Use the Library Catalog to search for electronic books by subject, keyword, author, or title.
Ever wonder how the books are shelved?
In this library we use The Library of Congress Classification System to organize books on the shelves. The LC SYSTEM organizes material in libraries according to twenty-one branches of knowledge called classes. The system uses letters to represent the twenty-one broad branches of knowledge. The letters I, O, W, X AND Y are not used.
The twenty-one classes are:
A – GENERAL WORKS
B – PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, RELIGION
C – AUXILIARY SCIENCES OF HISTORY
D – HISTORY: GENERAL & OUTSIDE THE AMERICAS
E – HISTORY: UNITED STATES
F – HISTORY: UNITED STATES LOCAL & AMERICAS
G – GEOGRAPHY, ANTHROPOLOGY, RECREATION
H – SOCIAL SCIENCE
J – POLITICAL SCIENCE
K – LAW
L – EDUCATION
M – MUSIC & BOOKS ON MUSIC
N – FINE ARTS
P – LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
Q – SCIENCE
R – MEDICINE
S – AGRICULTURE
T – TECHNOLOGY
U – MILITARY SCIENCE
V – NAVAL SCIENCE
Z – BIBLIOGRAPHY, LIBRARY SCIENCE & INFORMATION RESOURCES
These twenty-one broad subject areas are further divided into more specific subject areas by adding one or two additional letters as well as some numbers. See the other side of this guide for the general breakdown. For a more detailed breakdown of any subject, go to the Library of Congress web page.
Finding Books on Your Topic
Once you have chosen a topic and done your background research you will be ready to conduct more comprehensive research using books.
Use the Library Catalog to find books. Books can provide a broad overview of a topic or in-depth information. You can search for books by author, title, subject, or keyword.
The following terms are just a few examples to help you search for books on your topic:
To locate ebooks, refine search results by Availability and select Available Online.
Further refine the results by Resource Type and select Books.
Here are few E-books that may help with your paper:
African Americans and Criminal Justice by 
The Death Penalty: a Reference Handbook by 
Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence
The Penalty Is Death: U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Women's ExecutionsHere are some books available in the library that may help with your paper:
Cruel and Unusual: the American death penalty and the founders' Eighth Amendment by 
The Death Penalty: Documents Decoded by 
Don't Kill in our Names : Families of Murder Victims Speak Out Against the Death Penalty
Is the Death Penalty Fair?
Mental Disability and the Death Penalty: the shame of the states by 
