Call Numbers in SSHEL
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign uses multiple classification systems to organize library materials by call number. The Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library (SSHEL) uses the Dewey Decimal Classification system and the Library of Congress Classification system. These classification systems are used to create call numbers, which are a combination of numbers and letters that provide a unique description of each item in a library collection. Call numbers help you locate a specific book on the library shelves. Additionally, if you have an item that is particularly helpful to your research, browsing material with similar call numbers or browsing items beside the item on a shelf will help you find additional relevant material. [ ] Brackets indicate that responsibility for collecting the subject is shared with another library.
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Call Number Chart
Search for call numbers in SSHEL using the following table.
| Dewey | Subject | Library of Congress (LC) |
|---|---|---|
| 016 | Bibliographies – Subject (Dewey: 016 + classification number, e.g. 016.378 for a higher education bibliography) | Z5051-7999 |
| B. | Biography | |
| [920] | General biography | CT21-9999 |
| 930 | Anthropology; Archaeology; General History of Ancient World | GN1-890; CC1-960; D51-95 |
| 960 | Africa | DT1-3415 |
| 940-999 | Anthropology, Archaeology, social conditions, and history of specific countries | D-DU; CC; GN301-674; GN700-890 |
| [410] | Linguistics; Anthropological linguistics | P1-1091; P35-35.5 |
| 573 | Physical Anthropology | GN49-298 |
| 950 | Asia (including the Middle East and Siberia) | DS1-937 |
| 931 | China | DS741-749.76; GN855.C6 |
| 932 | Egypt | DT57-65; GN865.E3 |
| 940 | Europe (including Russia) | D-DR |
| 938 | Greece | DF10-289; GN815-816 |
| 934 | India | DS451-451.9; GN855.I4 |
| 937 | Italian peninsula and adjacent areas | DG11-365; GN817-818 |
| 935 | Mesopotamia; Iranian Plateau | DS71-74; GN855.I72 |
| 970 | North America | E11-143 |
| 936 | Northern Europe; Western Europe | D51-95; GN803-845 |
| 990 | Other areas (including Australia, Oceania, the Arctic, and Antarctica) | DU1-950; GN871-875; GN885 |
| 939 | Other parts of ancient world (Aegean Islands; Asia Minor; the Middle East; the Black Sea) | DF220; DS156; DS56; DJK64 |
| 933 | Palestine | DS121-121.8; DS123.5; GN855.P3 |
| 980 | South America | F2201-3799 |
| 364 | Criminology | HV6001-7220.5 |
| 365 | Correctional and related institutions | HV8301-9920.7 |
| 390 | Manners and Customs; Etiquette; Folklore | GT1-7070; BJ1801-2195; GR1-950 |
| 392 | Customs of life cycle and domestic groups | GN482-486; GN480 |
| 398 | Folklore | GR1-950 |
| 394 | General customs | GT2400-3390.5 |
| 330 | Economics | HB-HJ |
| 334 | Cooperation and cooperative societies | HD2951-3575 |
| 332 | Finance | HG1-9999 |
| 337 | International economic relations | HF1351-1647 |
| 331 | Labor economics | HD4801-8943 |
| 331.1 | Labor market | HD5701-5852 |
| 333 | Land use | HD101-1395.5 |
| 339 | Macroeconomics | HB172.5 |
| 331.7 | Occupations | HB2581-2787 |
| 338 | Production | HB241 |
| 335 | Socialism, communism, Marxism and related systems | HX1-805 |
| 331.809 | Labor unions | HD6350-6940.7 |
| 370 | Education | L |
| 374 | Adult education | LC5201-6660.4 |
| C. | College publications | LB2342.85-.86 |
| 375 | Curricula and instructional systems | LB1570-1571.2; LB1628-1629.8; LB2361-2365 |
| 372.21 | Early childhood education | LB1139.2-.5 |
