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Geography Resources: Books

the Library Catalog

MERLIN CATALOG is the MU's catalog of books, journals, dissertations, maps, etc.

Do a Keyword, Author or a Subject Search to search for information.

Keyword Search: Type keywords that describe your topic into the search box.
EXAMPLE: "rural poverty" and migration

Subject Search: Use the Subject Search to search for names, events, concepts, etc.
EXAMPLE: Geographic Information Systems

Google Books

Why use Google Books?

Google Books searches the full-text of books.  It is great for narrow topics because it lets you search within the text of books--you can see the table of contents, index or a portion of the contents of the book.  You can then locate the book in a nearby library.

Google Book Search

MOBIUS & Other Catalogs

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Call Numbers

The call number ranges below are mostly on the 3rd Floor East of Ellis Library. Reference books (dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.) are on the 1st Floor.

G1-922 Geography (general)
G65-69   Geographers
G80-99   History of Geography
G100.5-108.5   Toponomy, including gazetteers
G140   Great cities of the world
G 141   Historical Geography
G154.9-550   Travel, discoveries, voyages, etc
G575-890   Arctic and Antarctic Regions
G905-910   Tropics
G912-922   Northern and Southern Hemispheres
G1000-3122 Atlases 
G1000-1000.5   Atlases of moon, planets, etc
G1001-1046   World and Earth Atlases
G1100-1779
  Western Hemisphere
G1780-2700
   Eastern Hemisphere
G2800-3064
   Oceans
G3100-3102   Antarctica
G3180-9980 Maps
G3200-3202   World, Earth
G3210-3272   Hemispheres, Tropics, Polar regions, etc
G3300-5184   North America
G5200-5667   South America
G5670-8904    Eastern Hemisphere, Eurasia, Africa, etc.
G8950-9084
  Australasia
G9095-9794   Oceans
G9800-9804
  Antarctica
G9900-9980   Unlocalized Maps