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Call Numbers
To find books on the shelf at Milner Library, you will want to understand call numbers. Call numbers communicate where on a shelf a given book is located. Look at our Understanding Call Numbers guide for more detailed information. Outlined below is basic information on how to read a call number and what call number location(s) various science subjects have.
| Call Number Range | Subject | Floor in Milner |
|---|---|---|
| QH | Natural History, General Biology, Biochemistry, Evolution, Genetics, Ecology, Cell Biology | Floor 5 |
| QK | Botany, Plant Ecology | Floor 5 |
| QL | Zoology, Animal Behavior, Animal Anatomy, Parasitology, Embryology | Floor 5 |
| QM | Human Anatomy | Floor 5 |
| QP | Physiology, Animal Biochemistry | Floor 5 |
| QR | Microbiology, Immunology, Virology | Floor 5 |
| SD | Forestry | Floor 5 |
| SH | Fisheries | Floor 5 |
| SK | Wildlife Management | Floor 5 |
| TP 248 | Biotechnology | Floor 5 |
| Call Number Range | Subject | Floor in Milner |
|---|---|---|
| QD 1-70 | General Chemistry | Floor 5 |
| QD 71-145 | Analytical Chemistry | Floor 5 |
| QD 146-240 | Inorganic Chemistry | Floor 5 |
| QD 241-449 | Organic Chemistry | Floor 5 |
| QD 450-900 | Physical and Theoretical Chemistry | Floor 5 |
| QD 901-999 | Crystallography | Floor 5 |
| QH 345 | Biochemistry (General) | Floor 5 |
| QP 501-900 | Animal Biochemistry | Floor 5 |
| TP | Chemical Technology | Floor 5 |
Geography
| Call Number Range | Subject | Floor in Milner |
|---|---|---|
| G 1 - 148 | General Geography | Floor 4 |
| G 70 | Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing | Floor 4 |
| G 149 - 199 | Travel and Tourism | Floor 4 |
| G 1000 - 3159 | Atlases | Floor 4 |
| GA | Mathematical Geography and Cartography | Floor 4 |
| GB | Physical Geography | Floor 4 |
| GC | Oceanography | Floor 4 |
| GF | Human Geography | Floor 4 |
| QC 851+ | Meteorology and Climatology | Floor 5 |
Geology
| Call Number Range | Subject | Floor in Milner |
|---|---|---|
| QE 1 - 10 | General Geology | Floor 5 |
| QE 11 - 22 | History of Geology and Biographies | Floor 5 |
| QE 65 - 350 | Geographical Divisions | Floor 5 |
| QE 105 - 110 | Illinois, Indiana | Floor 5 |
| QE 351 - 399 | Minerology | Floor 5 |
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QE 420 - 499, TN 810 - 879, TP 690 - 692 |
Petrology | Floor 5 |
| QE 500 - 625 | Dynamic and Structural Geology | Floor 5 |
| QE 640 - 699 | Stratigraphy | Floor 5 |
| QE 701 - 996 |
Paleotology, Paleoecology, Paleozoology, Paleobotany |
Floor 5 |
| GB 5000 - 5014 |
Natural Disasters |
Floor 4 |
Environment
| Call Number Range | Subject | Floor in Milner |
|---|---|---|
| DOC. EP | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Documents | Floor 4 |
| DOC. I | U.S. Dept. of Interior (Fish & Wildlife Service, National Park Service) Documents | Floor 4 |
| GE | Environmental Science | Floor 4 |
| GF | Human Ecology | Floor 4 |
| HB 849 - 875 | Population | Floor 4 |
| HC 79 .E5 | Environmental Policy | Floor 4 |
| KF 3775 - 3790 | Environmental Law | Floor 5 |
| QH 75 - 77 | Biodiversity Conservation | Floor 5 |
| RA | Public Health, Toxicology | Floor 5 |
| S 900 - 949 | Conservation of Natural Resources | Floor 5 |
| SD | Forestry | Floor 5 |
| SH | Fisheries | Floor 5 |
| SK | Wildlife Management | Floor 5 |
| TD | Environmental Protection | Floor 5 |
| Call Number Range | Subject | Floor in Milner |
|---|---|---|
| QB | Astronomy | Floor 5 |
| QC 1 - 80 | General Physics | Floor 5 |
| QC 16 | Biographies | Floor 5 |
| QC 21 - 23 | Physics Textbooks | Floor 5 |
| QC 81 - 119 | Weights and Measures | Floor 5 |
| QC 120 - 169 | Descriptive and Experimental Mechanics | Floor 5 |
| QC 170 - 219 | Atomic Physics and Matter | Floor 5 |
| QC 220 - 250 | Acoustics and Sound | Floor 5 |
| QC 251 - 349 | Heat | Floor 5 |
| QC 350 - 473 | Optics, Light, Spectroscopy, Holography | Floor 5 |
| QC 474 - 500 | Radiation Physics | Floor 5 |
| QC 501 - 769 | Electricity and Magnetism | Floor 5 |
| QC 770 - 800 | Nuclear and Particle Physics and Radioactivity | Floor 5 |
| QC 801 - 850 | Geophysics and Geomagnetism | Floor 5 |
| QC 851+ | Meteorology and Climatology | Floor 5 |
Unlike the general shelves in Milner Library, PK-12 materials located in the Teaching Materials Center (TMC) on floor 6 use the Dewey Decimal System. These call numbers look different than those above.
For science non-fiction materials in the Teaching Materials Center, most will be in TMC 500-599 which is dedicated to natural sciences and mathematics. Other areas of non-fiction such as biographies may be of interest.
| Call Number Locations | Subject |
|---|---|
| TMC 520-529 | Astronomy & allied sciences |
| TMC 530-539 | Physics |
| TMC 540-549 | Chemistry & allied sciences |
| TMC 550-559 | Earth sciences |
| TMC 560-569 | Paleontology & Paleozoology |
| TMC 570-579 | Life sciences |
| TMC 580-589 | Botanical sciences |
| TMC 590-599 | Zoological sciences |
