Somalia
15 years ago
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Book Location
Last friday, I was on the St. Cloud State's library website searching for books about race in sports. I came across an intriguing book titled "New Game Plan for College Sport". I looked into the selection and saw that it was available and located down in the basement of the Miller Center. I have never been in the basement of the Miller Center until then. When I got down there, I realized that it was a much larger place than what I had imagined. I'm talking about row after row after row of books. I luckily jotted down the locatoin code which read GV 351 .N48 2006. I'm not sure what all of that meant but I had an idea of why it was there...to help find the location of the book. As I was walking past the book shelves, I noticed that each shelf had a two letter code with numbers and realized that I needed to find the row with GV 351. I then easily located the book shelf labeled GV which also included the number 351. As I started searching for my book, I came across GV 351 .N 67 and knew I was getting closer. As I continued down the row, I noticed a decently sized black book which caught my eye. The title............."New Game Plan for College Sport". There it was! I found my first book ever in the Miller Center!
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Hi Derek,
ReplyDeleteGreat post! Congratulations on finding your book!
To answer your question about call numbers, here is the Library of Congress "cheat sheet", which will decode all of those two letter codes:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/
You can click on the link of each main call number to see how LOC subdivides each subject.
Once you use the SCSU library on a regular basis, you will automatically know some call numbers like the back of your hand. I will always remember that anything in the "TX" range deals with cooking, "L" is Education and Teaching (I think of "L" for "Learning"), "M" is Music, "N" is art...well, I guess I know because I spend a lot of time in libraries... :) But the nice thing about book collections is once you know the call number system, if you want to bypass the OPAC, all you need is a map to the library to find what you want.