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!
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.
Here are just a few examples of the print and e-book collection we have!
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
Here's a quick guide on how to read call numbers in our library (and most other academic libraries).
The first line is read in alphabetical order.
Read the second line in numerical order.
The third line is tricky. Read the letter in alphabetical order then the number as a decimal.
Sometimes the fourth line will look like this and you read it exactly like the other line.
When you see a line near the bottom that looks like a year, it is a year! This goes in numerical order.
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!
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.
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