Subject Guide Geography, Geosciences

Locations of Books in Dortmund University Library

Central Library

• Books
  Shelf marks: E, Jc J (Geography); Wn (Earth Sciences)
• Textbooks (location: Ground floor)
  Shelf mark: L Ea (Geography)
• Not borrowable
  • Reference works such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies and handbooks are usually not borrowable. The same goes for individual copies of much-used texts for research and teaching.
  • Journals
    Shelf marks: ZE (Geography); ZWn (Earth Sciences)
    current year in rooum E 1

Emil-Figge-Bibliothek (EFB):

• Books (Short-term loan over-night or weekend).
  • Geography: Shelf classification / Keyword index
  • Spatial Planning (BR): Shelf marks 850 - 876
• Journals (not borrowable)
  Alphabetical shelving

Catalogues in Dortmund University Library

Media (books, videos ...):

• Catalogue plus
• The Digital Library: user profile Engineering
  Simultaneous search in catalogues and data bases.

Journals:

• Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB)
  ZDB contains the journal holdings of German libraries with holdings statements (Dortmund University Library institution code is 290). You can locate and order journals in the data base.
• Electronic Journals on Geography e-jornals and Earth Sciences, available at the TU Dortmund.
  Titles which have been licensed for Dortmund University Library can be located in a database.
• Article Search across Different Disciplines

University Publications:

• Eldorado  
  Catalogue of Dortmund University electronic publications (mainly theses). Full texts available.

Union catalogues:

• North Rhine-Westphalia: HBZ Collective Catalogue
  Library catalogue for North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate
• Deutschland: Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue (KVK)
  KVK is a meta-search interface for library and book trade catalogues throughout the world. It contains more than 75,000,000 book titles

If you didn't find what you searched for:

• Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery Services

Printed Bibliographies and Reference Works

Geography and its didactics were established in 1929 in the Pedagogical Academy Dortmund. Since then the library has acquired books on this item.

Printed bibliographies and reference works can be found in the Emil-Figge-Bibliothek, shelf mark GOA.