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Computer & Information Science

A beginner's guide to start you on your way to discovering the UMass Dartmouth Claire T. Carney Library's resources available in Computer and Information Science.

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The Claire T. Carney Library has an excellent collection of print and electronic books in this field.  

The print collection is located on the fifth floor, but many of the newer titles are electronic.  Both can be found by searching our discovery system, Primo.

If there's a book you're interested in that we don't have, see the Interlibrary Loan tab for information on how to get it!

Finding Books in Our Library

Use the search box below to run a quick search for books, or use the advanced search page to limit your material type to books prior to searching. 

Books - Print and E-Books

Here are just a few examples of the print and e-book collection we have!

Browsing In-person for Computer & Information Science Books

Our library uses the Library of Congress Call Number Classification System to organize our books. If you know a little bit about what the call numbers stand for, you can browse the stacks more efficiently. 

All of the science books are on the 5th floor. Here are the call number ranges that will likely be most useful to those interested in computer and information science:

Q - Science (General)

Q 300-390 - Cybernetics

QA - Mathematics

QA 75.5-76.95 - Electronic computers. Computer science

T - Technology

Reading Call Numbers

Here's a quick guide on how to read call numbers in our library (and most other academic libraries).

 

An image of a call number on a side of a book. An arrow points to the first line.

The first line is read in alphabetical order.

  • ex. This would be before the PQ's but after the PM's.

 

An image of a call number on a side of a book. An arrow points to the second line.

Read the second line in numerical order.

  • ex. This would be after PN 6746 and before PN 6747.1 or PN 6748.

 

An image of a call number on a side of a book. An arrow points to the third line.

The third line is tricky. Read the letter in alphabetical order then the number as a decimal.

  • ex. PN 6747 .S245 would come before PN 6747 .S5, because .5 in decimal is really .500!

 

An image of a call number on a side of a book. An arrow points to the fourth line.

Sometimes the fourth line will look like this and you read it exactly like the other line.

  • ex. PN 6747 .S245 P4713 would come before PN 6747 .S245 P8, because .8 in decimal is really .800!

 

An image of a call number on a side of a book. An arrow points to the fifth line.

When you see a line near the bottom that looks like a year, it is a year! This goes in numerical order.

  • ex. If there was a book just like this except the date was 2003, it would go before the 2007 edition.

 

You could think of a call number like a detailed address in reverse: planet, country, state, city, street, street number. Each line helps you narrow down the book's exact location!

Thesis and Dissertations

UMass Dartmouth dissertations and thesis are online in our digital archives.  If you need one from 2016 or earlier, search the title or author in Primo.

Computer and Information Science Thesis (online)

How to find print books we don't own

Health Sciences and Engineering Librarian

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