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Humanities & Social Sciences Books/E-Books

Library Catalogue
An Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) is an online portal of Library Automation System used to search the library resources and members transactions. OPAC is user friendly and accessible anywhere, any time.  Users can search the books by entering various fields like Title, Author, Subject, Keyword, Accession &  Class Numbers etc and track the physical location of books in the Library. In OPAC users can create their account and set their password.  Users can get the information about the availability of the book(s) in the Library, books on their possession, due date(s), they can also track their account to know the transactions done, overdue fine accumulated and they can reserve the books online. OPAC saves the time of the user as it provides complete details of the library resources available. Users can search books using OPAC through their smartphone and tablets also.
How to locate HSS books in the library?
The Library, IIT Ropar uses Dewey Decimal Classification system and simple author code to classify books. 

A class number is a simple number used to identify & locate books in the library. 

Example: 121 for Reason, Truth, and History in HSS.

An author code is simple letters used to identify titles written by a different author, i.e,  first three letters of the last name of he of the first author / first letter of the last name of the second author (if any). 
 
Call No.         Subject Groups
121               : Reason, Truth, and History
121.3            : Fear of Knowledge
124               : Philosophy of Design
150               : Psychology
400               : Language Instinct
495               : Aesthetics of Grammar
Year-wise Books & E-Books added
S.N.
Title
Author
Year of Addition
 
1
   
Gujarathi, D.N.
 
2021
 
2
   
Brooks, C.
 
2021
 
3
   
Salvadore, D.
 
2021
 
4
   
Cox, F.
 
2020
 
5
   
Meisel, J.M.
 
2020
 
6
   
Hickey, R.
 
2020
 
7
   
Herschensohn, J.
 
2020
 
8
   
Clark, T.
 
2020
 
9
   
McWhorter, J.H.
 
2020
 
10
   
Conners,  T.J.  
 
2020
 
11
   
Lipton, M.
 
2020
 
12
   
Plumwood, V.
 
2020
 
13
   
Buell, L.
 
2020
 
14
   
Fouquet, R.
 
2020
 
15
   
Hyltenstam, K.
 
2020
 
16
   
Ludwig, R.
 
2020
 
17
   
Eckert, P.
 
2020
 
18
   
Oakes, L.
 
2020
 
19
   
Garrard, G.
 
2020
 
20
   
Ward, N.G.
 
2020
 
21
   
Weil, K.
 
2020
 
22
   
Hulst, H.V.D.
 
2020
 
24
   
Babel, A.M.
 
2019
 
25
   
Torres, R.
 
2019
 
26
   
Houwer, A.D.
 
2019
 
27
   
Braunmuller, K.T.
 
2019
 
28
   
Levis, J. M.
 
2019
 
29
   
Féry, C.
 
2019
 
30
   
Montgomery, C.
 
2019
 
31
   
Davies, W.D.
 
2019
 
32
   
Drechsel, J.
 
2019
 
33
   
Read, C.
 
2019
 
34
   
Fuente, D.L.
 
2019
 
35
   
Hogg, R.M.
 
2019
 
36
   
Snowdon, B. 
 
2019
 
37
   
Baerman, M.
 
2019
 
38
   
Serletis, A.
 
2019
 
39
   
Wayland, R.
 
2019
 
40
   
Wee, L.-H.
 
2019
 
41
   
Edwards, J.G.H.
 
2019
 
42
   
Pihlaja, S.
 
2019
 
43
   
Cummings, L.
 
2019
 
44
   
Brezina, V.
 
2019
 
45
   
Goedemans, R.
 
2019
 
46
   
Goldsmith, J. A.
 
2019
 
47
   
Riad, T.
 
2019
 
48
   
Rickford, J.R.
 
2019
 
49
   
Hulst, H.V.D.
 
2019
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