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Get It from Somewhere Else - Part 1

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Get It Somewhere Else - Part 2

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ARKLink is a group of college and university libraries in Arkansas who share library resources with students of member libraries. Click above for more information and participating libraries. 

Cards are available to Tech students, faculty, and staff whose library accounts are in good standing. They are valid for one semester. Go to Circulation Desk with your ID to pick one up OR use the button below and a card will be issued and mailed OR email library@atu.edu.

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Books in the Library

The books in the library are shelved by Dewey Decimal Classification (like what is used in most school and public libraries).  Sometimes you can find books you did not know about by browsing the shelves.  The books in the biological sciences are shelved under the following numbers:

550 Earth sciences and geology

  • 550 Earth sciences
  • 551 Geology, hydrology, meteorology
  • 552 Petrology
  • 553 Economic geology
  • 554 Earth sciences of Europe
  • 555 Earth sciences of Asia
  • 556 Earth sciences of Africa
  • 557 Earth sciences of North America
  • 558 Earth sciences of South America
  • 559 Earth sciences of Australasia, Pacific Ocean islands, Atlantic Ocean islands, Arctic islands, Antarctica, extraterrestrial worlds

560 Fossils and prehistoric life

  • 560 Paleontology
  • 561 Paleobotany, fossil microorganisms
  • 562 Fossil invertebrates
  • 563 Miscellaneous fossil marine and seashore invertebrates
  • 564 Fossil Mollusca and Molluscoidea
  • 565 Fossil Arthropoda
  • 566 Fossil Chordata
  • 567 Fossil cold-blooded vertebrates
  • 568 Fossil Aves (birds)
  • 569 Fossil Mammalia

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