For example, a book on the best American short stories would be S BEST . The library has a special area of current new fiction and non-fiction that has been designated as 4 day checkout. These are available in the Main Reading Room by the windows to the left when you enter the room. These books start at the fourth stack behind the Reference Desk. New Non-Fiction is shelved in the Main Reading Room by the windows to the left when you enter the room.
Some books are too large to fit on the regular shelves.
These are designated with a Q before the call number. Oversized non-fiction is available in the Main Reading Room beginning along the back and side walls and last stack across from the side wall. When using the stairs on the left, oversized Biography is upstairs in the first stack to your right, and oversized 800s are available in the last stack to your right. Biography Biography is assigned the Dewey Decimal number 92. Biographies are shelved in the Mezzanine upstairs beginning at the first stack to your right when you go up the stairs on the left.