Browsing the Collection
Our main book collection for Medicine is housed at our Medical Library, which is located at Level 20 of the Clinical Sciences Building at LKCMedicine’s Novena Campus on Mandalay Road. A smaller collection of books on Medicine can also be found at Level 4 of the Lee Wee Nam Library in NTU.
Below are a list of core subject areas in Medicine with their call number ranges included. Use these numbers to locate relevant books on the shelves.
| Core Subject Area | Call Number Range |
| Medicine and the humanities | R702 – R703 |
| Public Health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine | RA421 – RA790.95 |
| Pathology | RB |
| Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology | RC252 – RC282 |
| Psychiatry | RC435 – RC571 |
| Internal Medicine | RC581 – RC935 |
| Geriatrics | RC952 – RC954.6 |
| Surgery | RD |
| Ophthalmology | RE |
| Otorhinolaryngology | RF |
| Gynecology and obstetrics | RG |
| Pediatrics | RJ |
| Dentistry | RK |
| Dermatology | RL |
| Therapeutics. Pharmacology | RM |
| Pharmacy | RS |
| Chiropractic | RZ201 – RZ275 |
| Osteopathy | RZ301 – RZ397.5 |
More on call numbers
Call numbers may look random, but librarians follow certain rules when putting the call numbers together. If you understand how the library classifies its books, it will save you time when you are looking for books and help you to discover more books which you may otherwise have missed.
In NTU Library, we follow the Library of Congress Classification System (LC for short).