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Call Numbers (Library of Congress Classification): H

The Mountain View College Library organizes its books according to the Library of Congress (LC) Classification System. This guide will describe what each range of the LC call numbers means,

Class H -- Social Sciences

H--Social sciences (General)

HA--Statistics

HB--Economic theory. Demography

HC--Economic history and conditions

HD--Industries. Land use. Labor

HE--Transportation and communications

HF--Commerce

HG--Finance

HJ--Public finance

HM--Sociology (General)

HN--Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform

HQ--The family. Marriage. Women

HS--Societies: secret, benevolent, etc.

HT--Communities. Classes. Races

HV--Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology

HX--Socialism. Communism. Anarchism

Subclasses

H1-99--Social sciences (General)

HA1-4737--Statistics

HA29-32--Theory and method of social science statistics

HA36-37--Statistical services.  Statistical bureaus

HA38-39--Registration of vital events.  Vital records

HA154-4737--Statistical data

HA154-155--Universal statistics

HA175-473--By region or country

HB1-3840--Economic theory.  Demography

HB71-74--Economics as a science.  Relation to other subjects

HB75-130--History of economics.  History of economic theory

Including special economic schools

HB131-147--Methodology

HB135-147--Mathematical economics.  Quantitative methods

Including econometrics, input-output analysis, game theory

HB201-206--Value.  Utility

HB221-236--Price

HB238-251--Competition.  Production.  Wealth

HB501--Capital.  Capitalism

HB522-715--Income.  Factor shares

HB535-551--Interest

HB601--Profit

HB615-715--Entrepreneurship.  Risk and uncertainty.  Property

HB801-843--Consumption.  Demand

HB846-846.8--Welfare theory

HB848-3697--Demography.  Population.  Vital events

HB3711-3840--Business cycles.  Economic fluctuations

HC10-1085--Economic history and conditions

HC79--Special topics

Including air pollution, automation, consumer demand, famines, flow of funds, etc.

HC92--Economic geography of the oceans (General)

HC94-1085--By region or country

HD28-9999--Industries.  Land use.  Labor

HD28-70--Management.  Industrial management

HD39-40.7--Capital.  Capital investments

HD41--Competition

HD45-45.2--Technological innovations.  Automation

HD47-47.4--Costs

HD49-49.5--Crisis management.  Emergency management.  Inflation

HD50-50.5--Delegation of authority.  Decentralization.  Span of control

HD56-57.5--Industrial productivity

HD58--Location of industry

HD58.7-58.95--Organizational behavior, change and effectiveness.  Corporate culture

HD59-59.6--Public relations.  Industrial publicity

HD60-60.5--Social responsibility of business

HD61--Risk in industry.  Risk management

HD62--Standardization.  Simplification.  Waste

HD62.2-62.8--Management of special enterprises

HD66-66.2--Work groups.  Team work in industry.  Quality circles

HD69--Other

Including business consultants, capacity, size of industries, etc.

HD72-88--Economic growth, development, planning

HD101-1395.5--Land use.  Land tenure

HD1286-1289--Communal ownership

HD1290-1291--Municipal ownership

HD1301-1313--Nationalization (Agrarian socialism)

HD1326-1329--Large holdings

HD1330-1331--Landlord and peasant

HD1332-1333.5--Land reform.  Agrarian reform

HD1334-1335--Consolidation of land holdings

HD1336-1339--Small holdings.  Peasant proprietors.  Parcellation

HD1361-1395.5--Real estate business

HD1401-2210--Agriculture

HD1428-1431--International cooperation

HD1470-1476--Size of farms

HD1478--Sharecropping

HD1483-1486--Agricultural associations, societies, etc.

HD1491-1491.5--Cooperative agriculture

HD1492-1492.5--Collective farms

HD1493-1493.5--Government owned and operated farms.  State farms.  Sovkhozes

HD1501-1542--Agricultural classes

Including farm tenancy, agricultural laborers

HD1549--Gleaning

HD1580--Reclamation of agricultural land.  Melioration

HD1635-1702--Utilization and culture of special classes of lands

Including pasture lands, water resources development

HD1711-1741--Irrigation

HD2321-4730.9--Industry

HD2329--Industrialization

HD2330--Rural industries

HD2331-2336--Home labor.  Home-based businesses

HD2337-2339--Sweatshops

HD2340.8-2346.5--Small and medium-sized businesses, artisans, handicrafts, trades

HD2350.8-2356--Large industry.  Factory system.  Big business

HD2365-2385--Contracting.  Letting of contracts

HD2421-2429--Trade associations

HD2709-2930.7--Corporations

Including international business enterprises, diversification, industrial concentration, public utilities

