In-house card catalogues
Materials not in our online catalogue can be found using our remaining card catalogues:
Library card catalogues
Map card catalogue
Archive and picture catalogues
Searching
Author catalogues are organised alphabetically.
Corporate author catalogue entries are created when there is no obvious individual author; entries could be the name of a project, expedition or organisation or occasionally a country name.
Subject/map catalogues are geographical by continent, then country.
Subject catalogue divides each country into subfields, for example ‘geology’.
Maps are subdivided:
Requesting
On registration, you will be provided with a general request form.
The fields required are:
Please complete all requested fields.
Subject catalogue cards do not include the class number. You must check the main author/periodical title catalogue entries for the class number.
For map class numbers, please state the country, then the map type and number, for example 'Map type G, number U.S.A. G.45'.