General Collections
See also:
Borrowing Policy
Book Purchase Request Form
Located on the Victoria University campus, the E.J. Pratt Library collection numbers approximately 250,000 items and contains books, periodicals, documents, pamphlets, multimedia and electronic resources, and specialized material, excluding theology, which support undergraduate studies at Victoria University. The collection is particularly strong in the areas of Canadian Studies; History; Classics; English, French, and German literature; Near Eastern Studies; Philosophy; Political Science and Religious Studies.
Special collections include works by and about E.J. Pratt, Northrop Frye, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Virginia Woolf / Bloomsbury, John Wesley, and many others. See Special Collections for more information.
The Collection is arranged by Library of Congress classification numbers. Each item is catalogued in UTCat, the University of Toronto Library catalogue. Each item, in addition to having a Library of Congress classification number, will have a location code indicating the the item's location and circulation status (i.e., whether you can borrow it). Locations for the E.J. Pratt Library collections are as follows:
Locations of our books
| Location Code* | Shelf location |
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*For other location codes, see a staff member for assistance. †Items do not circulate (can not be checked out) |
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| Stacks | A-G located on 2nd floor H-Z located on Ground floor |
| Periodical Stacks† | Alphabetically by title on 2nd floor |
| Short Term Loan | Ask at circulation desk |
| Reference Material† | A-Z on 1st floor in Reading Room |
See also:
Library floor plans