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AFS/HIST 220 African History to 1880s

This guide is designed to help the students in Dr. Candido's Fall 2024 Semester class with their research.

Find Books at Emory

Library Search is  Emory's main search tool to find books, titles of journals (not specific articles), videos, government documents, microfilm collections and other materials.

Library Search User Guide The user guide provides hints for searching the Emory Libraries Catalog.

Library Account Login 

Keyword Search: Use keyword searching on a single term or to combine concepts (X AND Y) and to search for particular words or phrases that might appear in titles or notes or subjects: See examples below:

slavery and Africa; women African history; African and colonization;  Gold Coast; Portugal and Africa

Subject Search  In the library catalog, books, videos and other materials are assigned Library of Congress (LC) subject headings based on their content. If you find a book that looks useful go into the record for that book and look at the subject headings used to describe the book -- click on any of them -- these are hyperlinks that will take you to a list of books with that particular subject heading that we have at Emory.  Here is a sample list of relevant subject headings for this course.

Africa, Portuguese-speaking--History

Africa, West--History--To 1884

Colonies--Africa—History

Lagos (Nigeria)--History--18th century

Slave trade—Africa

Women--Africa--History

Call Numbers

The Emory Libraries use the Library of Congress (LC) Classification System to organize its books. Unlike the Dewey Decimal System, the LC scheme uses a combination of letters and numbers. This system allows each item to have a unique call number and place in the stacks. Library of Congress classification groups together works on the same subject. 

Library of Congress Call Numbers

Explanation of Library of Congress Call Numbers

CALL NUMBER GUIDE WOODRUFF LIBRARY

Stacks Tower Level

10       Rose Library
9         Closed 
8         A - DC
7         DD - HD2499
6         HD2500 - JK & N-NX
5         JL - LT, P - PR999
4         PR1000 - Z

Lobby Wing Level (Music and Media Library)

4         M - MZ 

Science Commons

QD

Health Sciences Library

QH, QM, QP, QR, SF, W