Use the OPAC found on the library resources link to quickly find books from our hard copy collection. You will notice that as you retrieve book records from the OPAC, each and every book is assigned a shelf number as known as a class or call number. The shelf number is what you are going to use to identify the books you want on the library shelves. Our books are given shelf numbers according to the Library of Congress System. These shelf numbers keep related books together by subject. You can follow the numbers like a street address to find a family of related books all together on the shelf. So once you have found your book, it is often useful to browse the books on either side of it as well.
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Here are some of the most useful shelf numbers for Social Work
- B – BJ Philosophy, Psychology
- H – Social Sciences
| HV |
Social service, Social and public welfare & Criminology |
| 1-4 |
Periodicals |
| 10-11 |
Social work as a profession, study & teaching, social work education, research methods for social work |
| 16-28 |
Philanthropy |
| 29 |
Writing and communication skills |
| 40-41 |
General works & textbooks - theory, policy, management |
| 43 |
Social case work |
| 45 |
Social group work |
| 72-525 |
Social service by country |
| 515.5 |
Social service - New Zealand |
|
| Social service - disasters |
| 640-645 |
Refugees |
| 687-696 |
Medical/clinical social work |
| 697-700 |
Families |
| 701-1420 |
Children |
| 1421 - 1441 |
Youth |
| 1442 - 1448 |
Women |
| 1449-1493 |
Older people |
| 1551 - 3024 |
People with disabilities |
| 4023 - 4470 |
Poverty |
| 4480 - 4630 |
Homelessness |
| 4708 - 4943 |
Animal rights, ethics and welfare |
| 4997 - 5000 |
Substance abuse |
| 5001 - 5722 |
Alcoholism |
| 5800 - 5840 |
Drug abuse |
| HV |
Criminology |
| 6250 - 6250 |
Victims of crimes |
| 6251 - 6773 |
Crimes and offences |
| 6543 - 6548 |
Suicide |
| 6556 - 6593 |
Sex crimes |
| 6570 |
Sexual abuse |
| 6626.5 |
Child abuse |
| 6708 - 6722 |
Gambling |
| HV |
Criminal Justice and Administration |
| 7428 |
Social work in criminal justice |
| 7431 |
Prevention of crime |
| 7551 - 8280 |
Police |
| 8301- 9960 |
Penology. Prisons. Corrections. |
| 9051 - 9230 |
Young offenders |
| 9261 - 9430 |
Corrections reform |
| BF |
Psychology |
| 636 - 637 |
Applied Psychology |
| 637 .C |
Counselling |
| 712 - 724 |
Developmental Psychology |
| HB |
Economic theory |
| 846 - 846 |
Welfare theory |
| HM |
Sociology (General and theoretical) |
| 401 - 417 |
Periodicals |
| 425 |
Dictionaries. Encyclopaedias |
| 435 - 477 |
History of sociology |
| 481 - 538 |
Theory. Method. |
| 548 |
Economic sociology |
| 554 |
War Conflict resolution |
| 571 - 586 |
Study and teaching. Research |
| 621 - 656 |
Culture |
| 661-691 |
Social control |
| 701 |
Social systems |
| 706 |
Social structure |
| 708 |
Social capital |
| 711-753 |
Social groups |
| 756-781 |
Community |
| 786-806 |
Organizational sociology |
| 811-817 |
Deviant behaviour. Social deviance |
| 821 |
Social stratification. Social inequality. Equality |
| 826 |
Social institutions |
| 831-886 |
Social change |
| 851 |
Information society |
| 881 |
Social movements |
| 886 |
Violence |
| 1011-1281 |
Social psychology |
| HN |
Social History and Conditions. Social problems. Social Reform. |
| 1 |
Periodicals |
| 8 - 19 |
History |
| 17.5 |
Social reform literature 1945- |
| 25 |
Statistics. Social indicators. Quality of life |
| 28 |
Theory. Method. Relation to other subjects |
| 29 |
Study and teaching. Research |
| 49 .C6 |
Community development. Rural development |
| 978 - 981 |
Developing countries |
| HN |
Social History and Conditions |
| 930 |
Social history and conditions |
| HQ |
The Family |
| 503 - 1064 |
The family |
| 755.5 - 759 |
Parenthood |
| 768.8 - 792 |
Children |
| 793 - 799.2 |
Adolescence |
| 799.95 - 799.97 |
Adulthood |
| 809 - 809.3 |
Family violence |
| 1060 - 1064 |
Older people |
| 1088 - 1090 |
Men |
| 1101 - 203 |
0Women |
| LB |
Education |
| 3013.25 - 3013.5 |
Violence in schools, bullying, school social work |
| R |
Medicine and Health |
| RA 418 - 418.5 |
Medicine and society |
| RA 643.75 |
AIDS (Public aspects) |
| RA 645.3 |
Home health care services |
| RA 790 - 790.85 |
Mental health (Public aspects) |
| RC 455.4 |
Mental illness (Special aspects) |
| RC 467 |
Clinical psychology |
| RC 475 - 481 |
Counselling and psychotherapy |
| RC 488 |
Group therapy |
| RC 552. E18 |
Eating disorders |
| RC 560. S47 |
Sexual offences |
| RC 560. S47 |
Sexual offences |
| RC 563 - 568 |
Substance abuse. Addictive behaviour |
| RC 569.5. F3 |
Violence, Family |
| RC 569.7 - 574 |
Developmental disabilities |
| RC 607 |
AIDS (Medical aspects) |
| RJ 499 - 507 |
Child psychiatry |
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