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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 H -- Social Sciences

  • H--Social sciences (General)
  • HA--Statistics
  • HB--Economic theory. Demography
  • HC--Economic history and conditions
  • HD--Industries. Land use. Labor
  • HE--Transportation and communications
  • HF--Commerce
  • HG--Finance
  • HJ--Public finance
  • HM--Sociology (General)
  • HN--Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
  • HQ--The family. Marriage. Women
  • HS--Societies: secret, benevolent, etc.
  • HT--Communities. Classes. Races
  • HV--Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
  • HX--Socialism. Communism. Anarchism

Subclasses

H1-99--Social sciences (General)

HA1-4737--Statistics

HA29-32--Theory and method of social science statistics

HA36-37--Statistical services.  Statistical bureaus

HA38-39--Registration of vital events.  Vital records

HA154-4737--Statistical data

HA154-155--Universal statistics

HA175-473--By region or country

HB1-3840--Economic theory.  Demography

HB71-74--Economics as a science.  Relation to other subjects

HB75-130--History of economics.  History of economic theory

Including special economic schools

HB131-147--Methodology

HB135-147--Mathematical economics.  Quantitative methods

Including econometrics, input-output analysis, game theory

HB201-206--Value.  Utility

HB221-236--Price

HB238-251--Competition.  Production.  Wealth

HB501--Capital.  Capitalism

HB522-715--Income.  Factor shares

HB535-551--Interest

HB601--Profit

HB615-715--Entrepreneurship.  Risk and uncertainty.  Property

HB801-843--Consumption.  Demand

HB846-846.8--Welfare theory

HB848-3697--Demography.  Population.  Vital events

HB3711-3840--Business cycles.  Economic fluctuations

HC10-1085--Economic history and conditions

HC79--Special topics

Including air pollution, automation, consumer demand, famines, flow of funds, etc.

HC92--Economic geography of the oceans (General)

HC94-1085--By region or country

HD28-9999--Industries.  Land use.  Labor

HD28-70--Management.  Industrial management

HD39-40.7--Capital.  Capital investments

HD41--Competition

HD45-45.2--Technological innovations.  Automation

HD47-47.4--Costs

HD49-49.5--Crisis management.  Emergency management.  Inflation

HD50-50.5--Delegation of authority.  Decentralization.  Span of control

HD56-57.5--Industrial productivity

HD58--Location of industry

HD58.7-58.95--Organizational behavior, change and effectiveness.  Corporate culture

HD59-59.6--Public relations.  Industrial publicity

HD60-60.5--Social responsibility of business

HD61--Risk in industry.  Risk management

HD62--Standardization.  Simplification.  Waste

HD62.2-62.8--Management of special enterprises

HD66-66.2--Work groups.  Team work in industry.  Quality circles

HD69--Other

Including business consultants, capacity, size of industries, etc.

HD72-88--Economic growth, development, planning

HD101-1395.5--Land use.  Land tenure

HD1286-1289--Communal ownership

HD1290-1291--Municipal ownership

HD1301-1313--Nationalization (Agrarian socialism)

HD1326-1329--Large holdings

HD1330-1331--Landlord and peasant

HD1332-1333.5--Land reform.  Agrarian reform

HD1334-1335--Consolidation of land holdings

HD1336-1339--Small holdings.  Peasant proprietors.  Parcellation

HD1361-1395.5--Real estate business

HD1401-2210--Agriculture

HD1428-1431--International cooperation

HD1470-1476--Size of farms

HD1478--Sharecropping

HD1483-1486--Agricultural associations, societies, etc.

HD1491-1491.5--Cooperative agriculture

HD1492-1492.5--Collective farms

HD1493-1493.5--Government owned and operated farms.  State farms.  Sovkhozes

HD1501-1542--Agricultural classes

Including farm tenancy, agricultural laborers

HD1549--Gleaning

HD1580--Reclamation of agricultural land.  Melioration

HD1635-1702--Utilization and culture of special classes of lands

Including pasture lands, water resources development

HD1711-1741--Irrigation

HD2321-4730.9--Industry

HD2329--Industrialization

HD2330--Rural industries

HD2331-2336--Home labor.  Home-based businesses

HD2337-2339--Sweatshops

HD2340.8-2346.5--Small and medium-sized businesses, artisans, handicrafts, trades

HD2350.8-2356--Large industry.  Factory system.  Big business

HD2365-2385--Contracting.  Letting of contracts

HD2421-2429--Trade associations

HD2709-2930.7--Corporations

Including international business enterprises, diversification, industrial concentration, public utilities

