Nonfiction works are classified by subject according to the Dewey Decimal Classification. Stopwords Fields Highlighted fields are limit fields. The AB field contains a brief descriptive and critical annotation for the entry. You can search any word or phrase in the AB field. The AN field contains a unique 12-character code that identifies the document.
Abbreviations used are il for illustrator, comp for compiler, and ed for editor.
Author's names can be searched with or without hyphens. When searching without hyphens, type last name followed by first name or first name followed by last name. The order of the words does not matter. When searching an author's name with hyphens, type the last name first and hyphenate all names and initials. Use Browse to search for the author by last name in this Author Name index.