Shelving of Materials

The Library of Congress (LC) Classification Scheme has been used since 1969 for Western language materials and from 1971 for East Asian language materials. Medical books are classified according to the National Library of Medicine Scheme. Each item in the Library collection is assigned a Call Number, which is a combination of letters and arabic numerals.
 

Subclass		Author letters and numbers
Q       A	7       6 .	S    8    7	1  9  7  6
Main Class	Numerical		Publication
	subdivision		Year

All materials are shelved by Call Number, first by Main Classes, then by Subclasses. Books of QB are therefore follow books of QA. After capital letters representing Main Classes and Subclasses books are shelved according to their assigned numerical subdivision number and then by author letters and numbers. The author letters and numbers are filed in a decimal system. For example: QA76.S844 is shelved before QA76.S87. When Call Numbers are exactly the same, books are shelved according to date of publication chronologically.
 

 New Books

• New Books Display
  Newly acquired books are put on display. In the University Library, new books are displayed on the G/F near the User Education Rooms. You may check them out at your convenience. To check out new books in other libraries, please ask at the Circulation Counter.
   
• Bi-Weekly New Additions List
  List of new items acquired by the Library is available on Library Catalogue via Web by selecting New Additions List .

  Items not found on the shelf

If the item is listed as " NOT CHCKD OUT " on the Library On-line Catalogue and you cannot find it on the shelf for three days already, you may fill out a " Item Search Request Form ". The Library staff will locate it for you and you will be informed of the result.

For more information on circulation services, please call the Library's Circulation Department at 2609 7306 or send e-mail to ulcir@cuhk.edu.hk.