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A Guide to Neuroscience Resources

This guide contains information about and resources for the study of neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis.

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At WashU, and at many academic libraries in the United States, we use an organization system developed by the Library of Congress.  This system works to organize materials by subject. 

For more information on this organization schema, please see the Library of Congress Classification Outline

Here is a hypothetical shelf of books with the call numbers explained:

An exmaple row of spine labels showing book call numbers in proper order, showing how to read the letters and numbers in ascending order to locate your book.