E/A/M Library Location Guide

Use this as a guide to help you locate materials in the E/A/M Library.
Please do not hesitate to ask a staff member for assistance.

Books (monographs) are arranged by call number in the Stacks.
Many books in the stacks are on reserve and have loan periods of two hours or 7 days.
All other materials in the stacks have the following loan periods for CUA patrons:
- Undergraduate students: four weeks
- Graduate students: one semester
- Faculty: one year

Most reserve materials are filed in the stacks under their call number. To find out what materials are on reserve for a particular class, check the WRLC Libraries Catalog reserve section or ask a staff member for a reserve list.
Most are two-hour loans; most may go out over night if you check them out one hour before the library closes and return them within one hour of the library opening the following day.
Many readings are available on electronic reserves: your professor will provide instructions to use this feature.
Professors' personal copies are located behind the circulation desk: please ask a staff member. These cannot be removed from the library.

Current Journals are arranged alphabetically by journal title and are located in the Reading Room. Architecture and Engineering journals are both located in the Reading Room but they are grouped separately from each other.
***Current Math Journals are located in the Math Reading Room in the Math Department in 207 McMahon Hall.***
Bound Journals are arranged alphabetically by title. Engineering, Architecture, and Math bound journals are interfiled with one another. Many journals have changed names over the years: check the Architecture Periodicals lists located by the computers or ask a staff member to find out what name each journal is shelved under.
To find Electronic Journals, search the Electronic Journal Title Finder on the Library website.

Items with the location Eng/Arch/Math Indexes/Abstracts are shelved in the Reading Room.

For books listed with the location Folios Noncirc, please ask for assistance at the Circulation Desk.
The Folio Room contains books that are either too large or too small in size to fit on the regular shelves.

Microfilm is located in the cabinets near the front door of the library.
To locate items on Microfilm, please ask for assistance at the Circulation Desk.
To use items on Microfilm, you will need to check the Microfilm out and then take it to Mullen Library. On the first floor of Mullen, there are Microfilm readers you may use. Use your copy card to make printouts (20 cents per page).

The WRLC Center is the storage site for the Washington Research Library Consortium.
To obtain books and journals from the WRLC Center, please submit a CLS request. Feel free to ask staff for assistance.

URL: http://libraries.cua.edu/engcoll/locguide.html

MODIFIED: January-24-2005