HD2951-3575--Cooperation.  Cooperative societies

HD3611-4730.9--Industrial policy.  The state and industrial organization

Including licensing of occupations and professions, subsidies, inspection, government ownership, municipal services

HD4801-8943--Labor.  Work.  Working class

HD4861-4895--Labor systems

HD4909-5100.9--Wages

HD5106-5267--Hours of labor

Including overtime, shift work, sick leave, vacations

HD5306-5474--Labor disputes.  Strikes and lockouts

HD5481-5630.7--Industrial arbitration.  Mediation  and conciliation

HD5650-5660--Employee participation in management.  Employee ownership.  Industrial democracy.  Works councils

HD5701-6000.9--Labor market.  Labor supply.  Labor demand

Including unemployment, manpower policy, occupational training, employment agencies

HD6050-6305--Classes of labor

Including women, children, students, middle-aged and older persons, minorities

HD6350-6940.7--Trade unions.  Labor unions.  Workers' associations

HD6941-6948--Employers' associations

HD6951-6957--Industrial sociology.  Social conditions of labor

HD6958.5-6976--Industrial relations

HD6977-7080--Cost and standard of living

HD7088-7252--Social insurance.  Social security.  Pension

HD7255-7256--Vocational rehabilitation.  Employment of people with disabilities

HD7260-7780.8--Industrial hygiene. Industrial welfare

HD7795-8027--Labor policy.  Labor and the state

HD8031--Labor in politics.  Political activity of the working class

HD8038--Professions (General).  Professional employees

HD8039--By industry or trade

HD8045-8943--By region or country

HD9000-9999--Special industries and trades

HD9000-9495--Agricultural industries

HD9502-9502.5--Energy industries.  Energy policy.  Fuel trade

HD9506-9624--Mineral industries.  Metal trade

HD9650-9663--Chemical industries

HD9665-9675--Pharmaceutical industry

HD9680-9714--Mechanical industries

Including electric utilities, electronic industries, and machinery

HD9715-9717.5--Construction industry

HD9720-9975--Manufacturing industries

HD9999--Miscellaneous industries and trades

HE1-9990--Transportation and communications

HE199-199.5--Freight (General)

HE199.9--Passenger traffic (General)

HE305-311--Urban transportation

HE323-328--Transportation geography.  Trade routes

HE331-380--Traffic engineering.  Roads and highways.  Streets

HE369-373--Traffic surveys (General)

HE374-377--Bridges

HE379-380--Tunnels.  Vehicular tunnels

HE380.8-971--Water transportation

HE380.8-560--Waterways

HE561-971--Shipping

HE730-943--Merchant marine.  Ocean shipping.  Coastwise shipping

HE1001-5600--Railroads.  Rapid transit systems

HE5601-5725--Automotive transportation

Including trucking, bus lines, and taxicab service

HE5746-5749--Stage lines

HE5751-5870--Ferries

HE5880-5990--Express service

HE6000-7500--Postal service.  Stamps.  Philately

HE7511-7549--Pneumatic service

HE7601-8700.9--Telecommunication industry.  Telegraph

HE8660-8688--Wireless telegraph.  Radiotelegraphy

HE8689-8700.95--Radio and television broadcasting

HE8701-9680.7--Telephone industry

HE9713-9715--Cellular telephone services industry.  Wireless telephone industry

HE9719-9721--Artificial satellite telecommunications

HE9723-9737--Signaling

HE9751-9756--Messenger service

HE9761-9900--Air transportation.  Airlines

HF1-6182--Commerce

HF294-343--Boards of trade.  Chambers of commerce.  Merchants' associations

HF1014--Balance of trade

HF1021-1027--Commercial geography.  Economic geography

HF1040-1054--Commodities.  Commercial products

HF1701-2701--Tariff.  Free trade.  Protectionism

HF3000-4055--By region or country

HF5001-6182--Business

HF5381-5386--Vocational guidance.  Career devlopment

HF5387-5387.5--Business ethics

HF5410-5417.5--Marketing.  Distribution of products

HF5419-5422--Wholesale trade

HF5428-5429.6--Retail trade

HF5429.7-5430.6--Shopping centers.  Shopping malls

HF5437-5444--Purchasing.  Selling.  Sales personnel.  Sales executives

HF5446-5459--Canvassing.  Peddling

HF5460-5469.5--Department stores.  Mail order business.  Supermarkets.  Convenience stores

HF5469.7-5481-- --Markets.  Fairs

HF5482-5482.4--Secondhand trade

HF5482.6-5482.65--Black market

HF5484-5495--Warehouses.  Storage

HF5520-5541--Office equipment and supplies

HF5546-5548.6--Office management

HF5548.7-5548.85--Industrial psychology

HF5549-5549.5--Personnel management.  Employment management

HF5601-5689--Accounting.  Bookkeeping

HF5691-5716--Business mathematics.  Commercial arithmetic

Including tables, etc.

