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:
women slavery Africa; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; women Ghana history
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.
Women -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- 19th century
Women -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- 20th century
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