LibGuide Communication and Information Studies: Find literature in the Central Library

In the basement of the Central Library (in De Verdieping), the books of the Humanties collections are in Open Stacks. These books are placed according to the Library of Congress Classification (LCC).

You can pick up requested works from the pick-up shelves, to the left of the Service Desk (when you select pick-up location Central Library). Publications which are requested before 4 p.m. will be available the same day. You receive an e-mail when the publication you requested can be picked up.

You can borrow books using the book lending machine, and return them at the book return machine. Please note: journals and newspapers can’t be borrowed.

In the Reading Room are reference works in various fields of study. You can find these reference works in RUQuest; they have a place code that starts with Lz. Reference works can’t be borrowed.

The collection in the Reading Room is classified according to the Nederlandse Basisclassificatie (Dutch Basic Classification). There is a sign on one of the bookcases opposite the entrance to the Reading Room with a map and the main classes. Or check the main classes on Wikipedia (in Dutch).

All special books and journals up to 1900 can be read in the Special Collections Reading Room. These materials are in the closed stacks, and can be requested via RUQuest. If you need help requesting these publications, please go to the desk of the Special Collections Reading Room.

You’ll find this room in the left corner of the Reading Room, in the Central Library.

Opening hours:
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A : General works
B : Philosophy (General)
BC-BD : Logic. Speculative philosophy
BF : Psychology
BH-BJ : Aesthetics. Ethics
BL : Religions. Mythology. Rationalism
BM-BQ : Judaism. Islam. Bahai Faith. Theosophy. Buddhism
BR : Christianity
BS : The Bible
BT-BV : Doctrinal and practical theology
BX : Christian Denominations
C : Auxiliary Sciences of History
D-DAW : World history and history of Europe (Part one)
DB-DG : History of Europe (Part two)
DH-DX : History of Europe (Part three), Asia, Africa, Oceania and the Romanies
E-F : History of the Americas
G : Geography. Anthropology. Recreation
H : Social Sciences
J : Political Sciences
K : Law
L : Education
M : Music
N : Fine Arts
P-PM : Philology. Linguistics
PN : Literature (General)
PQ : French literature
PQ : Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Literature
PR : English Literature
PS : American Literature
PT : Dutch, Flemish, Afrikaans, and Scandinavian Literature. Fiction. Juvenile belles lettres.
PT : German literature
Q : General Sciences
R-S-T : Medicine. Agriculture. Technology
U-V-Z : Military Science. Naval Science. Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources

Please note: the book collection in the Open Stacks is the collection of the Humanities, and partly Management sciences and Social sciences. Although the LCC classification covers all subject areas, for some subject areas the majority of the books is in a different library location, such as Science and Law.