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You can visit any library location (with open stacks) to browse and take books from the shelves OR you can put books on hold and pick them up from available locations.
Please note: Bruce Peel Special Collections and the Research & Collections Resource Facility have closed stacks that cannot be browsed.
Book Information from the Library Catalogue
When looking up the book, Engineering: Introduction to Environmental Engineering, we can see its:
- Item type: Book
- Availability: Available
- Library: Cameron Library
- Location within the library: 3rd Floor
- Call number: TD 145 M4232 2011
Call Numbers
Once you've determined the availability, library and general location of the item you are looking for, you'll use the call number to find the item on the shelf.
Example: TD 145 M4232 2011, which is available and found on the 3rd floor of Cameron Library.
| The general subject of the book - filed alphabetically | The more specific subject of the book - filed numerically | Usually represents the author's surname - filed alphabetically and then numerically in decimal order | When the book was published - filed chronologically |
| TD | 145 | M4232 | 2011 |
| First look for the TD 145 section on the 3rd floor of Cameron Library. Look at the little plaques at the end of each aisle of books to see where TD 145 would fit. | After you've found the aisle where TD 145 would be located, look at the spine labels of the books, to see where TD 145 starts. | After you've found TD 145 on the spine labels, then look for the start of M4232 on the spine labels. | Once you've found the start of M4232, then look for the 2011 on the spine labels. |
Unsure how to read a call number? Check out our poster below or ask a staff member at any of our service desks.
Library Item Types
We have more than just books on our shelves: find CDs, DVDs, records, maps, puppets, games, math sets, robotics kits, and many other things.
Item Locations by Library
Unsure about where a book is located? Ask us!
| Augustana Library | |
| Course Materials | Main Floor |
| Call Numbers A-Z | Lower Level |
| Music, Music CD, Music LP Record | Lower Level |
| Bibliothèque Saint-Jean | |
| Course Materials | Main Floor |
| Call Numbers A-Z | Main Floor |
| Curriculum | Main Floor |
| Cameron Library | |
| Course Materials | Main Floor |
| Call Numbers A-Z | 3rd Floor |
| Maps + Circumpolar | 4th Floor |
| Rutherford Library (North) | |
| Course Materials | Main Floor |
| Curriculum | 2nd Floor |
| Call Numbers A-E | 3rd Floor |
| Call Numbers F-PC | 4th Floor |
| Call Number PD-Z | 5th Floor |
| Sperber Library | |
| Course Materials | Level One |
| Indigenous Healing Collection | Level One |
| Call Numbers A-Z | Lower Level |
| Weir Law Library | |
| Call Numbers KE + Gov Docs | 2nd Floor |
| Call Numbers A-KD + KF-Z | 3rd Floor |
*Please note: 2nd floor is the main floor of the Weir Law Library.