Books at Dinand Library are arranged by Library of Congress Call Number. Call Numbers are used to find books in the library. Each book is assigned a call number made up of letters and numbers, which acts like an address and tells you what shelves to look on.
For a breakdown of Library of Congress Call number's related to English, see the hand out below.
To search for books held by the Holy Cross Libraries, you can use:
SEARCH TIP: When you don't have a particular title of a book in mind, begin by searching for a key term about your research topic.Then look at the subjects for the books in your search results. You can think of these as 'tags' used to identify what the book is about. You will also see subjects used in this way in our research databases. You can search for books using either keywords or using these subjects.
Start with a Keyword search and identify some relevant books. Then look at the subjects for those books -- do you see anything that might help lead you to other sources? Try clicking on a subject to bring up a list of all the books tagged with that word. You can also use these subjects to help you come up with other keywords to try.
Examples of Subject Headings:
Dystopias in literature.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre).
Gothic Revival literature.