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Yonkers High School IB: Finding Materials: Sarah Lawrence College Library

Use this to start your Extended Essay Work

Sarah Lawrence College Library

The librarians at Sarah Lawrence College are committed to helping you with your IB research! We love working with you, so please feel free to reach out to us.

To schedule a research consultation: https://calendly.com/slcreference/research

Email: reference@sarahlawrence.edu

You are welcome to come to the library to work. You can find the hours here: https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/library

While you are not able to check out books from our library, you can read them while you are here, and you can request the titles through YPL. While you are on campus, you are able to access our databases if you are on our WiFi.

Location of Subject Areas in the Library

Library of Congress Subject Areas

Location Subject Area
Upper Level A - General Works 
  B - Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
C - Auxiliary History of Science
D - World History and History of Europe
E - History of the Americas
F - History of the Americas
G - Geology, Anthropology, Recreation
H - Social Sciences
J - Political Science
K - Law
L - Education
Main Level M - Music and Books on Music
N - Fine Arts
P-PQ - Language and Literature
Lower Level PR-PZ - Language and Literature
Q - Science
R - Medicine
S - Agriculture 
T - Technology
U - Military Science
V - Naval Science
Z - Bibliography, Library Science, Information Science

 

LC Subject Areas

Most academic libraries, including Sarah Lawrence, have books organized in a system called Library of Congress. This means books are arranged by subject, not just fiction/non-fiction and author. See below for details on what that means and where the books can be found at Sarah Lawrence.

How to Read a Call Number

What is a Call Number?

The call number is the "address" for a book. Use it to locate books (and other items) at the Library. 

  1. Read the first line in alphabetical order. For example, PR would come before PS. 
  2. Read the second line as a whole number and in numerical order. For example, 1541 would come before 1631. 
  3. The third line is a combination of letters and numbers. Read the letters alphabetically and the numbers as a decimal. For example, A3 would come after A133. 
  4. In many cases the last line will be the year the book was published.

Sarah Lawrence College Library

To access JSTOR use the username: ibstudent and password: yonkers


Access to the databases listed below is available only while at the SLC library.

Research Databases

Use your YPL card to log in to the following electronic resources: