Babbidge Library Reference Collection

The Homer Babbidge Library Reference Collection contains some thirty-five thousand volumes that have been brought together and made non-circulating in order to assure immediate and equal access to the information they contain. Reference sources include such items as encyclopedias, handbooks, directories, almanacs, atlases, statistical abstracts, language dictionaries, biographical dictionaries, bibliographies, newspaper and periodical indexes, legal digests, state and federal statutes, technical standards and codes, concordances, test measurements, and scientific tables. The Reference Stacks are arranged according to the Library of Congress Classification System. Most reference books will be found at their call number within the collection; however, heavily used sources (such as current Connecticut Statutes, Corporate Directories, and Books in Print) have been set out on Index Tables for convenience. In addition, those works most readily consulted by librarians on duty (such as the Encyclopedia of Associations and the Statistical Abstract of the United States) have been shelved behind the Information & Research Services Desk. The Reference Census Collection includes the U.S. Decennial Censuses from 1790 to the present as well as the Current Population Reports -- Scott Kennedy; Research and Information Services, Area Head Electronic Reference Shelf Online Reference Books (eBooks) Library of Congress Classification Location within the Homer Babbidge Library Selected Encyclopedias of the Reference Collection by LC This page is maintained by Kate Fuller