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Civil and Environmental Engineering: Home

This guide will help you find and use Library resources for your assignments, dissertations, theses and other research. Please contact me if you would like further help or information.

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Useful shelf numbers

Library books are arranged by the Dewey Decimal classification scheme whereby each subject is represented by a number.

You wil find books on the same subject will have the same number. The shelfmark is preceded by the letter  D  and will be followed by 3 letters, which are usually the first 3 letters of the author's name. 

Here are some useful shelfmarks.

D 551 Geology and hydrology

D 624.1 Structural engineering and underground construction

D 625 Engineering of roads and railroads

D 628 Environmental engineering

D 690 Construction of buildings

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