Skip to Main Content

Collection Development Guide: English: LC Call Number Range

This guide provides collection development information and resources to English department faculty and faculty representatives.

Library of Congress Call Number Areas

Subject Call Number Collecting Level
  Philology. Linguistics   P   2,3
  Classical literature, Greek literature, Roman literature   PA   2,3
  Modern languages   PB   2,3
  Romance   PC   2
  Germanic   PD   2
  English   PE

  2,3

  Asian Literature   PJ   2
  Literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania   PL   2
  Literature (General)   PN   2,3
  French literature   PQ   2
  English literature   PR   2,3
  American literature/Canadian literature   PS   2,3
  German literature   PT   2
  Juvenile belles lettres   PZ   2,3