HF5717-5734.7--Business communication

Including business report writing, business correspondence

HF5735-5746--Business records management

HF5761-5780--Shipment of goods.  Delivery of goods

HF5801-6182--Advertising

HG1-9999--Finance

HG178--Liquidity

HG179--Personal finance

HG201-1496--Money

HG258-312--Precious metals.  Bullion

HG315--Small coins

HG321-329--Mints.  Assaying

HG335-339--Counterfeiting

HG348-353.5--Paper money

HG361-363--Legal tender

HG381-395--International coinage

HG401-421--Bimetallism

HG451-1496--By region or country

HG1501-3550--Banking

HG1621-1638--Interest rates.  Interest tables

HG1641-1643--Bank loans.  Bank credit.  Commercial loans

HG1651-1654--Discount

HG1655--Acceptances

HG1656--Bank reserves.  Bank liquidity.  Loan loss reserves

HG1660--Bank accounts.  Bank deposits.  Deposit banking

HG1662--Insurance of deposits.  Deposit insurance

HG1685-1704--Drafts.  Checks

HG1706-1708--Accounting.  Bookkeeping

HG1709--Data processing

HG1710-1710.5--Electronic funds transfers

HG1722--Bank mergers

HG1723--Bank stocks.  Banking as an investment

HG1725-1778--Banks and the state.  State supervision of banks

HG1811-2351--Special classes of banks and financial institutions

HG2397-3550--By region or country

HG3691-3769--Credit.  Debt.  Loans

Including credit institutions, credit instruments, consumer credit, bankruptcy

HG3810-4000--Foreign exchange.  International finance.  International monetary system

HG4001-4285--Finance management.  Business finance.  Corporation finance

HG4301-4480.9--Trust services.  Trust companies

HG4501-6051--Investment, capital formation, speculation

HG4530--Investment companies.  Investment trusts.  Mutual funds

HG4538--Foreign investments

HG4551-4598--Stock exchanges

HG4621--Stockbrokers.  Security dealers.  Investment advisers

HG4701-4751--Government securities.  Industrial securities.  Venture capital

HG4900-5993--By region or country

HG6001-6051--Speculation

HG6105-6270.9--Lotteries

HG8011-9999--Insurance

HG8053.5-8054.45--Insurance for professions.  Malpractice insurance.  Professional liability insurance

HG8059--Business insurance

HG8075-8107--Insurance business.  Insurance management

HG8111-8123--Government policy.  State supervision

HG8205-8220--Government insurance

HG8501-8745--By region or country

HG8751-9295--Life insurance

HG8779-8793--Actuarial science.  Statistical theory and methodology applied to insurance

HG8799-8830--By class insured, by risk, by plan

HG8835-8899--Life insurance business.  Management

HG8901-8914--Government policy.  State supervision

HG8941-9200.5--By region or country

HG9201-9245--Mutual life insurance.  Assessment life insurance.  Fraternal life insurance

HG9251-9262--Industrial life insurance

HG9271--Child insurance.  Life insurance for children

HG9291-9295--Maternity insurance

HG9301-9343--Accident insurance

HG9371-9399--Health insurance

HG9651-9899--Fire insurance

HG9956-9969--Casualty insurance

HG9969.5-9999--Other insurance

Including automobile, burglary, credit, disaster, title insurance

HJ9-9940--Public finance

HJ9-99.8--Periodicals.  Serials.  By region or country

HJ210-240--History

HJ241-1620--By region or country

HJ2005-2216--Income and expenditure.  Budget

HJ2240-5908--Revenue.  Taxation.  Internal revenue

HJ2321-2323--Tax incidence.  Tax shifting.  Tax equity

HJ2326-2327--Progressive taxation

HJ2336-2337--Tax exemption

HJ2338--Taxation of government property

HJ2351--Inflation and taxation

HJ2351.4--Tax revenue estimating

HJ2361-3192.7--By region or country     

HJ3801-3844--Revenue from sources other than taxation

HJ3863-3925--Direct taxation

HJ4113-4601--Property tax

HJ4629-4830--Income tax

HJ4919-4936--Capitation.  Poll tax

HJ5309-5510--Administrative fees.  User charges.  License fees

HJ6603-7390--Customs administration

HJ7461-7980--Expenditures.  Government spending

HJ8001-8899--Public debts

HJ8052--Sinking funds.  Amortization

HJ8101-8899--By region or country

HJ9103-9695--Local finance.  Municipal finance

Including the revenue, budget, expenditure, etc. of counties, boroughs, communes, municipalities, etc.

