Finding EFL books using the LC classification scheme  

For further information please see:

English Faculty Library website: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/english/reclassification

Library of Congress classification scheme outline: http://www.loc.gov/aba/cataloging/classification/lcco  

Since early 2009, the four faculty libraries (English, History, Philosophy and Theology) have been changing the way they arrange their books on the shelves in order to assist readers to find titles on related subjects in each of these libraries more easily, by using the same classification scheme.

The libraries’ in-house classification schemes are being changed to one of the major schemes in use in academic libraries in the UK and US – the Library of Congress Classification scheme (LCC).
 
The EFL began by classifying to LCC any new books purchased from January 2009 onwards. These are now in a new LCC sequence on the shelves immediately after the journals on the main floor of the library. The only exception to this is Z (Bibliography) which is upstairs in the Gallery. A broad outline of the scheme is provided at the General Scheme Overview section of this guide.

All our books are fully searchable on SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online), the Oxford Libraries' catalogue, by title, by author and by shelf mark, so if you know the shelf mark for a particular author or topic you can browse a list of books on your chosen subject. At present there are only a small proportion of books in the EFL with LCC shelf marks, but this number will grow as we gradually reclassify the whole collection.