Locating books

  • The place to start is the Library Catalogue.  The Catalogue includes printed and electronic books held by the Library
  • Enter your search terms and then use the options on the left hand side of the screen to refine your results. You can use the Advanced search option if you wish to combine specific terms such as author and keyword.  Further help can be obtained from the catalogue help page.
  • Each item has a map available showing the location of the material
  • All books have a classmark, made up of letters, then numbers and finally a filing suffix     
  • A classic version of the catalogue is also available        

The main broad subjects for Accounting and Finance and their classmarks are:

Subject Classmark
Accounting: Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Auditing HF 5601-5689
Finance (general) HG 1-9999
Foreign exchange, International finance HG3810-4000
Finance management, Business finance HG4001-4280.7
Investments, capital markets, etc. HG 4501-6051
Public sector accounting HJ 9925
Organizational management HD 28-70
Capital, Capital investments HD 39-40.7
Cost/benefit analysis HD 47-47.4
Social and cultural anthropology GN301-673
Maths, Information Systems, Game theory QA
  • The majority of Accounting and Finance material is located on the 2nd floor. Other classmarks can be found using the Library floorplan 

Reading lists

  • There is a separate Course Collection for essential and background readings on reading lists that is only accessible by LSE staff and students in term time.  Some background readings may be located as Recommended Texts in the Main Collection. 
  • You can short-cut the searching for reading list books by clicking on the 'Reading lists'  link on the Library Catalogue

Books not held at LSE

  • You can look for books in other libraries using a number of the different catalogues listed here
  • Use the Inter-Library Lending system for books that you cannot easily get to yourself by clicking on the 'Requests and inter-lending' button on the Library Catalogue and select the 'Request a book from another library' option