HJ9701-9940--Public accounting.  Auditing

HM(1)-1281--Sociology

(HM1-299)--These are obsolete numbers no longer used by the Library of Congress

HM435-477--History of sociology.  History of sociological theory

HM461-473--Schools of sociology.  Schools of social thought

HM481-554--Theory.  Method.  Relations to other subjects

HM621-656--Culture

HM661-696--Social control

HM701--Social systems

HM706--Social structure

HM711-806--Groups and organizations

HM756-781--Community

HM786-806--Organizational sociology.  Organization theory

HM811-821--Deviant behavior.  Social deviance

HM826--Social institutions

HM831-901--Social change

HM1001-1281--Social psychology

HM1041-1101--Social perception.  Social cognition

Including perception of the self and others, prejudices, stereotype

HM1106-1171--Interpersonal relations.  Social behavior

HM1176-1281--Social influence.  Social pressure

HN1-995--Social history and conditions.  Social problems.  Social reform

HN30-39--The church and social problems

HN41-46--Community centers.  Social centers

HN50-995--By region or country

HQ1-2044--The Family.  Marriage.  Women

HQ12-449--Sexual life

HQ19-30.7--Sexual behavior and attitudes.  Sexuality

HQ31-64--Sex instruction and sexual ethics

HQ71-72--Sexual deviations

HQ74-74.2--Bisexuality

HQ75-76.8--Homosexuality.  Lesbianism

HQ77-77.2--Transvestism

HQ77.7-77.95--Transexualism

HQ79--Sadism.  Masochism.  Fetishism, etc.

HQ101-440.7--Prostitution

HQ447--Masturbation

HQ449--Emasculation.  Eunuchs, etc.

HQ450-472--Erotica

HQ503-1064--The family.  Marriage.  Home

HQ750-755.5--Eugenics

HQ755.7-759.92--Parents.  Parenthood

Including parent and child, husbands, fathers, wives, mothers

HQ760-767.7--Family size

HQ767.8-792.2--Children.  Child development

Including child rearing, child life, play, socialization, children's rights

HQ793-799.2--Youth.  Adolescents.  Teenagers

HQ799.5-799.9--Young men and women

HQ799.95-799.97--Adulthood

HQ800-800.4--Single people

HQ801-801.83--Man-woman relationships.  Courtship.  Dating

HQ802--Matrimonial bureaus.  Marriage brokerage

HQ802.5--Matrimonial advertisements

HQ803--Temporary marriage.  Trial marriage.  Companionate marriage

HQ804--Breach of promise

HQ805--Desertion

HQ806--Adultery

HQ811-960.7--Divorce

HQ961-967--Free love

HQ981-996--Polygamy

HQ997--Polyandry

HQ998-999--Illegitimacy.  Unmarried mothers

HQ1001-1006--The state and marriage

HQ1051-1057--The church and marriage

HQ1058-1058.5--Widows and widowers.  Widowhood

HQ1060-1064--Aged.  Gerontology (Social aspects).  Retirement

HQ1073-1073.5--Thanatology.  Death.  Dying

HQ1075-1075.5--Sex role

HQ1088-1090.7--Men

HQ1101-2030.7--Women.  Feminism

HQ1871-2030.7--Women's clubs

HQ2035-2039--Life skills.  Coping skills.  Everyday living skills

HQ2042-2044--Life style

HS1-3371--Societies: secret, benevolent, etc.

HS101-330.7--Secret societies

HS351-929--Freemasons

HS951-1179--Odd Fellows

HS1201-1350--Knights of Pythias

HS1355--Other societies

HS1501-2460.7--Other societies.  By classes

HS1501-1510--Benevolent and "friendly" societies and mutual assessment fraternities

HS1525-1560--Religious societies

HS1601-2265--Race societies

HS2275--Occupation societies

HS2301-2460.7--Political and "patriotic" societies

HS2501-3371--Clubs.  Clubs and societies for special classes

Including boys' societies, Boy scouts, girls' societies

HT51-1595--Communities.  Classes.  Races

HT51-65--Human settlements.  Communities

HT101-395--Urban groups.  The city.  Urban sociology

HT161-165--Garden cities.  "The city beautiful"

