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Secondary Science

A guide for students in any secondary science teacher education program with information on using library materials and science education resources in both class and practical applications.

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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

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.

TMC Call Number Explanation

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

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