HD2951-3575--Cooperation.  Cooperative societies

HD3611-4730.9--Industrial policy.  The state and industrial organization

Including licensing of occupations and professions, subsidies, inspection, government ownership, municipal services

HD4801-8943--Labor.  Work.  Working class

HD4861-4895--Labor systems

HD4909-5100.9--Wages

HD5106-5267--Hours of labor

Including overtime, shift work, sick leave, vacations

HD5306-5474--Labor disputes.  Strikes and lockouts

HD5481-5630.7--Industrial arbitration.  Mediation  and conciliation

HD5650-5660--Employee participation in management.  Employee ownership.  Industrial democracy.  Works councils

HD5701-6000.9--Labor market.  Labor supply.  Labor demand

Including unemployment, manpower policy, occupational training, employment agencies

HD6050-6305--Classes of labor

Including women, children, students, middle-aged and older persons, minorities

HD6350-6940.7--Trade unions.  Labor unions.  Workers' associations

HD6941-6948--Employers' associations

HD6951-6957--Industrial sociology.  Social conditions of labor

HD6958.5-6976--Industrial relations

HD6977-7080--Cost and standard of living

HD7088-7252--Social insurance.  Social security.  Pension

HD7255-7256--Vocational rehabilitation.  Employment of people with disabilities

HD7260-7780.8--Industrial hygiene. Industrial welfare

HD7795-8027--Labor policy.  Labor and the state

HD8031--Labor in politics.  Political activity of the working class

HD8038--Professions (General).  Professional employees

HD8039--By industry or trade

HD8045-8943--By region or country

HD9000-9999--Special industries and trades

HD9000-9495--Agricultural industries

HD9502-9502.5--Energy industries.  Energy policy.  Fuel trade

HD9506-9624--Mineral industries.  Metal trade

HD9650-9663--Chemical industries

HD9665-9675--Pharmaceutical industry

HD9680-9714--Mechanical industries

Including electric utilities, electronic industries, and machinery

HD9715-9717.5--Construction industry

HD9720-9975--Manufacturing industries

HD9999--Miscellaneous industries and trades

HE1-9990--Transportation and communications

HE199-199.5--Freight (General)

HE199.9--Passenger traffic (General)

HE305-311--Urban transportation

HE323-328--Transportation geography.  Trade routes

HE331-380--Traffic engineering.  Roads and highways.  Streets

HE369-373--Traffic surveys (General)

HE374-377--Bridges

HE379-380--Tunnels.  Vehicular tunnels

HE380.8-971--Water transportation

HE380.8-560--Waterways

HE561-971--Shipping

HE730-943--Merchant marine.  Ocean shipping.  Coastwise shipping

HE1001-5600--Railroads.  Rapid transit systems

HE5601-5725--Automotive transportation

Including trucking, bus lines, and taxicab service

HE5746-5749--Stage lines

HE5751-5870--Ferries

HE5880-5990--Express service

HE6000-7500--Postal service.  Stamps.  Philately

HE7511-7549--Pneumatic service

HE7601-8700.9--Telecommunication industry.  Telegraph

HE8660-8688--Wireless telegraph.  Radiotelegraphy

HE8689-8700.95--Radio and television broadcasting

HE8701-9680.7--Telephone industry

HE9713-9715--Cellular telephone services industry.  Wireless telephone industry

HE9719-9721--Artificial satellite telecommunications

HE9723-9737--Signaling

HE9751-9756--Messenger service

HE9761-9900--Air transportation.  Airlines

HF1-6182--Commerce

HF294-343--Boards of trade.  Chambers of commerce.  Merchants' associations

HF1014--Balance of trade

HF1021-1027--Commercial geography.  Economic geography

HF1040-1054--Commodities.  Commercial products

HF1701-2701--Tariff.  Free trade.  Protectionism

HF3000-4055--By region or country

HF5001-6182--Business

HF5381-5386--Vocational guidance.  Career devlopment

HF5387-5387.5--Business ethics

HF5410-5417.5--Marketing.  Distribution of products

HF5419-5422--Wholesale trade

HF5428-5429.6--Retail trade

HF5429.7-5430.6--Shopping centers.  Shopping malls

HF5437-5444--Purchasing.  Selling.  Sales personnel.  Sales executives

HF5446-5459--Canvassing.  Peddling

HF5460-5469.5--Department stores.  Mail order business.  Supermarkets.  Convenience stores

HF5469.7-5481-- --Markets.  Fairs

HF5482-5482.4--Secondhand trade

HF5482.6-5482.65--Black market

HF5484-5495--Warehouses.  Storage

HF5520-5541--Office equipment and supplies

HF5546-5548.6--Office management

HF5548.7-5548.85--Industrial psychology

HF5549-5549.5--Personnel management.  Employment management

HF5601-5689--Accounting.  Bookkeeping

HF5691-5716--Business mathematics.  Commercial arithmetic

Including tables, etc.

