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Art + Design: Ceramics

New Books

Here are some recent purchases related to ceramics!

Relevant Call Numbers

If you browse the general collection in the following sections, you'll likely run across some useful and interesting books related to ceramics:

 

3rd Floor:

NK – Decorative arts

NK 3700-4695 – Ceramics

5th Floor:

TP – Chemical Technology

          TP 785-869 – Clay industries. Ceramics. Glass

TT – Handicrafts. Arts and crafts

          TT 697-927 Home arts. Homecrafts (including sewing, embroidery, decorative crafts)

 

Click here to get a more thorough description of all the call numbers.

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!