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Locating Items in the MIT Libraries

Books are arranged by call number in all of the MIT Libraries. How to use the Library of Congress Call Numbers.

Use our BookPage retrieval service to have 4-week loan items ready for pick-up in 1 business day if on the premises, within 2 business days if from another campus library.

Journals will either be shelved by call number (Humanities, Science) or alphabetically by title (Barker Engineering, Dewey, Rotch, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Lewis Music, and Lindgren).

PLEASE NOTE: Journal call numbers are different from book call numbers: after the initial letter(s) there are no numbers. An example of a journal call number: T.S34

Here are some helpful links for locating materials in the MIT Libraries:

Map of the MIT Libraries

Aeronautics and Astronautics

Barker: Engineering

Books:
A-QA Located on the 8th floor
QB-ZVM999 Located on the 7th floor

Journals:
Current Issue: 5th floor, arranged alphabetically by title
Earlier Issues: 6th floor, arranged alphabetically by title

Dewey: Management & Social Sciences

• Location of materials in Dewey Library

Humanities

• Guide to the stacks - Humanities Library
• Floor plan of the Hayden basement (pdf)

Lewis Music

• Lewis Music Library Virtual Tour
• Lewis Music Library Guide to Call Numbers

Library Storage Annex: remote storage facility

Lindgren: Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences

• Lindgren Library floor plan

Rotch: Architecture & Planning

• Stacks guide - Rotch Library

Rotch Visual Collections

Science

• Floor plan of the Science Library (pdf)
• Floor plan of the Hayden basement (pdf)