| 379 | Education and the state; Political aspects of education | LC71-188 |
| 371.95 | Education of gifted children | LC3991-4000 |
| 371.91 | Education of people with disabilities | LC4001-4700.4; LC4812-4827 |
| 376 | Education of women | LC1401-2572.2 |
| 372 | Elementary education | LB1554.2-1602 |
| 428.34 | English as a second language – teaching and learning | PE1128-1130.5 |
| 378 | Higher education | LB2300-2799.3 |
| 372.86 | Physical education and training | GV201-555 |
| 371.07 | Religious education | LC321-951 |
| 373 | Secondary education | LB1602.2-1696.6 |
| 371 | Theory and practice of education | LB1-3640 |
| 910 | Geography; Travel | G1-922; G149-180 |
| 916 | Africa | DT7-12.25 |
| 915 | Asia | DS5.95-10 |
| [525] | Earth; Astronomical geography | QB630-638.8 |
| [550] | Earth sciences | QE1-996.5 |
| 914 | Europe | D900-2027; DA-DR |
| 913 | Geography of ancient world | G83-88.5 |
| 912 | Graphic representation of Earth (Atlases; Globes; Maps) | G1001-3102; G3170-3171; G3200-9980 |
| 911 | Historical geography | G141 |
| 526] | Mathematical geography | GA1-87 |
| 917 | North America | E38-E41 |
| 919 | Other areas and worlds | DU |
| 910.2 | Physical geography | GB3-5030 |
| [621.3678] | Remote sensing; Geographic information systems | G70.39-.6, GE45.R44; G70.212-217 |
| 918 | South America | F2221-2225 |
| [610] | Health and Medical Science / Medicine | R |
| 617.8 | Audiology | RF286-320 |
| 616 | Diseases | RB151-154 |
| 614.4 | Epidemiology | RA648.5-654 |
| 611 | Human anatomy | QM1-695 |
| 617.1 | Injuries | RD92-97.8 |
| 616.8588 | Intellectual disability | RC569.7-574 |
| 616.89 | Mental illness and psychiatry | RC434.2-574 |
| 612.7 | Musculoskeletal systems | QP301-336 |
| 610.73 | Nursing | RT1-120 |
| 613 | Personal health | RA773-788 |
| 612 | Physiology | QP34-38 |
| 614 | Public health | RA421-790.95 |
| 615.851 | Recreational therapy | RM736.7 |
| 617.1027 | Sports medicine | RD97; RC1220-1245 |
| 616.86 | Substance abuse (pathology; psychiatry) | HV4997-5840; RC563-568 |
| 612.76 | Kinesiology | QP303 |
| [340] | Law | K |
| [344.07] | Educational law and legislation | K3740-3762 |
| [344] | Social legislation | K1700-1973 |
| [344.7307] | United States educational law and legislation | KF4101-4257 |
| 020 | Library and Information Science, Libraries | Z662-1000.5 |
| 002, 090 | Books (general), writing, paleography | Z4-115.5 |
| 070.5, 686 | Book industry and trade; Printing | Z116-659 |
| 323.448 | Computer security and data privacy | KF1263.C65 |
| 025.063 | Economics of information technology | HC79.I55 |
| 027 | General libraries, archives, and information centers | ZA3150-3159 |
| 025.04-025.524 | Information organization; Information retrieval; Special formats for information | Z666.5-7; ZA3075-3082; ZA4050-4775 |
| 303.4833 | Information technology—social effects; Digital divide | ZA3201-3250; HM846-855 |
| 346.048 | Intellectual property law, copyright, and patents | KF2971-3194 |
| 069 | Museums, collectors, and collecting | AM1-501 |
| 130 | Parapsychology, Paranormal Phenomena, and the Occult | BF1001-2055 |
| 133.5 | Astrology | BF1651-1729 |
| 133.3 | Divination | BF1745-1779 |
| 135 | Dreams; Visions | BF1074-1099; BF1100-1108 |
| 133.1 | Ghosts, apparitions, and haunted places | BF1444-1486 |
| 131 | Occult sciences | BF1403.2-2055 |
| 320 | Political Science | J-JZ |
| 358 | Armed forces; Air forces; Space security and surveillance | UA10-997; UG622-1435; UG1500-1530 |
| 325 | Emigration and immigration | JV6001-9480 |
| 356 | Foot forces and warfare | UD1-495 |
