Computing Resources: Finding Books

The Library Catalog, WorldCat, and Mockingbird are tools for finding books, journal titles, websites, DVDs and other material available from Abington Library, Arkansas and worldwide. Because the records in the Library Catalog and WorldCat are often brief they work best for searches by Author, Title and important subjects or keywords. We use Library of Congress (LC) Classification to arrange books on our shelves. LC subclass QA is for Mathematics which contains computers, computer science and computer software.TK is for Electronics and Computer Hardware. You may find some software under the topic that it covers, Microsoft Office might be under HF for Business.

Books that have call numbers should be print books that are in the Arkansas State University-Beebe Libraries. Most will be at Abington Library and will be circulating books on the second floor, or reference books on the first floor (reference books will have REF in front of the call number). There may be some that say ALNB, those will be on the new book shelves on the first floor. Electronic books will have no call number. For more information about LC Classification go to https://libguides.asub.edu/LOC_Class.

Use the following tools when the Arkansas State University-Beebe libraries don't own the books you need, or if you just want to see what other materials might be available on your topic at other libraries:

OCLC WorldCat or OCLC WorldCat Discovery - Search results will show which libraries have a particular item.

Interlibrary Loan Form - Fill out this form and email it to circ@asub.edu. Make sure to provide any important information, so we can find the item at another library.

Mockingbird, the Arkansas Statewide Virtual Union Catalog provides a single point of access to participating Arkansas library catalogs. Users can search this combined catalog and request interlibrary loans from participating institutions. You can access it at ASU-Beebe Mockingbird Catalog.