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Research: Call Number Ranges for Languages and Literature of Latin America

Library of Congress Classification
Dewey Decimal Call Number Ranges

 

Library of Congress Classification

PC Romanic Languages

Catalan Literature, PC3900-3976
Spanish Philology, PC4001-4071
Spanish Language, PC4073--4977
Portuguese Philology, PC5001-5041
Portuguese Language, PC5043-5498

PQ Spanish Literature, PQ6001-8929

Spain, PQ6007-PQ7011
US and Canadian authors of Spanish works, PQ7070-7079

PQ Portuguese Literature, PQ9000-9999

Portugal, PQ9000-9499
US and Canadian authors of Portuguese works, PQ9470-9479
Brazil, PQ9500-9698.36

PQ Literature of Spanish America, PQ 7081-8560

Mexico, PQ7100-
West Indies, PQ7361-
Cuba, PQ7370-
Dominican Republic, PQ7400-
Jamaica, PQ7410
Puerto Rico, PQ7420-
Other islands, PQ7450-
Central America, PQ7471- (General)
Costa Rica, PQ7480-
Guatemala, PQ7490-
Honduras, PQ7500-
Nicaragua, PQ7510-
Panama, PQ7520-
El Salvador, PQ7530-
South America, PQ7551-
Argentina, PQ7660-
Bolivia, PQ7880-
Brazil (Spanish language literature in), PQ7880-
Chile, PQ7990-
Colombia, PQ8160-
Ecuador, PQ8200-
Guiana, PQ8230-
Paraguay, PQ8250-
Peru, PQ8300-
Uruguay, PQ8510-
Venezuela, PQ8530-

Spanish American authors not identified with any country, PQ8560

PS U.S. Latino Literature

Note: This section includes works by and about Mexican-American (Chicano) authors writing in English or mixed English-Spanish. For those writing in Spanish, see PQ 7070-7079.

PS153.C27 Caribbean Americans
PS153.C83 Cuban Americans
PS153.H56 Hispanic Americans
PS153.M4 Mexican Americans
PS153.P83 Puerto Ricans
PS173.M39 Treatment of Special classes, A-Z. Mexican Americans
PS366.M49 Prose. Mexican Americans
PS374.M4837 Prose Fiction. Mexican Americans

Collections of American Literature

PS508.C27 Caribbean American authors
PS508.C83 Cuban Americans
PS508.H33 Haitian Americans
PS508.H57 Hispanic Americans
PS508.M4 Mexican American authors
PS508.P84 Puerto Rican authors

Collections of American Literature. Poetry

PS591.H33 Haitian American authors
PS591.H58 Hispanic American authors
PS591.M49 Mexican American authors
PS591.P8 Puerto Rican authors

Collections of American Literature. Drama

PS628.C82 Cuban American authors
PS628.H57 Hispanic American authors
PS628.M49 Mexican American authors
PS628.P84 Puerto Rican authors  

PS647.H58 Prose (General) Special classes of authors, A-Z. Hispanic Americans
PS647.M4 Prose (General) Special classes of authors, A-Z. Mexican Americans
PS648.M4 Prose (General) Special forms and topics, A-Z. Mexican Americans

Note: For individual U.S. latino authors, see PS700-3626 (arranged by period and then by alphabetical order)


Dewey Decimal Browsing Ranges

Latin America (General), 819.0-819.09
Mexico, 819.1-819.19
Central America, 819.2-819.29
Spanish Caribbean, 819.3-819.39
Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, 819.4-819.49
Brazil, 819.5-819.59
Chile, 819.6-819.69
Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, 819.7-819.79
Colombia, 819.8-819.89
Venezuela, 819.9-819.99
Spain, 860-868

860 Spanish & Portuguese literatures
861 Spanish poetry
862 Spanish drama
863 Spanish fiction
864 Spanish essays
865 Spanish speeches
866 Spanish letters
867 Spanish satire & humor
868 Spanish miscellaneous writings

Portugal, 869
South American native literatures, 898

 

   
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