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How to use our in-house catalogue

Materials not in our online catalogue are located through our remaining card catalogues.

Bullet  Library card catalogues

  • post-1910 authors (monographs)
  • subject (monographs/periodical articles)
  • periodicals titles
  • corporate authors

Bullet  Map card catalogue

  • holds post-1940 items

Bullet  Archive and picture catalogues

  • mostly online
  • for Antarctic expeditions and Everest pictures, please consult Collections staff

Bullet  Searching

  • author catalogues are organised alphabetically
  • corporate author catalogue entries are created when there is no obvious individual author; entries could be the name of a project, expedition or organisation or occasionally a country name
  • subject/map catalogues are geographical by continent, then country
  • subject catalogue divides each country into subfields, eg ‘geology’
  • maps are subdivided:
    - General, ‘Gen.’ or ‘G.’
    - Division or ‘Div.’
    - District, ‘Dist.’ or ‘D.’
    - Special, ‘Spec.’ or ‘S.’

Bullet  Requesting

On registration, you will be provided with a general request form.

The fields required are:

  • control number (only available on online records; write ‘card cat’ here)
  • class number
  • author
  • title (include periodical title/volume/issue/pages here when requesting an article)
  • publication date/edition

Ensure that you complete all requested fields.

Subject catalogue cards do not include the class number. You must check the main author/periodical title catalogue entries for the class number.

For map class numbers, please state the country, then the map type i.e. G, then number., eg ‘U.S.A. G.45’.

1911-1999 books / post-1940 maps

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