HT165.5-169.9--City planning

HT170-178--Urban renewal.  Urban redevelopment

HT201-221--City population

Including children in cities, immigration

HT231--Effect of city life

HT251-265--Mental and moral life

HT281--Recreation.  Amusements

HT321-325--The city as an economic factor.  City promotion

HT330-334--Metropolitan areas

HT351-352--Suburban cities and towns

HT361-384--Urbanization.  City and country

HT388--Regional economics.  Space in economics

HT390-395--Regional planning

HT401-485--Rural groups.  Rural sociology

HT601-1445--Classes

HT621-635--Origin of social classes

HT641-657--Classes arising from birth

Including royalty, nobility, commons

HT675-690--Classes arising from occupation

HT713-725--Caste system

HT731--Freedmen

HT751-815--Serfdom

HT851-1445--Slavery

HT1501-1595--Races

Including race as a social group and race relations in general

HV1-9960--Social pathology.  Social and public welfare.  Criminology

HV40-69--Social service.  Social work.  Charity organization and practice

Including social case work, private and public relief, institutional care, rural social work, work relief

HV85-525--By region or country

HV530--The church and charity

HV541--Women and charity

HV544--Charity fairs, bazaars, etc.

HV544.5--International social work

HV547--Self-help groups

HV551.2-639--Emergency management

HV553-639--Relief in case of disasters

HV560-583--Red Cross.  Red Crescent

HV599-639--Special types of disasters

HV640-645--Refugee problems

HV650-670--Life saving

HV675-677--Accidents.  Prevention of accidents

HV680-696--Free professional services

Including medical charities

HV697-4959--Protection, assistance and relief

HV697-3024--Special classes

HV697-700.7--Families.  Mothers.  Widow's ­pensions

HV701-1420.5--Children

HV835-847--Foundlings

HV873-887--Destitute, neglected, and abandoned children.  Street children

HV888-907--Children with disabilities

HV931-941--Fresh-air funds

HV959-1420.5--Orphanages.  Orphans

HV1421-1441--Young adults.  Youth.  Teenagers

HV1442-1448--Women

HV1449--Gay men.  Lesbians

HV1450-1494--Aged

HV1551-3024--People with disabilities

Including blind, deaf, ­people with physical and mental disabilities

HV3025-3174--Special classes.  By occupation

HV3025-3163--Mariners

HV3165-3173--Shop women, clerks, etc.

HV3174--Other.  By occupation

HV3176-3199--Special classes.  By race or ethnic group

HV4005-4013--Immigrants

HV4023-4470.7--Poor in cities.  Slums

HV4480-4630--Mendicancy.  Vagabondism.  Tramps.  Homelessness

HV4701-4890.9--Protection of animals.  Animal rights.  Animal welfare

HV4905-4959--Animal experimentation.  Anti-vivisection

HV4961-4995--Degeneration

HV5001-5720.5--Alcoholism.  Intemperance.  Temperance reform

HV5725-5770--Tobacco habit

HV5800-5840--Drug habits.  Drug abuse

HV6001-7220.5--Criminology

HV6035-6197--Criminal anthropology

Including criminal types, criminal psychology, prison psychology, causes of crime

HV6201-6249--Criminal classes

HV6250-6250.4--Victims of crimes.  Victimology

HV6251-6773.55--Crimes and offenses

HV6774-7220.5--Crimes and criminal classes

HV7231-9960--Criminal justice administration

HV7428--Social work with delinquents and criminals

HV7431--Prevention of crime, methods, etc.

HV7435-7439--Gun control

HV7551-8280.7--Police.  Detectives.  Constabulary

HV7935-8025--Administration and organization

HV8031-8080--Police duty.  Methods of protection

HV8035-8069--Special classes of crimes, offenses and criminals

HV8073-8079.35--Investigation of crimes.  Examination and identification of prisoners

HV8079.2-8079.35--Police social work

HV8079.5-8079.55--Traffic control.  Traffic accident investigation

HV8081-8099--Private detectives.  Detective bureaus

HV8130-8280.7--By region or country

HV8290-8291--Private security services

HV8301-9920.7--Penology.  Prisons.  Corrections

HV9051-9230.7--The juvenile offender.  Juvenile delinquency.  Reform schools, etc.

HV9261-9430.7--Reformation and reclamation of adult prisoners

HV9441-9920.7--By region or country

HV9950-9960--By region or country

HX1-970.7--Socialism.  Communism.  Anarchism

HX519-550--Communism/socialism in relation to special topics

HX626-696--Communism: Utopian socialism, collective settlements

HX806-811--Utopias.  The ideal state

HX821-970.9--Anarchism

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