***Library of Congress (LC) Classification***

With LC, the call number always starts with a letter (or two), followed by numbers.  The letter indicates the subject.  The following is a general outline of the LC system.

A	General Works
B 	Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
B - BJ 	Philosophy. Psychology
BL, BM, BP, BQ Religion: Religions, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism
BR - BV 	Religion: Christianity, Bible
BX 	Religion: Christian Denominations
C 	Auxiliary Sciences of History
D 	History: General and Old World
D - DJ 	History (General), History of Europe, Part 1
DL - DR 	History of Europe, Part 2
DJK - DK 	History of Eastern Europe (General). Soviet Union, Poland
DS 	History of Asia
DT - DX 	History of Africa, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
E - F 	History: America (Western Hemisphere)
G 	Geography. Maps. Anthropology. Recreation
H 	Social Sciences
H - HJ 	Social Sciences: Economics
HM - HX 	Social Sciences: Sociology
J 	Political Science
K 	Law
K 	Law (General)
KD 	Law of the United Kingdom and Ireland
KDZ, KG - KH Law of the Americas, Latin America and the West Indies
KE 	Law of Canada
KF 	Law of the United States
KJ - KKZ 	Law of Europe
KJV - KJW Law of France
KK - KKC 	Law of Germany

L 	Education
L 	Education (General) 
LA 	History of Education 
LB 	Theory and practice of education 
LC 	Special aspects of education 
LD 	Individual Institutions - United States 
LE 	Individual Institutions - America (except United States) 
LF 	ndividual Institutions - Europe 
LG 	Individual Institutions - Asia, Africa, Indian Ocean Islands, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands 
LH 	College and school magazines and papers 
LJ 	Student fraternities, United States 
LT 	Textbooks

M 	Music and Books on Music
N 	Fine Arts
P 	Language and Literature
P 	General Philology and Linguistics
PA 	Classical Languages and Literatures
PB - PH 	Modern European Languages
PG 	Russian Literature
PJ 	Oriental Philology and Literature
PK 	Indo-Iranian Philology and Literature
PL - PM 	Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania, Hyperborean, Indian, and Artificial Languages
PN, PR-PS, PZ General Literature. English and American Literature. Fiction in English. Juvenile belles lettres
PQ 	Romance Literatures
PT 	Germanic Literatures
Q 	Science
R 	Medicine
S 	Agriculture
T 	Technology
U 	Military Science
V 	Naval Science
Z 	Bibliography. Library Science

Last updated: 1 May 2007