Research Guides: History: Finding Books

Finding Books at SSU and Beyond

Follow the links below to find books at Salem State University Library or in libraries elsewhere.

SSU Library Catalog
To find books in the Berry Library at Salem State and in other local libraries in the NOBLE Library Consortium, select the Books, Media & More tab above the search box at the top of the library's homepage. Request books from other NOBLE Libraries by clicking on the Place Hold button. The book will be sent to Salem State or another library of your choice.

Place Hold Instructions

WorldCat
Contains the catalogs of thousands of libraries worldwide. Items found in WorldCat can be requested through Interlibrary Loan and picked up at the Library's Circulation Desk.
HathiTrust
Large collection of online, usually older, books in the public domain.

InterLibrary Loan

Interlibrary Loan
Request books and articles from libraries beyond Salem State and the NOBLE system from Interlibrary Loan.

Call Numbers for History

Many people like to search for books in the library by browsing the shelves. This works because books are arranged on the shelves by subject. The call number of each book tells not only where the book is in the library, but what its main subject is. Use the list below to find history books on the topic in which you are interested.

C Auxiliary Sciences of History (General)

CB History of Civilization

CC Archaelology

CD Diplomatics. Archives. Seals.

CE Technical Chronology. Calendar.

CI Numismatics.

CN Inscriptions. Epigraphy.

CR Heraldry

CS Genealogy

CT Biography (General)

D History (General)

Europe (General)

DA Great Britain

DAW Central Europe

DB Austria. Hungary. Czechoslovakia

DC France

DD Germany

DE The Greco-Roman World

DF Greece

DG Italy

DH Low Countries. Benelux Countries

DJ Netherlands (Holland)

DJK Eastern Europe (General)

DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics. Poland

DL Northern Europe. Scandinavia

DP Spain. Portugal

DQ Switzerland

DR Balkan Peninsula. Turkey

DS Asia

DT Africa

DU Oceanina (South Seas)

DX Gypsies

E-F History: America

E United States (General)

F United States local history. Canada. Latin America

For more specific topics, click on the links below.

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Subjects: Art + Design, Environment, Geography & Sustainability, History, Media & Communications, Philosophy

Additional Call Numbers Related to History

BL660-2680 History and prinicples of religions

HC-HD Economic history and conditions

HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform

JV61-152 Colonies and colonization - history

JV6021-6347 Emigraion and Immigration. International Migration - history

LA History of Education

ML159-3785 Literature on music. History and criticism

N5300-7418 Visual arts - history

PN441-1009.5 Literature (General). Literary history

R131-687 History of medicine. Medical expeditions

U27043 Military science (General). History of military science

U45 Military Science (General). Historiography