Geography is a vast discipline, therefore, searching for books can return a large number of resources once you click on a result. A tip for narrowing your results is to do a search of the specific topic that you are focusing on. For example, if you are interested in spaces of incarceration, you might try searching "carceral geographies." Directly below are two books that were listed after selecting "keywords anywhere" and using the search term "carceral geographies" to locate materials in the Five College Library Catalog.
Carceral Geography: Spaces and Practices of Incarceration by
LITS Tip: looking at the subject option on the results page will offer more keywords to search that are related to your topic. You can also click on the keyword hyperlinks that directs you to a general subject view page that may also have helpful search links.
Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago by What is a call number?
Call numbers are the group of numbers usually located on the spine of a book that serve as the "address" of the book. Each book in our library has a distinctive call number. Mount Holyoke uses the Library of Congress Classification system, which is different from the Dewey Decimal Classification that is used in public and K-12 libraries.
Example of call number order:
N66 .B634 1999
NA 9 .A34 2005
NA 20 .G4 2001
NA 100.G411.2001
NA 100 .G47 2008
How to read call number: N66 .B634 1999
To browse the stacks for geography books, go to the Library shelves with these Library of Congress classifications:
To find books on a particular topic, by a specific author or title, search the Library Catalog.
Levels 1-7 Williston
Level 1 - D
Level 2 - E-HD
Level 2 ½ - X-Folio (extra large)
Level 3 - HE-JZ
Level 4 - JK-NX, Reference
Level 5 - P-PQ3999
Level 6 - PQ 4000- PS 3499
Level 7 - PS 2500- PT
Level 1 - Cutter
Level 2- A-C
Level 4 - Information Commons, MEWS
Level 6 - Q - S
Level 7- PZ, T-Z
Music (M)
World Regions in Global Context by
LITS Tip: This is the course textbook for the class, which can be reserved for three hours at the circulation desk on the second floor of the library.
Key Concepts in Geography by 
The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge by 
Introducing Human Geographies, Third Edition by 
The People, Place, and Space Reader by
LITS Tip: Jen Jack Gieseking, an urban cultural geographer, feminist and queer theorist, and environmental psychologist who co-edited this book, is a MHC alum.
Key Thinkers on Space and Place by 