HF5717-5734.7--Business communication

Including business report writing, business correspondence

HF5735-5746--Business records management

HF5761-5780--Shipment of goods.  Delivery of goods

HF5801-6182--Advertising

HG1-9999--Finance

HG178--Liquidity

HG179--Personal finance

HG201-1496--Money

HG258-312--Precious metals.  Bullion

HG315--Small coins

HG321-329--Mints.  Assaying

HG335-339--Counterfeiting

HG348-353.5--Paper money

HG361-363--Legal tender

HG381-395--International coinage

HG401-421--Bimetallism

HG451-1496--By region or country

HG1501-3550--Banking

HG1621-1638--Interest rates.  Interest tables

HG1641-1643--Bank loans.  Bank credit.  Commercial loans

HG1651-1654--Discount

HG1655--Acceptances

HG1656--Bank reserves.  Bank liquidity.  Loan loss reserves

HG1660--Bank accounts.  Bank deposits.  Deposit banking

HG1662--Insurance of deposits.  Deposit insurance

HG1685-1704--Drafts.  Checks

HG1706-1708--Accounting.  Bookkeeping

HG1709--Data processing

HG1710-1710.5--Electronic funds transfers

HG1722--Bank mergers

HG1723--Bank stocks.  Banking as an investment

HG1725-1778--Banks and the state.  State supervision of banks

HG1811-2351--Special classes of banks and financial institutions

HG2397-3550--By region or country

HG3691-3769--Credit.  Debt.  Loans

Including credit institutions, credit instruments, consumer credit, bankruptcy

HG3810-4000--Foreign exchange.  International finance.  International monetary system

HG4001-4285--Finance management.  Business finance.  Corporation finance

HG4301-4480.9--Trust services.  Trust companies

HG4501-6051--Investment, capital formation, speculation

HG4530--Investment companies.  Investment trusts.  Mutual funds

HG4538--Foreign investments

HG4551-4598--Stock exchanges

HG4621--Stockbrokers.  Security dealers.  Investment advisers

HG4701-4751--Government securities.  Industrial securities.  Venture capital

HG4900-5993--By region or country

HG6001-6051--Speculation

HG6105-6270.9--Lotteries

HG8011-9999--Insurance

HG8053.5-8054.45--Insurance for professions.  Malpractice insurance.  Professional liability insurance

HG8059--Business insurance

HG8075-8107--Insurance business.  Insurance management

HG8111-8123--Government policy.  State supervision

HG8205-8220--Government insurance

HG8501-8745--By region or country

HG8751-9295--Life insurance

HG8779-8793--Actuarial science.  Statistical theory and methodology applied to insurance

HG8799-8830--By class insured, by risk, by plan

HG8835-8899--Life insurance business.  Management

HG8901-8914--Government policy.  State supervision

HG8941-9200.5--By region or country

HG9201-9245--Mutual life insurance.  Assessment life insurance.  Fraternal life insurance

HG9251-9262--Industrial life insurance

HG9271--Child insurance.  Life insurance for children

HG9291-9295--Maternity insurance

HG9301-9343--Accident insurance

HG9371-9399--Health insurance

HG9651-9899--Fire insurance

HG9956-9969--Casualty insurance

HG9969.5-9999--Other insurance

Including automobile, burglary, credit, disaster, title insurance

HJ9-9940--Public finance

HJ9-99.8--Periodicals.  Serials.  By region or country

HJ210-240--History

HJ241-1620--By region or country

HJ2005-2216--Income and expenditure.  Budget

HJ2240-5908--Revenue.  Taxation.  Internal revenue

HJ2321-2323--Tax incidence.  Tax shifting.  Tax equity

HJ2326-2327--Progressive taxation

HJ2336-2337--Tax exemption

HJ2338--Taxation of government property

HJ2351--Inflation and taxation

HJ2351.4--Tax revenue estimating

HJ2361-3192.7--By region or country     

HJ3801-3844--Revenue from sources other than taxation

HJ3863-3925--Direct taxation

HJ4113-4601--Property tax

HJ4629-4830--Income tax

HJ4919-4936--Capitation.  Poll tax

HJ5309-5510--Administrative fees.  User charges.  License fees

HJ6603-7390--Customs administration

HJ7461-7980--Expenditures.  Government spending

HJ8001-8899--Public debts

HJ8052--Sinking funds.  Amortization

HJ8101-8899--By region or country

HJ9103-9695--Local finance.  Municipal finance

Including the revenue, budget, expenditure, etc. of counties, boroughs, communes, municipalities, etc.

