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India Study Abroad Research Tutorial

Browsing Areas and Subject Headings

Browsing for Books

These are call numbers for some areas of the library you may want to browse: The city of Leh, Ladakh, northern India, courtesy www.historylink102.com/india

Subject Headings

The Library of Congress classification system has many subject headings relating to India. To search the UNC-Chapel Hill library catalog using a subject heading, choose "LC Subject" and then enter a search term. Often you can find a helpful subject term by entering "India" and then playing around with keywords. You can make the headings broader or narrower in scope by adding or removing search terms. For instance, you can narrow "India--Fiction" to "Women--India--Fiction."

Some subject headings you may want to begin with are:

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