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SSEES Area Guide to South East Europe

Books and e-books

The majority of the print collection on South East Europe is kept on the open shelves at UCL SSEES Library. The collection is located on the Lower Ground Floor of the Library.

To find the physical location of a particular collection, please check our self-guided tour of UCL SSEES Library.

SSEES Library interior

Pamphlets and rare items are held in the onsite local store and are available on request. Low-use material is relegated to UCL Library Services off-site store. For information on how to find and request store items, please see our stores service page.

There is an increasing number of e-books, particularly English language materials. Almost all of our books and e-books can be found in Explore, our library catalogue.

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Check out our Explore guide to find out more about how to use Explore for your research.

How to find a book at UCL SSEES Library

To take an example, a book on Bulgarian history would be found in a sequence of other books relating to various aspects of Bulgarian studies. The first element of the classification is an alphabetical mnemonic for the country – for Bulgaria this is the letter “B”. This is followed by Roman numerals – the classification for history is “IX” and will be followed by further subdivisions to describe different historical periods. The pattern is similar for other countries: A.IX is the section for Albanian history, Rou.IX for Romanian history and so on. See our classification scheme:

Other collections

  • Art includes Film Studies.
  • Economics: provides material on economic theory and policy.
  • Hebrew & Jewish Studies: covers all aspects of Jewish history, languages, literature and culture.
  • History: for individual European countries' political, social and economic history and the Latin American History collection for extensive coverage of Latin American social, political and economic history.
  • Literature: includes books on literary topics not specific to any one language, literary theory, literature translated into English.
  • Philosophy: books and periodicals on European philosophy.
  • Political Science and Public Policy
  • Geography. There are sections on physical geography, human geography and material relating to specific countries.
  • The British Library holds one of the leading research collections in the world for the study of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and the former USSR.
  • The Senate House Library holds collections specialising in the arts, literature, the humanities and social sciences.