The books are organised by Library of Congress call numbers on the spines of the books to keep all the items on the same subject in the same place. Social Work and social policy books are generally located on the 1st floor of Koerner Library.
HM 1-1281 Sociology
(HM 1-299) These are obsolete numbers no longer used by the Library of Congress
HM 435-477 History of sociology. History of sociological theory
HM 481-554 Theory. Method. Relations to other subjects
HM 621-656 Culture
HM 661-696 Social control
HM 701 Social systems
HM 706 Social structure
HM 711-806 Groups and organizations
HM 811-821 Deviant behavior. Social deviance
HM 826 Social institutions
HM 831-901 Social change
HM 1001-1281 Social psychology
HN 1-995 Social History and (Conditions. Social Problems. Social Reform.
HV 1-9960 Social Pathology. Social and Public Welfare. Criminology.
Grey Literature is "literature produced on all levels of government, academics, business, and organization in electronic and print formats not controlled by commercial publishing i.e. where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body"Greynet.
Examples of grey literature include:
Since Grey Literature isn't usually found in traditional indexes you need to search for it in a variety of resources. Some places to start:
Google is a great tool for finding grey literature as long as you use a few of the advanced search operators. These opperators give you more control over what results Google returns. For example, by using the site: operator you can restrict your search to just Government of Canada sites (site:.gc.ca) or just Colleges and Universities in the United States (site:.edu). Using thefiletype: opperator you can restrict your searches to just PDF files (filetype:pdf) or DOC files (filetype:doc). The intitle:opperator only looks for your search terms in the title of the document.
Operator | Description | Example |
“Search a phrase” | Forced the specfic word order | "This phrase only please" |
"Word" | Quotation marks around a word turns off synonyms & spell checking | |
site: | searches a particular website (ubc.ca) or domain (.ca) | site:gc.ca |
filetype: | Searches for a particular filetype | filetype:pdf |
intitle: | Searches only in the title | intitle:"climate change" |
For an excellent resource on searching with Google see the Google Advanced Power Searching page.