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Library of Congress Call Numbers

A: General Works
AC: General Collections, Series, Collected Works
AE: General Encyclopedias
AG: General Dictionaries and Other General Reference Works
AM: Museums; Collectors and Collecting
AP: General Periodicals
AY: General Yearbooks, Almanacs, Directories
AZ: History of Scholarship and Learning; General Humanities
B: Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion
B-BD: Philosophy
BC: Logic
BD: Speculative Philosophy
BF: Psychology (incl. Parapsychology and the Occult)
BH-BJ: Aesthetics, Ethics, Etiquette
BH: Aesthetics
BJ: Ethics, Etiquette
BL-BX: Religion
BL: Religion: General, Miscellaneous, and Atheism
BM: Judaism
BP: Islam, Baha'i, and New Religions
BQ: Buddhism
BR: Christianity (General)
BS: The Bible
BT: Christian Doctrinal Theology
BV: Christian Practical Theology
BX: Christian Denominations
C: History: Auxiliary sciences
CB: History of Civilization
CD: Diplomatics, Archives, Seals
CJ: Numismatics
CN: Inscriptions, Epigraphy
CR: Heraldry
CS: Genealogy
CT: Biography (General)
D: History: General, and Regions Outside the Americas
DA: Great Britain and Ireland
DAW: Central Europe
DB: Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia
DC: France, Andorra, Monaco
DD: Germany
DE: Mediterreanean Region, Greco-Roman World
DF: Greece
DG: Italy
DH-DJ: Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands
DH: Low Countries (General), Belgium, Luxembourg
DJ: The Netherlands
DJK: Eastern Europe
DK: Russia, Former Soviet Republics, Poland
DL: Northern Europe, Scandinavia
DP: Spain, Portugal
DQ: Switzerland
DR: Balkan Region
DS: Asia
DT: Africa
DU: Oceania, Australia, New Zealand
DX: Roma (Gypsies)
E: History: United States (General)
F: History: United States (Regional), and the Americas
G: Geography, Anthropology, Folklore, Recreation
G-GB: Geography (General and Physical)
GA: Mathematical Geography and Cartography
GB: Physical Geography
GC: Oceanography
GE: Environmental Sciences
GF: Human Geography
GN: Anthropology
GR: Folklore
GT: Manners and Customs
GV: Recreation and Leisure
H: Social Sciences
HA: Statistics
HB-HJ: Economics and Business
HB: Economic Theory and Demography
HC: Economic History and Conditions
HD: Industries, Land Use, Labor
HE: Transportation and Communications
HF: Commerce
HG: Finance
HJ: Public Finance
HM: Sociology (General)
HN: Social History, Problems, and Reform
HQ: Family, Marriage, Sex and Gender
HS: Societies and Clubs
HT: Cities, Communities, Ethnicity
HV: Social Service, Welfare, Criminology
HX: Socialism, Communism, Utopias, Anarchism
J: Political Science
J-JA: General Legislative and Executive Papers; General Political Science
JC: Political Theory
JF-JQ: Political Institutions and Public Administration
JS: Local and Municipal Government
JV: Colonies, Colonization, Migration
JX: (Obsolete category for international law; items moving to KZ and elsewhere)
JZ: International Relations
K: Law
KB-KBU: Religious Law
KB: Religious Law (General and Miscellaneous)
KBM: Jewish Law
KBP: Islamic Law
KBU: Catholic Canon Law and The Holy See
KD: Law in England and Wales
KE: Law in Canada
KF-KFZ: Law in the United States
KF: US Federal Law, and Common and Collective State Law
KFA-KFW: Law in Individual US States
KFX: Law in US Cities
KH-KHW: Law in South America
KH: Law in South America (General)
KHF: Law in Chile
KJ-KKZ: Law in Europe
KJ: History of Law in Europe; Germanic Law
KJA: Roman Law
KJE: Law in the European Union and other European Regions and Groups
