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LC Classification
A - General Works
AE - Encyclopedias
B - Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
B - Philosophy
BF - Psychology
BJ - Ethics
BL - Religion
C - Auxiliary Sciences of History
- CC - Archaeology
- CS - Genealogy
- CT - Biography
D - History: World
- DA - Great Britain
- DC - France
- DD - Germany
- DF - Greece
- DG - Italy
- DK - Russia
- DP - Spain
- DS - Asia
- DT - Africa
E - History: America
- E151 - United States
F - History: America
- U.S. Local and State
- Canada
- Mexico
- Central America
- South America
G - Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
- G - Geography
- GR - Folklore
- GV - Sports & Recreation
- GV1580 - Dance
H - Social sciences
- HA - Statistics
- HB - Economics
- HD - Industry & Labor
- HF - Commerce
- HG - Finance
- HM - Sociology
J - Political Science
K - Law
L - Education
M - Music
- M - Music Scores
- ML - Literature of Music
- MT - Musical Instruction
N - Fine Arts
- NA - Architecture
- ND - Painting
P - Language and Literature
- P - Philology-Linguistics
- PA - Classical Languages
- PC - Romance Languages
- PD - Germanic Languages
- PE - English Language
- PN - Literature (General)
- PN 1625 - Theatre
- PN 1990 - Broadcasting & Film
- PQ - Romance Literatures
- PR - English Literature
- PS - American Literature
- PT - German Literature
- PZ - Children's Literature
Q - Science
- QA - Mathematics
- QA 75.5 - Computer Science
- QB - Astronomy
- QC - Physics
- QD - Chemistry
- QE - Geology
- QH - Biology
- QK - Botany
- QL - Zoology
- QP - Physiology
- QR - Microbiology
R - Medicine
- RC - Internal Medicine
- RJ - Pediatrics
- RS - Pharmacy
- RT - Nursing
S - Agriculture
T - Technology
- TR - Photography
U - Military Science
V - Naval Science
Z - Library Science (Bibliography)
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General Resources
- Acronym Finder
With more than 1,000,000 human-edited definitions, Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. - Credo Reference A digital reference library that places a world of factual information at your fingertips, offering access to over 1.7 million individual entries.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library Over 110,000 documents on many subjects
- Oxford Reference Online
A huge range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. - CIA World Factbook Geographic, demographic, economic, political, and historical information on every country in the world. PUBLIC DOMAIN.
- Infoplease Encyclopedia, almanac, atlas, biographies, dictionaries, thesaurus and other free online reference tools
- Internet Public Library: Reference A huge collection of basic online research tools such as almanacs, dictionaries and encyclopedias.
- RefDesk
"The single best source for facts" - Vehicle Fuel Economy Guide Provided by the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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