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The Alvin Sherman Library maintains a collection of over 400,000 volumes of books, journals, dissertations, and audios. Click here for a list of new materials.
On the 1st Floor you will find the following items:
- Bestsellers
- Large Print books
- International Collection (books, videos, etc.)
- Children's and Young Adult Collections
- Popular magazines and newspapers (in several languages)
- DVDs, Blu-rays, and Videos
- Videos Games
- Audio Books (Books on Cassette or CD)
- LeapPads
- Software
- NSU Dissertations
Call Numbers
Items in the various collections of the Alvin Sherman Library are arranged on the shelf using different classification and call number systems.
Most items are shelved according to call numbers from the Library of Congress Classification System. This includes most of the circulating collection located on the third and fourth floors and the reference collection on the second floor.
The popular, children's, and young adult collections use the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Popular fiction is arranged in alphabetical order by author, while all periodicals are arranged in alphabetical order by title.
CDs and cassettes are catalogued by the ANSCR system (Alpha Numeric System for Classification of Recordings).
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