The library switches from SAB to Dewey

Letters become numbers when the university library changes classification scheme

The National Library of Sweden and a number of Swedish libraries, among them Linköping University Library, have decided that from 1 January 2011 to substitute the SAB classification system with the Dewey Decimal Classification System (DDC).

Library users will notice that books will be organized according to numbers instead of letters. All books labeled with DDC numbers are located in Nya boksamlingen (the new book collection).

Click here to see how it appears in the library catalogue

At present (January 2013) over 100 000 books have been labeled with DDC numbers. The work entails some relocations in our libraries. During the transition period there will be two separate collections: books shelved according to DDC in Nya boksamlingen (The new book collection), located close to the library’s entrance, and books shelved according to SAB in Boksamlingen (The book collection), in the interior parts of the library. 

• We have since January 2011 been shelving all new books according to DDC.
• We have labeled all reference copies of textbooks (REFKURS) with DDC numbers. At the HumSam Library they are kept behind the counter and are borrowed there for use in the library only. At the TekNat, Campus Norrköping, and Health Sciences Libraries they are shelved near the Nya boksamlingen together with the other DDC labeled books.
• We continuously label returned books with DDC numbers.
• We have labeled all our reference books with DDC numbers. They are now shelved in Nya boksamlingen.

At present lists of new books are not available in English.

European Documentation Centre (EDC)

Linköping University Library has the status of a European Documentation Centre, which means that the library obtains almost all official publications from the European Union. This collection is located at the Humanistiska biblioteket (Humanities and Social Science Library).

Click here for further information about EDC

Färö

A collection of literature in Faroese or about the Faroe Islands, donated by Ejnar Fors Bergström, is located in the Humanistiska biblioteket (Humanities and Social Science Library). The collection is catalogued and searchable through the local online catalogue or Libris.

Nordens folkliga akademi (NFA)

NFA's library was donated to Linköping University in June 2004 after the Nordic Council of Ministers decided  to close the library in October 2003. The University was chosen to receive the donation after the library and the department for vuxenutbildning och folkbildning expressed interest. THe collection consists of ca. 14,600 titles. The collection also contains journals. whoch will be cataloged and placed at HumSam-biblioteket.

Peter Hellqvist collection

Literature mainly about cabinet-making as handicraft, about furniture design and about wood as material. The collection used to belong to the cabinet-maker Peter Hellqvist, a former student of the earlier Carl Malmsten Verkstadsskola. The collection, consisting of 257 titles, also includes literature dealing with Japanese cabinet-making tradition.

Please click this link to get a list of the titles included in the collection.

Stolpe

French and German language literature from mostly the beginning of the 1900s. The collection was owned by well-known writer Sven Stolpe, PhD. The books are stamped Stolpe-samlingen.

At Linköping University Library we have about 500 000 books in our collections.

Books at Linköping University Library

In the library catalog you can find information about what books the library have, in which library, and on what shelf they are located. Here you can also see if the book is available or checked out.

Search the library catalogue

E-books

The library has more than 100 000 e-books linked from the library catalogue. You can also browse the collections from each distributor. Click here to see the list.

Find books in other libraries

If the library doesn't have the book that you search for there are several other search services. In order to get the books you find elsewhere, you can either make a purchase suggestion or make an inter library loan.

Swedish libraries

Libris Union catalogue for the Swedish university libraries.

bibliotek.se Union catalogue for many Swedish public libraries.

Linköpings stadsbibliotek Linköping City library catalogue.

Norrköpings stadsbibliotek Norrköping City library catalogue.

Östgötabibliotek Search portal for all libraries from Östergötland.

International libraries

Worldcat The worlds largest catalogue listing books from all over the world.

Library of Congress United States national catalogue.

Bibsys Union catalogue for the norweigan libraries.

British Library Union catalogue for the brittish libraries.

Linda Union catalogue for the finnish libraries.

bibliotek.dk Union catalogue for the danish libraries.