| 321 | Forms of the state | JC348-497 |
| 320.12 | Geopolitics | JC319-323 |
| 327 | International relations | JZ2-6530 |
| 328 | Legislation | JF375.2-619 |
| 355 | Military art and science | U1-900 |
| 359 | Naval science | V1-995; VA-VM |
| 324 | The political process | JF1001-1177 |
| 306.2 | Political sociology | JA76 |
| 351 | Public administration | JF1315.2-2112 |
| 350 | Public administration and military science | JF-JQ |
| 323 | Relation of state to its residents; Civil and political rights | JC571-607 |
| 322 | Relation of state to social groups | JC11 |
| 326 | Slavery and emancipation | HT851-1445 |
| 150 | Psychology | BF1-990 |
| 158 | Applied psychology | BF636-637.2 |
| 156 | Comparative psychology | BF660-685 |
| 155 | Differential and developmental psychology | BF697-697.5; BF712-724.92 |
| 153 | Consciousness and cognition | BF309-499 |
| 152 | Neuropsychology and psychophysiology | QP360-360.7 |
| 152.15 | Hearing and auditory perception | BF251-251.5 |
| 154 | Subconsciousness; Altered states of consciousness | BF315; BF1045.A48 |
| 790 | Recreation and Leisure | GV1-1860 |
| 797 | Aquatic sports | GV770.3-840 |
| 711 | Area planning | HD108.6 |
| 793 | Indoor games and amusements | GV1221-1469.63 |
| 719 | Planning natural landscape reserves | QH75-77 |
| 796 | Sports | GV561-1198.995 |
| 796.01-09 | Sport sociology, psychology, history | GV706.5; GV706.4; GV571-689.2 |
| 306.7 | Sexual Relations and Sexual Orientation | HQ12-449 |
| 305 | Social Groups | HM716-753 |
| 305.26 | Aging, older people | HQ1060-1064 |
| 307 | Communities | HM756-781 |
| 306 | Culture and social institutions; Ethnology | HM621-656; HM826; GN301-674 |
| 306.8 | Marriage and family | HQ503-1064 |
| 305.31 | Men | HQ1088-1090.7 |
| 305.8 | Racial, ethnic, and national groups | HT1501-1595; GN495.4-498; GN537-674 |
| 305.5 | Social classes | HT601-1445 |
| 306.4 | Specific aspects of culture (Language; Science; Art) | HM621-656; P40; Q175.5; NX180A-Z |
| 305.4 | Women | HQ1101-2030.7 |
| 360 | Social History and Social Problems | HN |
| 361 | Social pathology and social services | HV |
| 361.3 | Social work | HV40-69.2 |
| 368 | Insurance | HG8011-9999 |
| 362.2 | Mental illness and preventive mental health services; Social psychiatry | RA790; RC455 |
| 362.1 | Public health; Health policy | RA421-790.95; RA1-418.5 |
| 363.1 | Public safety | HV675-677 |
| 362.42 | Social problems of and social services to Deaf and hard of hearing people | HV2350-2990.7 |
| 368.4 | Social security | HD7088-7252 |
| 362 | Specific problems and services to specific groups | HV697-3024 |
| 362.29 | Substance abuse (social aspects) | RC563-568 |
| 300 | Social Sciences (including Sociology) | H |
| 001.4 | Research methods | H62; HM571-578 |
| 304.2 | Human ecology; Anthropogeography | GF1-900 |
| 304.8 | Migration; Population geography | HB1951-2577 |
| 304.6 | Population; Demography | HB848-3697 |
| [572] | Race | GN269-279 |
| 304 | Social behavior; Interpersonal relations | HM1106-1171 |
| 302 | Social interaction; Social psychology | HM1111; HM1001-1281 |
| 303 | Social processes and change | HM661-1126 |
| 301 | Sociology and specific topics | HM-HX |
| 616.855 | Speech and Language Disorders | RC423-428.8 |
| 616.8552 | Articulation disorders and aphasia | RC424.7-425.7 |
| 612.78 | Physiology of voice and speech | QP306 |
| 616.8554 | Stuttering | RC424 |
| [310] | Statistics | HA1-4737; QA276-280 |
| 338.4791 | Tourism | G154.9-155.8 |
| 001.942 | Unidentified flying objects; Human-alien encounters | TL789-789.6; BF2050-2055 |