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No library has every item a researcher might want. If you cannot locate a particular item here, you could check with a reference librarian in person or online to be certain since library catalogs and other finding aids are complex tools. The librarian can also help find alternatives if time is short.
The next step is to request an Interlibrary Loan for the item. Learn more about this service from the library website.
Use this Quick Guide to locate books and journals in the library stacks (3rd floor) for research materials on English:
| P | LINGUISTICS |
| P 87.5; P301-301.5 |
Rhetoric |
| PE | ENGLISH LANGUAGE |
| PE 1128 | TESL, TEFL |
| PN | LITERATURE (GENERAL), LITERARY CRITICISM |
| PN 80-99 | Criticism |
| PN 441-1009 | Literary history |
| PN 1010-1525 | Poetry |
| PQ | FRENCH, ITALIAN, SPANISH, PORTUGUESE LITERATURE |
| PQ 1-3999 | French literature |
| PQ 4001-5999 | Italian literature |
| PQ 6001-8929 | Spanish literature |
| PQ 9000-9999 | Portuguese literature |
| PR |
ENGLISH LITERATURE |
| PR 1-56 | Literary history and criticism |
| PR 931-938 | Wit and humor |
| PR 1098-1369 | Collections of English literature |
| PR 1803-6126 | English literature, chronol. by period |
| PS | AMERICAN LITERATURE |
| PS 126-138 | Biography, memoirs, letters |
| PS 147-152 | Women authors |
| PS 301-326 | Poetry |
| PS 430-439 | Wit, humor, satire |
| PS 700-3576 | American lit., authors chronol. by period |
| PT | EUROPEAN LITERATURE (those not in PQ) |
See the full classification here.
Postcolonial writers writing in European languages are classed with other writers in the particular language. For example, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie are classed in PR because they write in English.
In the sections for the literature of particular countries, such as PR and PS, arrangement is chronological, then alphabetical within the time period:
| PR 1850-1955 | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| PR 2750-3195 | William Shakespeare |
| PR 3550-3598 | John Milton |
| PR 4030-4038 | Jane Austen |
| PR 4550-4598 | Charles Dickens |
| PR 6045 .O72 | Virginia Woolf |
| PS 1850-1898 | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| PS 2380-2388 | Herman Melville |
| PS 3511 .I9 | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| PS 3553 .A7894 | Raymond Carver |
| PS 3563 .O8749 | Toni Morrison |