Subject Guide - Languages
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Relevant Class Numbers
Class numbers are used to shelve library items in numerical order. Each number represents a subject. All the books on the same subject should be found together. Normally we will have added the first three letters of the surname of author to the class number, to make them easier to find.
Just follow the signage until you reach the number you require, and then follow the numbers on the spines of the books until you find the book you want.
| Topic - Languages, Linguistics and Literature | Class Numbers |
| Languages | 400 |
| Language Usage | 418 |
| Language Acquisition | 401.93 |
| Literature | 800-899 |
| Translation | 418.02 |
| Criticism | 809 |
| French Language | 440 |
| French Literature | 840 |
| German Language | 430 |
| German Literature | 830 |
| Italian Language | 470 |
| Italian Literature | 870 |
| Spanish Language | 460 |
| Spanish Literature | 860 |
| Applied Linguistics | 418 |
| English as a Foreign Language | 428.24 |
| Irish Language | 491.62 |
| Irish Language Literature | 891.62 |
| Irish literature in English | 820 or Fiction |
| Dictionaries — general | 413 |
| English Dictionaries | 423 |
| French Dictionaries | 443 |
| German dictionaries | 433 |
| Italian dictionaries | 453 |
| Spanish Dictionaries | 463 |
| Irish Dictionaries | 491.623 |
| English Grammar | 428 |
| Speech analysis | 621.3192 |
Reference Materials
This material is located in the reference section of the library, near the library desk.
This material cannot be removed from the library.
| Title | Class Number |
| OAG Gazetteer | Reference 338.4971 |
| Oxford Encyclopedic English dictionary | Ref 423 |
| Oxford Duden German dictionary | Ref 433 |
| Oxford Hachette French Dictionary | Ref 443.21 |
| Oxford English-Italian/Italian-English Dictionary | Ref 453 |
| Collins Spanish dictionary | Ref 463.21 |
| Foclóir Gaeilge/Béarla | Ref 491.62 |
| Lettres Européennes | Ref 800 |
| Oxford companion to English literature | Ref 809.03 |
| Deutsche Literature geschichte | Ref 830 |
| Blackwell companion to modern Irish culture | Ref 941.5 |
| Chronology of Irish history since 1500 | Ref 941.50202 |
| Dictionary of contemporary Germany | Ref 943.0879 |
| Encyclopedia of contemporary French culture | Ref 944.0803 HUG |
