Descriptions and Organizations

The Madrid Campus Library is bilingual in nature. It currently has some 8,000 books in its holdings, subscribes to some sixty journals, and maintains a small but select collection of audiovisual materials. It also provides its users a wide variety of electronic resources, such as databases, electronic journals, ebooks and electronic reference materials, through the SLU Proxy Access from the main campus. All these resources are continually augmented and updated and have as their primary objective meeting the academic needs of the courses offered on the Madrid Campus.


Collection Organization

The library’s collection is organized according to the Dewey Decimal Classification System (DDC), in which the following are the main categories:
000 Generalities & Information Sciences
100 Philosophy & Psychology
200 Religion
300 Social Sciences
400 Language
500 Natural Sciences & Mathematics
600 Technology (Applied sciences)
700 The Arts
800 Literature & Rhetoric
900 Geography & History