medicine

S Agriculture

• S Farm Management, Soil & Land Conservation
• SB Plant Culture & Horticulture
• SD Forestry & Forest Conservation

T Technology

• T General & Industrial Engineering
• TD Environmental Technology, Pollution Control
• TP Chemical Technology

Other Library of Congress Classification System Classes

A General Works

B Philosophy, Psychology, Religion

C Auxiliary Sciences of History

D History: General and Eastern Hemisphere

E-F History: America

J Political Science

K Law

M Music

L Education

N Fine Arts

P Language & Literature

U-V Military & Naval Science

Z Bibliography & Library Science