Sometimes when you're starting to do research, it's helpful to just spend some time in the library looking around. If you find yourself in Chapin Planning Library and you want to browse the shelves to see what materials you can find, here's a quick sketch of the organization of 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 is 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)

It's always important to use the libraries catalog in addition to browsing, too.
Remember to ask a librarian if you need some help or inspiration!