HJ9701-9940--Public accounting.  Auditing

HM(1)-1281--Sociology

(HM1-299)--These are obsolete numbers no longer used by the Library of Congress

HM435-477--History of sociology.  History of sociological theory

HM461-473--Schools of sociology.  Schools of social thought

HM481-554--Theory.  Method.  Relations to other subjects

HM621-656--Culture

HM661-696--Social control

HM701--Social systems

HM706--Social structure

HM711-806--Groups and organizations

HM756-781--Community

HM786-806--Organizational sociology.  Organization theory

HM811-821--Deviant behavior.  Social deviance

HM826--Social institutions

HM831-901--Social change

HM1001-1281--Social psychology

HM1041-1101--Social perception.  Social cognition

Including perception of the self and others, prejudices, stereotype

HM1106-1171--Interpersonal relations.  Social behavior

HM1176-1281--Social influence.  Social pressure

HN1-995--Social history and conditions.  Social problems.  Social reform

HN30-39--The church and social problems

HN41-46--Community centers.  Social centers

HN50-995--By region or country

HQ1-2044--The Family.  Marriage.  Women

HQ12-449--Sexual life

HQ19-30.7--Sexual behavior and attitudes.  Sexuality

HQ31-64--Sex instruction and sexual ethics

HQ71-72--Sexual deviations

HQ74-74.2--Bisexuality

HQ75-76.8--Homosexuality.  Lesbianism

HQ77-77.2--Transvestism

HQ77.7-77.95--Transexualism

HQ79--Sadism.  Masochism.  Fetishism, etc.

HQ101-440.7--Prostitution

HQ447--Masturbation

HQ449--Emasculation.  Eunuchs, etc.

HQ450-472--Erotica

HQ503-1064--The family.  Marriage.  Home

HQ750-755.5--Eugenics

HQ755.7-759.92--Parents.  Parenthood

Including parent and child, husbands, fathers, wives, mothers

HQ760-767.7--Family size

HQ767.8-792.2--Children.  Child development

Including child rearing, child life, play, socialization, children's rights

HQ793-799.2--Youth.  Adolescents.  Teenagers

HQ799.5-799.9--Young men and women

HQ799.95-799.97--Adulthood

HQ800-800.4--Single people

HQ801-801.83--Man-woman relationships.  Courtship.  Dating

HQ802--Matrimonial bureaus.  Marriage brokerage

HQ802.5--Matrimonial advertisements

HQ803--Temporary marriage.  Trial marriage.  Companionate marriage

HQ804--Breach of promise

HQ805--Desertion

HQ806--Adultery

HQ811-960.7--Divorce

HQ961-967--Free love

HQ981-996--Polygamy

HQ997--Polyandry

HQ998-999--Illegitimacy.  Unmarried mothers

HQ1001-1006--The state and marriage

HQ1051-1057--The church and marriage

HQ1058-1058.5--Widows and widowers.  Widowhood

HQ1060-1064--Aged.  Gerontology (Social aspects).  Retirement

HQ1073-1073.5--Thanatology.  Death.  Dying

HQ1075-1075.5--Sex role

HQ1088-1090.7--Men

HQ1101-2030.7--Women.  Feminism

HQ1871-2030.7--Women's clubs

HQ2035-2039--Life skills.  Coping skills.  Everyday living skills

HQ2042-2044--Life style

HS1-3371--Societies: secret, benevolent, etc.

HS101-330.7--Secret societies

HS351-929--Freemasons

HS951-1179--Odd Fellows

HS1201-1350--Knights of Pythias

HS1355--Other societies

HS1501-2460.7--Other societies.  By classes

HS1501-1510--Benevolent and "friendly" societies and mutual assessment fraternities

HS1525-1560--Religious societies

HS1601-2265--Race societies

HS2275--Occupation societies

HS2301-2460.7--Political and "patriotic" societies

HS2501-3371--Clubs.  Clubs and societies for special classes

Including boys' societies, Boy scouts, girls' societies

HT51-1595--Communities.  Classes.  Races

HT51-65--Human settlements.  Communities

HT101-395--Urban groups.  The city.  Urban sociology

HT161-165--Garden cities.  "The city beautiful"

