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Scope note: Below is a brief guide to some of the subject areas represented in the Social Work Library's collections. This guide presents an alphabetical list of broad topics with the appropriate call number stem. Use these number stems to browse the book shelves. Please remember that this is not a comprehensive listing of the library's collections. Use the catalog, Mirlyn, to determine specific subjects or items stored in the Social Work Library or other campus libraries.
The subjects listed here are valid subject terms which can be used in Mirlyn "Subject begins with . . ." searching. Some of the topics listed have links to selective bibliographies prepared by library staff. Additional information on the call number system is available below.
 Adoption |
HV 875 | Mental Health Services | RA 790 |
| Adventure Therapy | GV, LB 1047 | Nonprofit Organizations | HD 62.6, HF 5686 |
| Aged | HV 1451, HQ 1061 | Personnel Management | HF 5549 |
| Aged--Abuse of | HV 6626.3, HV 1451 | Post-traumatic Stress Disorder |
RC 552 |
| AIDS (Disease) | RA 644 | Poverty | HC 79, HC 110 |
| Substance Abuse | HV 5045, HV 5275, RC 565 | Proposal Writing for Grants | HG 177, HV 41 |
| Autism | RC 553, RJ506 | Psychological Tests | BF 176 |
| Behavior Therapy | RC 489 | Psychotherapy | RC 480, 488 |
| Bereavement |
BF 575 | Public Welfare -- United States | HV 95 |
| Biography | CT 210, HV 27 | Religion | BF 637, HV 530, RC 489 |
| Charities--United States | HV 91 | Résumés | HF 5383 |
| Child Abuse | HV 713, HV 6626.5 | Same-sex Marriage | HQ 76.3 |
| Child Welfare | HV 713, 715 | School Social Work | LB 3013.4-3013.5 |
| Community Organization | HN 90, HV 41 | School Violence | LB 3013.3 |
| Conflict management | HD 42, HM 136 | Self-help Groups | HV 547 |
| Crime | HV 6251, 6045 | Sex Crimes | HQ 72 |
| Cross-cultural Counseling | BF 637, RC 466 | Sexual Abuse Victims | RC 560 |
| Death |
BF 789, HQ 1073 | Social Group Work | HV 45 |
| Depression, Mental | RC 537 | Social Justice | HM 216 |
| Disability Studies | HV 1568 | Social Policy | HN 17 |
| Divorce | HQ 814, 819 | Social Problems | HN 18, HN 59.2 |
| Drug Abuse | HV 5801, RC 564 | Social Science -- Research | H 62, HM 48 |
| Dual Diagnosis | RC 564 | Social Security | HD 7091 |
| Evaluation Research (Social Action Programs) | H 62 | Social Service -- Research | HV 11, HV 40 |
| Family Violence | HQ 809, HV 6626 | Social Work Education | HV 11 |
| Foster Home Care | HV 875 | Social Work with Children | HV 713 |
| Fund Raising | HG 177 | Social Work with Lesbians | HV 1449 |
| Gay Men | HQ 76, RC 451 | Social Work with Minorities | HV 3176 |
| Gerontology | HQ 1061-1064 | Social Work with Youth | HV 713, HV 1421 |
| Grief | BF 575 | Sociology | HM |
| Health Care Reform | RA 395 | Statistics | HA |
| Homelessness | HV 4505, 4493 | Substance Abuse | RC 564, HV 4998 |
| Housing Policy | HD 7287 | Suicide | HV 6545, RC 569 |
| Job Hunting | HF 5382-5386 | Teenage Pregnancy | HQ 759.4 |
| Juvenile
Justice |
HV 9069, HV 877 | Transsexualism | HQ 77.7 |
| Managed Care Plans | RA 413 | Urban Policy | HT |
| Marriage | HQ 734 | Violence | HM 281, RC 569, BF 575 |
| Medicaid | HD 7102 | Women | HQ 1154-1233 |
| Medical Social Work | HV 687.5, RA 965 | Youth, Services for | HV 741, 1431 |
Call numbers are used as a shelf address for library materials, similar to a street address. A typical call number combines letters and numbers, and looks like this:
| HV | 11 | .S45 | 1996 |
The numbering system used in the Social Work Library is based on a classification system developed at the Library of Congress. It organizes the library materials into branches of knowledge or common subject groupings, as well as defines the shelf address for individual items. For example, items dealing with the subject of "social work education" are grouped together as:
| H | (social sciences) |
| V | (social pathology, social & public welfare, criminology) |
| 11 | (social work education - general works) |
Books in the Social Work Library are shelved using call numbers, as described above, both in an alphabetical arrangement and in numeric order. Hence, books with a BF call number are shelved before books with HF call numbers, and HF's are before HV books. The numbers after the initial letters are in basic numeric order -- 11 comes before 12, 100 follows 99, etc. The next segment or section of the call number is letters and numbers, and is filed differently. These are sorted first by the letter and then by the number as a decimal. Thus, HV 11 .B14 comes before HV 11 .B144 on the shelf, and HV 11 .S1 comes before HV 11.2 .A1. Other sections of a call number may include additional letter/number combinations or dates.
When using Mirlyn, the library location, call number, and availability are indicated. The information is displayed like this:
| LOCATION | COLLECTION | CALL NUMBER | STATUS/DUE DATE |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOCIAL WORK | HV 11 .S45 | On shelf |
You need to jot down the location (which could include specific collection locations) and the call number in order to find the material. If an item is not available for use because another person has borrowed it, the STATUS/DUE DATE message will indicate a date when the item is due back in the Social Work Library.
Periodicals in the Social Work Library are shelved by journal title, not by call number. The information displayed in Mirlyn might look like this:
| LOCATION | COLLECTION | CALL NUMBER | VOL.:ISSUE | STATUS/DUE DATE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOCIAL WORK | Unbound Periodicals | HQ 1 .A58 | v.28, n.1 | On shelf/No Loan |
If you have questions about how to find materials in the Social Work Library, please ask the library staff for assistance.
Content last updated on: 7 June 2005
Created by: Karen Reiman-Sendi; Converted by Jamie Nielsen 10/16/07
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