To find a book in the SJU libraries, you need to make sure it is available and get the location information and call number. That information can be found in the Primo library search. The location tells you whether the book is in Drexel Library or J.W. England Library, and the call number is needed to find the book on the shelf.
Let's use the call number PS3563.O8749 S8 2004 as an example. Read each part of this call number one at a time and find the corresponding section of the book shelves.
| PS3505 | First, read the letters on the shelves alphabetically. Find the PS section of the book shelves. Then, within the PS section, read the number as a whole number. (Sometimes there will be a decimal after the whole number. If so, treat it like a decimal. So PS3563.5 would come between PS3563 and PS3564.) |
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.U334 F5 |
Within the PS3563s, the letters will again be alphabetical. Notice that decimal point before this section of the call number? Any numbers after that decimal point are to be read as decimals. So PS3563 O8749 comes before PS3563 O9 (because .8749 is smaller than .9) Then read the letters alphabetically again; PS3563 O8759 S8 would come before PS3563.O8749 T. Then the next number is a decimal. So PS3563.O8749 F5 would be on the shelf after PS3563.O8749 F48 (because .5 is larger than .48) |
| 1940 | Sometimes there will be another number, usually the year of publication. There may be several editions of the same book, in this case there is an earlier one published in 1982 and this one published in 2004. They'll be in date order. |