Use this subject guide if you are interested in browsing through the Otis Library's book collection. The beginning call number is given for each subject. (Note: not all subjects are contained in this guide, just those that appear often in this library's collection).
For more information on how a call number is constructed, see here.
Call Number Subject Guide
A - General Works (includes Encyclopedias, Dictionaries)
B - Philosophy
BD - Logic
BF - Psychology
BL - Religion & Theology
BX - Mythology
D - General World History
E - History of the Americas
* 51 to 99 -- Native Americans
* 169.02 -- American Popular Culture
* 184 -- Racial & Ethnic Groups in the US
F - Regional History of the United States
(also History of the Americas continued)
* 856 to 870 -- California & Los Angeles (Travel, History, Pictorial Works)
* 1201 to 1577 -- Mexico, Central & South America (includes Aztec, Mayan & other early civilizations)
G - Geography, Maps
GN - Anthropology
GT - Costume (History of Dress) & Customs
* 2345 -- Tattoos
* 3912 to 3913 -- Graffiti
GV - Dance & Sports
H - Social Sciences
HF - Business
* 5415.153 -- Inventions and new product marketing
* 5801 to 6191 -- Advertising (includes Signs & Billboards)
HQ - Sexuality, the Family & Women's Studies
* 784 T68 -- Toys & Child Development
LB - Education
* 2369 -- Research Handbooks & Style Manuals
M - Music
N - Visual Arts
* 72 -- Art in Relation to other Subjects (Feminism, Politics, Society, etc.)
* 400 -- Art Museums, Galleries, etc.
* 4390 -- Exhibitions
* 5300 - 6494 -- History of Art (by period)
* 5315 to 6320 --- Ancient & Medieval
* 6370 to 6375 --- 15th & 16th centuries
* 6407 to 6415 --- 17th & 18th centuries
* 6450 to 6465 --- 19th century
* 6480 to 6494 --- 20th century
o 6494 I56 ---- Installation
o 6494 V53 ---- Video Art (see also PN 1992.8 V5)
* 6501 to 7414 -- Special Countries
* 6505 to 6538 --- Art & Artists in the United States
* 7429.7 -- Technique, Composition, Style
* 7432.5 -- Outsider Art
* 7433.3 -- Artists' Books
* 7475 -- Art Criticism
* 7560 to 8266 -- Special Subjects of Art
* 7575 to 7649 --- Portraits
* 7790 --- Religious Art
* 8217 E6 --- Erotic Art
* 8554 -- Examination & Conservation of Works of Art
* 8600 -- Economics of Art
* 8700 -- Art and the State. Public Art
NA - Architecture
* 190 - 682 -- History (by period)
* 710 to 738 --- Architecture & Architects in the US
* 4100 -- Special Types of Buildings
* 9000 -- Aesthetics of Cities. City Planning and Beautification
NB - Sculpture
NC - Drawing, Design & Illustration
* 50 to 263 -- History of Drawing
* 730 to 817 -- Technique
* 760 to 776 --- Human Figure - Anatomy
* 965 -- Children's Book Illustration
* 997 -- Commercial Art & Advertising Art
* 1300 -- Caricature. Pictorial Humor and Satire
* 1429 -- Comic Book & Cartoon Artists (see also PN 6710 - 6728)
* 1800 -- Posters
* 1882 -- Album Covers
ND - Painting
* 49 to 199 -- History (by period)
* 195 to 196 --- 20th century
* 230 to 238 --- Painting & Painters in the United States
* 1290 to 1337 --- Human Figure, Nudes, etc.
