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Library of Congress Classification System

Main Classes Subclasses
A - General Works AE - Encyclopedias
AI - Indexes
AN - Newspapers
AP - Periodicals
B - Philosophy, Psychology B-BD - Philosophy
BF - Psychology
BH - Esthetics
BJ - Ethics
BL-BX - Religions, Mythology
C - History (Auxiliary sciences: archaeology, genealogy, etc.) (various)
D - History (except America) DA - Great Britain
DC - France
DD - Germany
DK - Russia
DS - Asia
DT - Africa
E-F - America and U. S. F1-F970 - United States
F1201-F3899 - Latin America
G - Geography, Anthropology G-GF - Geography, Travel, Atlases
GN - Anthropology, Ethnography
GR - Folklore
GV - Sports
H - Social Sciences HA-HJ - Economics
HM-HQ - Sociology
HX - Communism, Socialism, Anarchism
J - Political Science  
K - Law  
L - Education  
M - Music ML - Literature of Music
MT - Musical Instruction
N - Fine Arts NA - Architecture
NB - Sculpture & Related Arts
NC - Graphic Arts
ND - Painting
NK - Applied Arts
NX - The arts in general
P - Language and Literature PA - Classical Philology
PB-PH - Modern European Languages
PJ-PL - Oriental Languages
PQ - Romance Literatures
PR - English Literature
PS - American Literature
PT - German Literature
Q - Science QA - Mathematics
QB - Astronomy
QC - Physics
QD - Chemistry
QE - Geology
QH - Natural History
QK - Botany
QL - Zoology
QM - Human Anatomy
QP - Physiology
QR - Bacteriology
R - Medicine (various)
S - Agriculture (various)
U - Military Science  
V - Naval Science  
T - Technology & Engineering (various)
Z - Bibliography & Library Science  

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