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George A. Rawlyk Library

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Discovery is Crandall's library catalogue. It searches the entire library collection — both physical and electronic — with just one search engine.

Use these commands in the search engine to make your search more specific and efficient:

  • au: author, e.g. au: c.s. lewis
  • ti: title, e.g. ti: romeo and juliet
  • su: subject search for books entirely devoted to the topic
  • kw: keyword search for books with a chapter on the topic
    • e.g. su: calvin AND kw: institutes
  • lc: library call number, e.g. lc: DT 1013 .D45 1996
  • pb: publisher, e.g. pb: oxford press
  • isbn: search with or without hyphens
  • mt: main target audience, e.g. mt: juv [for juvenile/children's books]
  • truncation *  e.g.:religio* [finds religion, religious, religiosity]
  • AND finds both, e.g. religion AND teens
  • OR finds either, e.g. teens OR youth
  • Combine AND & OR, using parentheses
    •  (religio* OR faith) AND (teen* OR youth)
    •  (su: religio* OR faith) AND (su: youth OR teen*)
    • kw: calvin AND (jean OR john)
  • Phrase searching: quotation marks e.g. ti: "crime and punishment"
  • NOT excludes, e.g. NOT (mt: juvenile OR su: fiction) [excludes children's books and fiction]

Do a preliminary search on your topic, e.g., "Christian perspectives on movies":

View the Descriptions of relevant books and notice the Subjects field below the description.

Then try an Advanced Search using keywords from the above Subject headings:

AND finds all terms

OR finds either term

religio* (* truncation symbol) finds any ending, e.g., religion, religious, religiosity

The library is arranged by subject, using the Library of Congress call number system, which is used by most academic libraries. Scroll down for an outline of the subject arrangement. More details can be found here.

The letters at the top are arranged alphabetically.

Books having the same letter(s) on the top line are distinguished by the numbers that follow, shelved numerically.

If those lines are the same, the books are distinguished by the letters that follow, which are shelved alphabetically.

If those lines are identical, the next numbers are arranged decimally (not numerically):

QM

23

.E6543

QM

23

.E778

QM

23

.E88

QM

23

.E9

QM

23

.E99

QM

23

.E995

QM

23

.E999

 

Classification

Books in the Rawlyk Library are classified according to the Library of Congress Classification.

Call number range Subject
A General works
B-BD Philosophy
BF Psychology
BH Aesthetics
BJ Ethics
BL Religion
BM Judaism
BP Islam
BQ Buddhism
BR Christianity
BS The Bible
BT-BV Christian theology
BX Christian denominations
C-F History
FC History of Canada
G-GC Geography
GE-GF Environmental Sciences
GN  Anthropology
GR Folklore
GT Manners and Customs
GV  Recreation and Sports
H Social sciences
HA Statistics
HB-HC Economics
HD-HF Business
HG-HJ Finance
HM-HV Sociology
HX-J Political science
K Law
L Education
M Music
N Visual arts
P-PM Language
PN-PT Literature
Q Science
QA Mathematics
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
QD Chemistry
QE Geology
QH Biology
QK Botany
QL Zoology
QM Human anatomy
QP Physiology
QR Microbiology
R Medicine
S Agriculture
T Technology
U-V Military science
Z Library science

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