Vol. 3, No. 5
| Open House | ... page 1 |
| Fiction | ... page 2 |
| Mary Manley | ... page 3 |
| Student Art | ... page 4 |
| Season's Readings | ... page 5 |
| Suggestion Box | ... page 6 |
| Out and About | ... page 7 |
| Library Hours | ... page 7 |
| Visual Tour | ... page 8 |
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Focus On . . . . .
Fiction
Looking for some leisure reading?
If you want to find current fiction quickly, go to the Best Seller shelves or the paperback shelves in the reading lounge area. We purchase selected best sellers and a variety of paperbacks for recreational reading.
You’ve probably noticed that Parkland Library doesn’t arrange fiction in the same way your public library does. Works of fiction are cataloged and arranged by the Library of Congress (LC) classification system. Under LC, fictional works are grouped by nationality and shelved with other non-fiction, literature-related books. English (British) fiction is in the PR call number range, and American fiction is in the PS range. Both are on the 3rd floor of our Library.
Within the PR and PS ranges, works by individual authors are grouped by time period (19th century, 20th century) and then arranged by the author’s last name. For example, PS 3550–3576 includes books by American writers who became well-known after 1961, starting with those whose last name begins with A and continuing through the Zs.
Here’s a quick rundown of LC arrangement for literature by nationality or type:
| American | PS | |
| Asian, African | PJ-PM | |
| British | PR | |
| Children's | PZ | |
| Classical | PA | |
| French, Italian, Spanish | PQ | |
| General | PN | |
| Germanic | PT | |
| Slavic | PG |
A bit confusing til you
get used to it, right? That’s why we recommend that you
| Search the catalog for best results. |
The Library catalog lists all books (as well as videos, audiobooks, CDs, DVDs, etc.) that we own. Visit the Library webpage (http://www.parkland.edu/library) then mouse over Library Catalogs and click on "Parkland Library Catalog" then choose "Search." For best results, change the Contain box to "Begin with" and type in the author’s last name, then the first name:
You could also search for words from the title:
Of course, you can always ask a librarian at the Information Desk to help you find a book! We can also help you search the Lincoln Trail online catalog (LINC), which lists books at area public libraries, if we don’t own the book you want.
Enjoy the pleasures of
reading "just for fun."