Reference Subject Guide by Location

Room 301
R030-R999 and Language Dictionaries

Bookcases around the room, starting near the exit to Room 310

31-41:  National Encyclopedias (continues from 310) R030
  31:  Italian (cont.)
  31:  Japanese
  31-32:  Polish
  32-33:  Brazilian,   Portuguese
  33-36:  Russian
  34-35:  Great Soviet Encyclopedia
  36-39:  Spanish
  39-40:  Swedish - Turkish
  40:  Ukrainian

41-59:  Encyclopedias by Subject R031-039
  41:  Information Science
  42-43:  Philosophy, Psychology R031
  43-51:  Religion R032
  43:  Baudrillart; 44:  Cabrol
  45:  Hastings
  47:  Eliade
  47:  New Catholic Encyclopedia
  49-50:  Bible dictionaries
  50:  Buddhism;  50-51:  Judaica
  51-52:  Islam
  53-54:  Social Sciences R033
  54-55:  Science and Technology R035-036; Grzimek, McGraw-Hill
  55-59:  Arts, Mythology and Archaeology R037-R039
  55:  Encyclopedia of World Art, Grove
  56-57:  Cinema, TV, Opera
  58-59:  Pauly,  Princeton E. of Classical Sites

59-70:  Biographical Dictionaries R040
  59:  Biography Index  60: Ulysse Chevalier   61:  Michaud  62: Current Biography
  62-65:  Current Biography, Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography
  67-69:  IBN
  69-70:  Nouv. Biogr. Gen.
  70:  Migne,  Poggendorff, Webster

71-98:  Biographical Dictionaries by country R041-R049
  71-72:  Dictionary of American Biography
  72:  Annual Obituary
New York Times Obituary Index (1858-1968) is on a stand on the first atlas case (Bookcase P)
  73:  Dictionary of American Scholars
  74-75:  National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
  76:  Annals of the American Pulpit
  77:  Who's Who in New York;  Canada R042
  78-81:  Great Britain & Ireland
  78-80:  Dictionary of National Biography
  81:  Australia
  81:  India,  The Royal Society
  82-84:  Germany R043
  85:  Austria, Hungary
  86:  Poland
  86-89:  France R044
  89-90:  Belgium
  90:  The Netherlands

  90-91:Italy R045
  91-92:  Iberia R046
  92:  Latin America R047
  94-96:  Scandinavia R048
  96-97:  Russia  R049
  97-98:  Turkey, South Asia

98-110, 10-14:  Periodical Indexes R050
  98:  Access, Alternative Periodicals Index
  99-100:  Catholic periodicals; Index to Black Periodicals
  100-101:  Wellesley Index, British Humanities Index
  103:  Chicano, Arabic, French
  103-105:  German  106:  Indian, Hebrew
  107:  Philippine;  107-108: American Humanities Index
  108-110:  Philosophy and religion R051-052
  110:  R052 Index to Jewish Periodicals
  10:  R058 Film and literature
  11:  Short Story Index
  13-14:  R067-R070 London Times Index;   15:  Le Temps

Reference Books by Subject
  15:  Philosophy, Psychology R100
  16-19:  Religion R200
  20-30:  Social Sciences R300 

  20:  Gallup Polls   20-21: Historical Statistics  22:  America Votes
  23-24:  Slavery; HMSO, British Parliamentary Papers indexes
  24-25:  CIS
  25-26:  Monthly Catalog
  27:  Foreign relations
  28:  Military
  29-30:  Universities; Folklore -395.
 

Continues to:
Freestanding Bookcases, 301 West

Q:  Folklore 396- ; women; linguistics R400
Q - V: Science, Arts and Literatures R500 - R899

M-O:  Res Ref  [The latest editions of directories, almanacs, yearbooks, etc.  The back issues are found in the stacks.]
  M North (window-side):  Biographies, Nat. Faculty Directory
  M South:  Directories
  N: Directories, schools, universities, Publishers' International Directory, State Bluebooks
  O North:  Press, Statistical yearbooks,
  O South: LC Subject Headings

P: Atlases Shelf # 43-55
Atlas case:  Shelf # 1-42

Index Tables, 301 West
  North:  New York Times Index, NYT Name Index
  South:  Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, Humanities and Social Science Indexes

Free-standing Bookcases, 301 East
  A - F: Language Dictionaries R Afrikaans - R Zulu
  G - L: History and Geography R900 - R999

Room 310:
R010-030 and Oversized Books

R010 - R014 Northeast Mezzanine Alcove 29
  Book review indexes
R015 National Bibliographies Northeast Mezzanine Alcoves 30-33, 33r-30r

R016.01 - R016.89 Subject Bibliographies Starts in Alcove 5 and bookcases near the exit to the corridor. Then continues to Southeast Mezzanine wall, South Mezzanine and Southwest mezzanine. Jumps back to Alcove 17 center bookcases and continues to Southeast mezzanine bookcases.

R016.9-.999 History Bibliographies Starts in Alcove 11, moves to the downstairs, to the South end of the room (under Alcove 17), continues to the walls at back of Alcoves 3 and 4. Goes around Alcove 4 and then 3.

R018 - R027 Alcoves 3 and 2
R027 - R029 Alcove 2
R030 National Encyclopedia  Alcoves 2 and 1
  Alcove 2: Americana, Appleton’s, Collier’s, Britannica
  Alcove 2/1: World Book
  Alcove 1: Czech,  Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian and Italian
  Continues in Room 301,  Bookcases 31-61

Oversized Alcoves 7-10 and 24-28:
  Starts in Alcove 7 and goes to the upstairs, bookcases between windows first and then snakes back Alcoves 24-28.

  National Union Catalog, Center of the room around the workstation table and  Alcoves 6-8.
  New York Public Library Catalog:  starts in Alcove 10 (A-Cka) then continues in Alcoves 24-28, window-side.

Updated on 09/22/2008 (J.S.)