* 1340 to 1375 --- Landscape/Marine
* 1390 to 1393 --- Still Life
* 1470 to 1495 -- Technique (includes Composition & Color)
* 1700 -- Watercolor Painting
* 2550 to 2876 -- Mural Painting (includes Contemporary Street Art)
* 2890 -- Illuminating of Manuscripts and Books
NE - Print Media
* 2250 -- Lithography
* 2800 -- Printing of Engravings
NK - Decorative Arts, Applied Arts, Decoration & Ornament (includes Antiques in general)
* 600 to 789 -- History (by period)
* 802 to 839 --- Decorative Arts in the US - Folk Art, Antiques
* 1390 -- General design (material that includes both decorative & industrial)
* 1505 to 1590 -- Ornament, Pattern & Design
* 1700 to 2195 -- Interior Decoration & House Decoration
* 2200 to 2750 -- Furniture
* 3600 to 3640 -- Calligraphy, Alphabets & Decorative Lettering (see GT 3912 for Graffiti & Z 250 for Typography)
* 4700 -- Costume and its Accessories
* 4892 to 4894.4 -- Dolls & Dollhouses (see HQ 784 T68 for Toys & Child Development or TT 174 for Toy Making)
* 8800 -- Textile Arts and Art Needlework
* 9509 -- Toys
NX - Arts in General (includes works dealing with two or more of the fine arts, i.e. Art & Film, Art & Music, etc.)
* 440 to 458 -- History
* 502 to 512.3 --- Arts in the United States
* 600 -- Special Movements
* 600 P47 --- Performance Art
* 600 S9 --- Surrealism (see also N 6494 & ND 195 S8)
* 654 -- Religious Arts
* 700 -- Patronage of the Arts
PN - TV, Theater, Plays, Motion Pictures
PR - English Literature
PS - American Literature
QA - Mathematics & Computer Science
* 76.75 -- Computer Software (see also T 385 for Computer Graphics, TK 5105.882 for the Internet & TR 897.5 for Computer Animation)
QB- Astronomy
QH - Natural History
* 90 to 95 -- Water & Marine Biology (includes Pictorial Works)
* 101 to 198 -- Topographical Regions (includes Landscape Pictorial Works, see also TR 660 for Landscape Photography and F 1 to F 975 for Travel - Descriptive Works)
* 540 to 549 -- Ecology
QK - Botany (Plants)
QL - Zoology (Animals)
QM - Anatomy
QP - Physiology
SB - Agriculture/Plant Culture
* 469 to 479 -- Landscape Gardening & Design
T - Technology
* 180 -- Exhibitions that highlight the developments & history of industrial design
* 201 to 339 -- Patents & Trademarks (see also NC 1002 - 1003)
* 385 -- Computer Graphics (see also QA 76.75 for Computer Software, TK 5105.882 for the Internet & TR 897.5 for Computer Animation)
TA - Technology (Engineering)
* 166 Ergonomics and human factors research
TK - Electronics
* 5105 -- Specific Aspects of the Internet
TR - Photography
* 15 to 195 -- History
* 660 -- Landscape Photography
* 676 -- Erotic Photography
* 679 -- Fashion Photography
* 680 -- Portrait Photography
* 690.6 -- Stock Photography
* 721 to 739 -- Nature Photography
* 820 -- Photojournalism
* 845 to 899 -- Cinematography
* 858 --- Special Effects
* 897.5 --- Computer Animation
TS - Manufactured Products
* 23 -- History of industrial design in the US
* 57 -- History of industrial design in the UK
* 79 -- History of industrial design in Italy (and so forth)
* 140 -- Biographies of individual designers
* 144-149 -- General works covering industrial design
* 155 -- Production and operations management
* 171 -- Product design
* 1090 to 1130 -- Paper Making
TT - Handicrafts
* 174 to 175 -- Toy & Doll Making (see also HQ 784 T68 for Toys & Child Development or NK 4892 & NK 9509 for Toy History & Price Guides)
* 490 to 695 -- Fashion & Clothing Design
* 505 -- Individual Designers (includes biographies)
Z - Books (Library Science & Bibliography)
* 40 to 115 -- Writing (see also NK 3600 for Calligraphy & Lettering)
* 116 to 265 -- Printing
* 250 --- Type Founding & Typography
* 266 to 276 -- Bookbinding
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