To find works of literature in the library, start in the Library Catalog and Worldcat and use any of these search strategies:
- Do a Browse Search by Author
- Do a Browse Search by Title
- Do an Advanced Search for the words "fiction", "short fiction" "drama" "poetry" in the Subject field
- Do a Advanced Search for the word "novel" in the Title field
Remember that subject classification is not consistently applied - so you need to run a combination of searches to be comprehensive.
To find literary scholarship published in book format: use the subject heading History and Criticism and combine it with your topic or an author.
For example:
Library of Congress Classification Outline for Class P.
| P | Philology. Linguistics |
| PA | Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature |
| PB | Modern languages. Celtic language |
| PC | Romanic languages |
| PD | Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages |
| PE | English language |
| PF | West Germanic languages |
| PG | Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian language |
| PH | Uralic languages. Basque language |
| PJ | Oriental languages and literatures |
| PK | Indo-Iranian languages and literatures |
| PL | Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PM Hyperborean, Indian, and artificial languages |
| PN | Literature (General) |
| PQ | French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature |
| PR | English literature |
| PS | American literature |
| PT | German literature - Dutch literature - Flemish literature since 1830 Afrikaans literature - Scandinavian literature - Old Norse literature: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian - Modern Icelandic literature - Faroese literature - Danish literature - Norwegian literature - Swedish literature |
| PZ | Fiction and juvenile belles lettres |