English Faculty Library

Books and Journals

Our print collection of more than 80,000 volumes (books and periodicals) is designed to support taught courses with the Faculty of English.  Each item is given a "classmark" which tells you where to look for it in the library. Each classmark begins with a letter.  The collection starts with A in the basement and continues alphabetically through the ground and first floors.

Exceptions:

• Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic books and periodicals (classmarks beginning with E1) are on the first floor
• DVDs and CDs and some videos (classmarks beginning with DVD, CD and V) are in Newman's Corner on the first floor
• The Tasker Collection of Caribbean Literature is in the Discussion Room on the first floor
• General reference works (classmarks beginning with Z) are on the ground floor
• Less frequently used books, including the Rare Books Collection, are in closed stacks in the basement.  This will be indicated in the catalogue and can be requested at the issue desk.

Click here for more about classmarks and some quick tips on browsing for books, or click on the images below to view plans for each floor of the library.

Basement

• A = American Studies
• B = Bibliography
• C = Postcolonial Studies
• D = Middle/Far Eastern Studies
• E0 = English Literature (non-period)
• E2 = European Literature (1100-1500)
• E3 = English Literature (1500-1660)
• Facsimiles and Oversized books
• English Periodicals.

Ground Floor

• E4 = English Literature (1660-1780)
• E5 = English Literature (1780-1830)
• E6 = English Literature (1830-1870)
• E7 = English Literature (1870-1930)
• E8 = English Literature (1930-1980) [finishes at E 84 Q]
• Z = General reference materials

First Floor

• CDs and DVDs
• ASNC Periodicals
• E1 = Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
• E8 = English Literature (1930-1980) [starts at E 84 R]
• E9 = English Literature (1980 onwards)
• F = French Studies
• Gk = Greek Studies
• Gm = German Studies
• H = Latin Studies
• I = Italian Studies
• K = Art (Painting, Architecture, Sculpture etc)
• L = Music, Opera
• M = Theatre, Cinema, Local Studies, Folklore, Gender Studies
• O = Literary History (not limited to a geographical region)
• Q = Slavonic Studies
• R = Russian Studies
• S = Spanish Studies
• Sc = Scandinavian Studies
• T = Language and Linguistics
• V = Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Religion, Ethics, Aesthetics, Psychology, Logic
• W = Education
• X - Early English Text Society publications

 

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