HT165.5-169.9--City planning

HT170-178--Urban renewal.  Urban redevelopment

HT201-221--City population

Including children in cities, immigration

HT231--Effect of city life

HT251-265--Mental and moral life

HT281--Recreation.  Amusements

HT321-325--The city as an economic factor.  City promotion

HT330-334--Metropolitan areas

HT351-352--Suburban cities and towns

HT361-384--Urbanization.  City and country

HT388--Regional economics.  Space in economics

HT390-395--Regional planning

HT401-485--Rural groups.  Rural sociology

HT601-1445--Classes

HT621-635--Origin of social classes

HT641-657--Classes arising from birth

Including royalty, nobility, commons

HT675-690--Classes arising from occupation

HT713-725--Caste system

HT731--Freedmen

HT751-815--Serfdom

HT851-1445--Slavery

HT1501-1595--Races

Including race as a social group and race relations in general

HV1-9960--Social pathology.  Social and public welfare.  Criminology

HV40-69--Social service.  Social work.  Charity organization and practice

Including social case work, private and public relief, institutional care, rural social work, work relief

HV85-525--By region or country

HV530--The church and charity

HV541--Women and charity

HV544--Charity fairs, bazaars, etc.

HV544.5--International social work

HV547--Self-help groups

HV551.2-639--Emergency management

HV553-639--Relief in case of disasters

HV560-583--Red Cross.  Red Crescent

HV599-639--Special types of disasters

HV640-645--Refugee problems

HV650-670--Life saving

HV675-677--Accidents.  Prevention of accidents

HV680-696--Free professional services

Including medical charities

HV697-4959--Protection, assistance and relief

HV697-3024--Special classes

HV697-700.7--Families.  Mothers.  Widow's ­pensions

HV701-1420.5--Children

HV835-847--Foundlings

HV873-887--Destitute, neglected, and abandoned children.  Street children

HV888-907--Children with disabilities

HV931-941--Fresh-air funds

HV959-1420.5--Orphanages.  Orphans

HV1421-1441--Young adults.  Youth.  Teenagers

HV1442-1448--Women

HV1449--Gay men.  Lesbians

HV1450-1494--Aged

HV1551-3024--People with disabilities

Including blind, deaf, ­people with physical and mental disabilities

HV3025-3174--Special classes.  By occupation

HV3025-3163--Mariners

HV3165-3173--Shop women, clerks, etc.

HV3174--Other.  By occupation

HV3176-3199--Special classes.  By race or ethnic group

HV4005-4013--Immigrants

HV4023-4470.7--Poor in cities.  Slums

HV4480-4630--Mendicancy.  Vagabondism.  Tramps.  Homelessness

HV4701-4890.9--Protection of animals.  Animal rights.  Animal welfare

HV4905-4959--Animal experimentation.  Anti-vivisection

HV4961-4995--Degeneration

HV5001-5720.5--Alcoholism.  Intemperance.  Temperance reform

HV5725-5770--Tobacco habit

HV5800-5840--Drug habits.  Drug abuse

HV6001-7220.5--Criminology

HV6035-6197--Criminal anthropology

Including criminal types, criminal psychology, prison psychology, causes of crime

HV6201-6249--Criminal classes

HV6250-6250.4--Victims of crimes.  Victimology

HV6251-6773.55--Crimes and offenses

HV6774-7220.5--Crimes and criminal classes

HV7231-9960--Criminal justice administration

HV7428--Social work with delinquents and criminals

HV7431--Prevention of crime, methods, etc.

HV7435-7439--Gun control

HV7551-8280.7--Police.  Detectives.  Constabulary

HV7935-8025--Administration and organization

HV8031-8080--Police duty.  Methods of protection

HV8035-8069--Special classes of crimes, offenses and criminals

HV8073-8079.35--Investigation of crimes.  Examination and identification of prisoners

HV8079.2-8079.35--Police social work

HV8079.5-8079.55--Traffic control.  Traffic accident investigation

HV8081-8099--Private detectives.  Detective bureaus

HV8130-8280.7--By region or country

HV8290-8291--Private security services

HV8301-9920.7--Penology.  Prisons.  Corrections

HV9051-9230.7--The juvenile offender.  Juvenile delinquency.  Reform schools, etc.

HV9261-9430.7--Reformation and reclamation of adult prisoners

HV9441-9920.7--By region or country

HV9950-9960--By region or country

HX1-970.7--Socialism.  Communism.  Anarchism

HX519-550--Communism/socialism in relation to special topics

HX626-696--Communism: Utopian socialism, collective settlements

HX806-811--Utopias.  The ideal state

HX821-970.9--Anarchism