HIST 299: Fall 2025

Visit Search.Libraries to find books, journal articles, scores, audio, video, and more—all from a single integrated starting point. 

• Was the book published by an academic press? (e.g. Oxford University Press, St. Martin's Press, etc.) If it's not immediately obvious that the press is academic, you can google it to learn more. 
• Is the book asking an academic research question and using scholarly methods to answer it? 
• Does it use footnotes or another form of citation to allow readers to trace the evidence used to its original context? 
• Is the author a professional researcher? 

Two major call number systems are used in the libraries: the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress classification schemes. As it appears on a physical item, the first line of a call number is a broad subject classification. The subsequent lines combine letters and numbers to organize items into narrower, related categories.

See How to Read Call Numbers from the University of Berkeley Library for more details about LC call numbers.