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Detailed record

  • The search results list displays the records in an abbreviated form.
  • To view any of these records in more detail, click on their respective title.

It’s possible to access the following in the detailed record:

  • Bibliographic information, namely:
    • Author(s),
    • The publisher,
    • Year of publication,
    • The subject of the publication,
    • etc.
  • Exporting bibliographic records to a bibliographic reference manager;
  • Adding and sending records by email;
  • Access to the complete record of the publication to consult information about:
    • The location of the publication;
    • Reference number (the label on the spine of the copy);
    • The status of the publication (available, borrowed, or reserved);
    • Return date.

 

 

Reference - localisation

 

A reference number is an alphanumeric code which is printed on a label that is affixed to the spine of
documents and which enable one to locate the book on the book shelf. It reflects the topic of the work and
assists locate the documents on the Library shelves.

The majority of the documents in the ISEG Library catalogue have a reference number composed of three
elements.

 

For example, the reference number HF5635.S76 2020:

 

 

1

Library classification of the Congress

HF5635

2

Author

S76

3

Date of publication

2020

 

All the publications on display in open-access are classified according to the Library of the United States
Congress Classification Plan.

 

This plan is alphanumerical from A to Z in the specific case of the ISEG Library, which is the principal collection in the country in the areas of Economics, Finance, Management, and Auxiliary Sciences, nearly all of which are in the H Class – Social Sciences.

 

Synthesis of the classification of this class (Class H):

H1-H99

Social Sciences (General)

Floor 2

HA1-HA4737

Statistical Sciences (General)

Floor 2

HB1–HB3840

Economic – Economic Theory

Floor 2

HC10-HC1085

Economic History and Conditions (general)

Floor 2

HD28- HD9999

Economic History and Conditions-Sectors

Floor 2

HE1-HE9900

Transport and Communications

Floor 2

HF1- HF6182

Commerce

Floor 2

HG1- HG9999

Finance

Floor 2

HJ9- HJ9995

Public Finances

Floor 3

HM1- HM299

Sociology

Floor 3

HN1-HN991

Social History, Social Conditions

Floor 3

HQ1-HQ2044

Family, Marriage, Women

Floor 3

HS1-HS3369

Associations, Societies

Floor 3

HT51-HT1595

Communities, Social Classes, Races

Floor 3

HV1- HV9960

Social Assistance, Social Pathology

Floor 3

HX1-HX970.7

Socialism, Communism, Anarchism

Floor 3

 

 

How to look for a book on the shelf

 

Procedures:

  1. Firstly, locate the floor which corresponds to the letters HF (Floor2);
  2. Identify the book shelf, and then find the work;
  3. At the top of each book shelf there is a plaque which identifies the range of reference numbers for this
    book shelf;

  4. Identify the book shelf, and then just follow the numbering of the subject, the author, and the date.
    The order is alphanumeric.

 

 

Narrowing down results

 

When a large amount of entries are returned, the search can be narrowed down by using the options that
feature on the left-hand side of the screen, namely:

  • Availability;

  • Authors;

  • Type of document;

  • Libraries;

  • Localisations;

  • Locations;

  • Collection;

  • Subject.