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LC classification the Arts & Sciences Team does catalog:

• PA: classical philology
• PB: Celtic languages
• PC: Romance languages
• PD: Germanic languages (Old Gmerna dialects, Scandinavian languages)
• PE: English language
• PF: West Germanic (Dutch, German)
• PG: Slavic, Baltic, Albanian (only if the book is in a Western European language, e.g. a book of Tolstoy in English)
• PH: Finno-Ugrian languages, including Basque (only if the book is in a Western European language, including Basque)
• PJ: Middle Eastern languages & literature (only if the book is in a Western European or non-Semitic language, e.g. Egypttian)
• PK Indo-Iranian languages & literature (except tiltes in Armenian, Caucasian, georgian and other languages used in the former Soviet Union)
• PL East Asian, African, and Ocean languages & literature (except titles in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean)
• PL101-PL199: all titles in Turkish
• PM: Hyperborean (Arctic), Native American, and artificial languages & literature
• PN: Literature (General; includes books about journalism)
• PQ: Romance literature
• PR: English literature
• PS: American literature
• PT: Germanic literature
• PZ Juvenile literature and belles lettres (however, SML Cataloging does not use this LC class!)
• Q: Science & Cybernetics
• QA: Mathematics
• QB: Astronomy
• QC: Physics
• QD: Chemistry
• QE: Human anatomy
• QP: Physiology
• QR: Microbiology
• R: Medicine
• S: Agriculture
• T: Technology
• U: Military Science
• V: Naval Science
• Z: Bibliography and Library Science

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The content on this page is a newly formatted version of Steven Arakawa's earlier documentation.