Distribution of books and periodicals in CUHK libraries

Printed publications are distributed over five libraries in the University Library System broadly according to subject. Note that because of specific approaches in the areas of medicine and architecture, the Medical and Architecture Libraries do contain a wider range of materials. The sixth library in the System, the United College Wu Chung Multimedia Library, houses audio-visual materials on all subjects.

CLASSES	SUBJECTS	UL	CC	NA
A (all sub-classes)	General	x	x	x
B - BD	Philosophy			x
BF	Psychology, Parapsychology, Occultism	x
BH	Aesthetics			x
BJ	Ethics, Social usages, Etiquette			x
BL - BX	Religion		x
C - F	History	x
G - GF	Geography	x
GN - GT	Anthropology	x
GV	Recreation, Sports, Games		x
H (all subclasses)	Social Sciences	x
J (all sub-classes)	Political Science	x
K (all sub-classes)	Law	x
L (all sub-classes)	Education		x
M (all sub-classes)	Music		x
N (all subclasses except NA)	Fine Arts			x
NA	Architecture
P (except P87 - P99.6)	Philology and linguistics		x
P87 - P99.6	Communication, Mass Media	x
PA	Classical languages and literatures		x
PB	Celtic languages		x
PC	Romance languages		x
PD	Germanic languages		x
PE	English language		x
PF	West Germanic languages, Dutch, German		x
PG	Slavic, Baltic, Armenian languages and literature		x
PH	Finno-Ugrian languages and literature		x
PJ	Oriental languages and literatures		x
PK	Indo-Iranian languages and literatures		x
PL	Chinese language and literature (and other East Asian languages and literature)			x
PL500 - PL899	Japanese Language & Literature		x
PM	American Indian languages, Artificial languages		x
PN (except PN1990 - PN1999 & PN4699 - PN5648)	Literature, General literary history and collections, Performing arts		x
PN1990 - PN1999	Drama, Broadcasting of, etc.	x
PN4699 - PN5648	Journalism	x
PQ	Romance literatures		x
PR	English literature		x
PS	American literature		x
PT	Germanic literatures		x
Q - QP [seenotes (3)]	Science	x
QS - QZ (NLM) [see notes(3)]	Pre-clinical Sciences	x
R [see notes(6)]	Medicine	x
S (all sub-classes)	Agriculture	x
T	Technology	x
TA, TK (and all other sub-classes of T)	Engineering, etc.	x
U (all sub-classes)	Military Science	x
V (all sub-classes)	Naval Science	x
W (NLM) [seenotes (3)]	Medicine	x
Z	Library Science	x	x	x

Notes

1. A cross "X" under a Library denotes the Library will hold the class of materials in question. For example, materials on Class B - BD (Philosophy) will be held in New Asia College Library.

2. Unless otherwise specified, the subclasses of a main class of materials will be located in the same library. Take L class (Education) for example, subclasses LA, LB, LC. LD, LE, etc. will also be located in the Chung Chi College Library.

3. Materials classified under QP - QZ and W are housed in the University Library or Li Ping Medical Library.

4. Materials classified under NA, TH and other architecture related materials are housed in the Architecture Library.

5. The Modern Chinese Drama Collection is housed in United College Library.

6. The R class is no longer in use for medical books since 1981. Instead, the classification of the National Library of Medicine of the United States has been adopted. There are some medical books published before 1975 still in the R class.

7. The Hong Kong Studies collection is housed on 3/F Library Annex, University Library.