Geography

Search for Books and Ebooks

The drop down menu above gives you several options for searching:

Keyword: This will search for the term in all areas of the record. Keep your topic to its key concepts for this search.

Author: Use if you know the author's name. You can enter just the last name of the author, or if you know their full name enter is as last name, first name (Example: Dickens, Charles).

Title: Enter either the full title or just a few keywords from the title.  

Subject: This is helpful if you are looking for numerous books on a topic. To the right are some suggestions of subject headings that may be useful in your research.  

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Finding Geography Books on the Shelf

Ellender Memorial Library uses the Library of Congress classification system. The lists below include call numbers where you can BROWSE the shelves to find something that interests you. Books from similar subject areas can be found together.

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​Library of Congress

G        Geography, general; Atlases; Maps

GA      Mathematical geography; Cartography

GB      Physical geography

GC      Oceanography

GE      Environmental science

GF      Human ecology; Anthrogeography

GH      Anthropology

Indicative of the interdisciplinary nature of geography, materials also may be found in these classification areas:

D History: General (for geographical history by region or country)

E History: America (for U.S. geographical history)

F History: America (for geographical history by region or country)

GE Environmental sciences

HD Land use

HF Economic geography (especially, globalization)

HE Transportation geography

HT City planning. Regional planning. Metropolitan areas.

JC Political geography

JV Emigration and immigration. International migration

QC Climatology

UA Military geography

Subject Headings

Relevant subjects for books may include, but are not limited to:

• atlases
• biogeography
• cartography
• earth sciences
• geographic information systems
• geography
• geomorphology
• historical geography
• human geography
• landscapes
• maps
• medical geography
• physical geography
• population geography