Here at the Heaton Family Learning Commons, we have our fiction and non-fiction split by floors: fiction is on the upper level and nonfiction is on the lower level.
Other collections in the Heaton
Say you have to write a paper on ethics and the call number for the book titled Problems in Ethics is 170 M965p. If you are not familiar with DDC, this number looks confusing. However, it is following a system that is classified by numbers and letters.The 170 represents the book's subject. 170 falls within the 100s area, putting it in the Philosophy and Psychology category. The M965p portion of the call number refers to the author and book title, giving the book a unique identifier.
See below for examples of Dewey call number subject areas:
Please see the "Finding a Book" section above for usage of the online public access catalog to find your books' call numbers.
Not everything is digitized! But we do have many ebooks that can be found using the following databases.
You can open and read a pdf version of an ebook online. Generally, that is sufficient for most research needs. If you plan to read an entire book, or if you want to read it offline, you will need to download the book. To be able to download ebooks, there are some initial steps you will need to take:
Request a Book
through Interlibrary Loan
If the BC3 Library does not have a book in its collection, you may request it through interlibrary loan. It takes about a week to obtain a print book; we will notify you via email when it is available for pick-up.
The BC3 Library maintains a small collection of textbooks. In general, we do not purchase textbooks, but try to obtain as many as we can through donations from the publisher, BC3 Academic Divisions, and BC3 faculty. These are shelved behind the upper level circulation desk. Here is a list of the current textbooks available at the library.
There are numerous sources for finding books beyond the BC3 Library’s Catalog and databases. These include other library catalogs, Google books, vendor databases, and open access books. Most of these resources provide a means to identify books that you want, but usually the books will not be freely available online. However, you can use the BC3 Library’s Interlibrary Loan Service to request books and pick them up at one of the BC3 Colleg’s locations in about a week’s time. Here are links to some of these sources: