If you want to find a book in Fogler Library, you can search for that book by title in the LibrarySearch catalog. First, click on the "Books" option below the search bar to make sure that your search results are limited to books only. Then type the book's title into the search bar and click on the magnifying glass button to the right of the search bar.
You should see a list of books as a result of your search. You might have to add quotation marks around the title in the search bar or add the author's name if you're seeing a lot of books that aren't the one you're looking for.
Example: I searched for the title "The Bluest Eye," which is a book by Toni Morrison.
Once you've found the book by the author you're looking for, click on the title of the book. If the heading above the book title says "Multiple versions," that means you'll have to choose a specific edition to look at, and click on the title once more.
Then look at the list of locations. If "UMaine" is listed as a location for a copy of the book, that's the version that sits on a shelf somewhere in Fogler.
Example: The first record for The Bluest Eye is labeled "Multiple versions," so I click on the title...
...and then I click on the first title of the three versions of the book that are listed.
Under the location (in this case, "UMaine"), there are three pieces of information. The first is availability, the second is where in the library the book is, and the third is the call number. The call number tells you exactly which shelf the book is on, and where on the shelf it is.
A call number usually starts with one or two letters. Those letters and the first few numbers after tell you what subject the book is about, but you'll need the whole sequence of letters and numbers to know exactly where the book is on the shelf. (For more information about how books are organized, you can take a look at the Library of Congress classification outline, which is the system Fogler Library uses.)
Example: The call number for The Bluest Eye is PS3563.O8749 B55 2000, which means it's shelved with other works of American literature written between 1961 and 2000.
You can consult the Fogler Library maps to determine where in the stacks a book is located. The stacks, which is another name for the shelves where most of Fogler's books sit, are on the second and third floors.
Example: The call number for The Bluest Eye starts with PS3563. Books with call numbers starting with PS are on the second floor, in the middle section of the stacks.
Each shelf in the stacks has a label describing the range of call numbers that sit on that shelf. Find the shelf with the range that includes the beginning of your call number, and that is where your book will be. Then look at the call numbers of the books on the shelf until you find the call number for your book! Everything is shelved in sequence--PS1 comes before PS2, PS3563.O comes before PS3563.P, and so on.
Example: The call number for The Bluest Eye is PS3563.O8749 B55 2000. Books starting with PS3563 are split between two sides of one shelf, but this book sits on the shelf with the range PS3563 (which begins at PS3563.A664) to PS3566.
The Bluest Eye is shelved between books with the call numbers PS3563.O8749 B46 2001 and PS3563.O8749 G63 2015.
