Browsing in the Planning Library

Here's a quick sketch of how we use the Library of Congress classification scheme in our small library:

• BF 637: Negotiation
• CB 450: Geography and Civilization
• D: History of Europe; includes books on Description and Travel
• E and F: American History; includes regional topics relating to City Planning
• G: General Geography
• GB: Physical Geography; GB 450-460: Coasts
• GC 512: Estuarine Study Reports
• GE: Environmental Sciences
• GV 1040: Bicycling
• H: General Social Science (research, policy, etc.)
• HA: Statistics
• HB and HC: Economics; Economic Geography
• HD 101-1395.5: Land Use
• HE: Transportation
• HF: Commerce (retail real estate, etc.)
• HG: Finance (banking, real estate financing, etc.)
• HJ: Public Finance
• HM: Sociology
• HN: Social History and Problems
• HT: Communities (HT 165.5-169.9: City Planning)
• HV: Social and Public Welfare (by regions and by specific demographic groups)
• J: Political Science (including theory, public administration, and local government)
• K: Law (divided by geographical regions)
• NA: Architecture
• QA 276: Statistics
• QC 851-999: Climatology and Meteorology
• QE 500-614: Dynamic and Structural Geology
• QH 75-77: Nature Conservation, Landscape Protection; QH 540-550: Ecology
• RA: Public Aspects of Medicine
• S: Agriculture (including soil science, gardens, ornamental plants)
• T: Technology (including engineering; environmental technology; highway, railway and bridge engineering; building construction, and industries)