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Call Numbers (Library of Congress Classification)

How to find books and other materials using their Library of Congress call numbers.

Class A - General Works

  • AC--Collections. Series. Collected works
  • AE--Encyclopedias
  • AG--Dictionaries and other general reference works
  • AI--Indexes
  • AM--Museums. Collectors and collecting
  • AN--Newspapers
  • AP--Periodicals
  • AS--Academies and learned societies
  • AY--Yearbooks. Almanacs. Directories
  • AZ--History of scholarship and learning. The humanities

Subclasses

AC1-999--Collections. Series. Collected works

AC1-195--Collections of monographs, essays, etc.

AC1-8--American and English

AC9-195--Other languages

AC200--Collections for Jewish readers

AC801-895--Inaugural and program dissertations

AC901-995--Pamphlet collections

AC999--Scrapbooks

AE1-(90)--Encyclopedias

AE5-(90)--By language

AG2-600--Dictionaries and other general reference works

AI1-21--Indexes

AM1-(501)--Museums. Collectors and collecting

AM10-100--By country

AM111-160--Museology. Museum methods, technique, etc.

AM200-(501)--Collectors and collecting
 

AN--Newspapers

AP1-(271)--Periodicals

AP101-115--Humorous periodicals

AP200-230--Juvenile periodicals

AP(250)-(265)--Periodicals for women

AP(270)-(271)--Periodicals for Blacks

AS1-945--Academies and learned societies

AS2.5-4--International associations, congresses, conferences, etc.

AS11-785--By region or country

AY10-2001--Yearbooks. Almanacs. Directories

AY10-29--Annuals

AY30-1730--Almanacs

AY2001--Directories. General works on the compilation of directories, etc.

Class directories by subject in B-Z

AZ(20)-999--History of scholarship and learning. The humanities

AZ101-(181)--Philosophy. Theory

AZ191-193--Evaluation

AZ200-361--History

AZ501-908--By region or country