KL-KWX: Law in Asia and Eurasia, Africa, Pacific Areas, and Antarctica
KLB: Law in the Russian Federation (Since 1992)
KMP: Law in Lebanon
KNN: Law in China (General)
KNQ: Law of the People's Republic of China
KNS-KNU: Law in India
KNW: Law in Indonesia
KPL: Law in Pakistan
KPV-KPW: Law in Vietnam
KQC: African Regional, Comparative, and Uniform Law
KQV: Law in Burundi
KQW: Law in Cameroon
KSK: Law in Kenya
KSN: Law in Liberia
KTL: Law in South Africa
KTW: Law in Uganda
KWH: Law in Papua New Guinea
KZ: Law of Nations (see also JX, until that category is cleared)
L: Education
LA: History of Education
LB: Theory and Practice of Education
LC: Social Aspects of Education
LD-LG: Individual Educational Institutions
LH: College and School Magazines and Papers
M: Music
ML: Literature on Music
MT: Musical Instruction and Study
N: Fine Arts
NA: Architecture
NB: Sculpture
NC: Drawing, Design, Illustration
ND: Painting
NE: Printing and Related Arts
NK: Decorative Arts
NX: Arts in General
P: Language and Literature
PA: Classical Languages and Literature
PB: Modern European Languages; Celtic Languages and Literature
PC: Romance Languages
PD: Old Germanic and Scandinavian Languages and Literature
PE: English Language
PF: West Germanic Languages
PG: Slavic (incl. Russian) Languages and Literature
PH: Uralic and Basque (incl. Finnish and Hungarian) Languages and Literature
PJ-PL: Literature: African, Asian, and Pacific
PM: Indigeneous American and Artificial Languages
PN: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
PQ: Literature: French, Italian, and Spanish
PR: Literature: English (non-American)
PS: Literature: American
PT: Literature: Germanic
Q: Science
QA: Mathematics and Computer Science
QB-QE: Physical Sciences
QB: Astronomy
QC: Physics
QD: Chemistry
QE: Geology
QH-QR: Biological Sciences
QH: Natural History and Biology (General)
QK: Botany
QL: Zoology
QM: Human Anatomy
QP: Physiology
QR: Microbiology
R: Medicine
RA: Public Aspects of Medicine
RB: Pathology
RC: Internal Medicine
RD: Surgery
RE: Ophthalmology
RF: Otorhinolaryngology (Ear, Nose, and Throat)
RG: Gynecology and Obstetrics
RJ: Pediatrics
RK: Dentistry
RL: Dermatology
RM: Therapeutics and Pharmacology
RS: Pharmacy and Materia Medica
RT: Nursing
RV-RZ: Botanic and alternative medicine
S: Agriculture
SB: Plant Culture
SD: Forestry
SF: Animal Culture
SH: Aquaculture, Fisheries, Angling
SK: Hunting
T: Technology
TA: Engineering (General and Civil)
TC: Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering
TD: Technology and the Environment (including pollution)
TE-TG: Highways, Railways, and Bridges
TH: Building Construction
TJ: Mechanical Engineering
TK: Electrical Engineering (and computer networks); Nuclear Engineering
TL: Motor Vehicles, Air and Space Technology
TN: Mining and Metallurgy
TP: Chemical Technology
TR: Photography
TS: Manufacturing
TT: Handicrafts; Arts and Crafts
TX: Home Economics (including food and cooking)
U: Military Science
UA: Armies: Organization, Distribution, Military Situation
UB: Military Administration
UC: Maintenance and Transportation
UD: Infantry
UE: Cavalry, Armor
UF: Artillery and Other Heavy Weaponry
UG: Military Engineering, Air Forces
UH: Other Miltary Services
V: Naval Science
VA: Navies: Organization, Distribution, Naval Situation
VE: Marines
VG: Minor Services of Navies
VK: Navigation, Merchant Marine
VM: Naval Architecture, Shipbuilding, Marine Engineering
Z: Bibliography and Library Science
ZA: Information Resources (General)

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