Arrangment of Books 

Books are arranged by subject according to the Library of Congress classification scheme. Explanatory lists and leaflets are available in the Reading Room. Guides for individual subjects are also available with details of holdings and resources.

A rough guide to the classification scheme is shown below.

Floor 1
General Works, Encyclopaedias, Dictionaries etc. A
Philosophy B - BD
Psychology BL - BX
Auxiliary sciences of History, Archaeology, Biography etc. C
History: general, Britain, Central Europe, France, Germany D – DE

Floor 2
History cont. DF - F
Geography / Anthropology / Recreation G
Social Sciences / Economics / Sociology H
Political Science J
Law K
Education L
Music M
Fine Arts N
Language and Literature P1 - PR1118
  Philology and Linguistics P
  Classical Languages & Literature PA
  Modern European Languages PB - PH
  Oriental Languages & Literatures PJ - PK
  Languages & Literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL
  Literature PN
  Romance Literatures PQ
  English Literature PR - PR1118

Floor 3
Language and Literature cont. PR1119 - PZ
  English Literature PR1120 - 9680
  American Literature PS
  Germanic Literatures PT
Science Q
  Mathematics QA
  Astronomy / Physics QB - QC
  Chemistry QD
  Geology QE
  Natural History / Biology QH
  Botany QK
  Zoology QL
  Human anatomy QM
  Physiology QP
  Microbiology QR
Medicine R
Agriculture S
Technology T
Military & Naval science U - V
Library science Z 

Student Websites

Christ's College has two student run websites, one run by the JCR for undergraduates and the other run by the MCR for the graduate students of the college.

 

Sub-Naviation