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Automotive

Use this guide to access library resources, including databases, books, academic journals, and textbooks, Open Educational Resources, and freely available online resources related to the subject of Automotive Maintenance, Service, and Repair.

Chilton Library

Chilton Library

The Chilton Library is available through the Arrowhead Library System to students at HCC and patrons at libraries within the Arrowhead Library System.  Chilton provides up-to-date vehicle information for both domestic and imported vehicles.  Users can start by searching for a particular year, make, and model of vehicle, and then navigate through tabs and links with information on necessary repairs, maintenance issues, safety bulletins, recall information to access the appropriate information and images for service and repairs.  Chilton also provides a Labor Estimating Tool that uses industry-standards to determine proprietary labor times. Some materials can be read to you using text-to-speech technology. Finally, Chilton also provides practice tests for ASE Certification.

Minnesota North College Library Books

Where to Look in the Library?

Libraries using Dewey Decimal Classification

  • Minnesota North - Hibbing Campus 
  • Minnesota North - Itasca Campus
  • Minnesota North - Mesabi Range - Virginia Campus

Libraries using Library of Congress Classification

  • Minnesota North - Rainy River Campus
  • Minnesota North - Vermilion Campus

A call number, also known as a classification number, is the numerical or alpha-numerical string of numbers and letters that libraries use to identify, organize, and find individual items on library shelves.

All print or paper copies of books in the library are assigned a call number, usually found on the book spine (this is often referred to as a spine label).

The call number represents what the book is about and acts like the book's address on the library's shelves, also known as stacks. Because books on the shelves are arranged in call number order, you will find books on similar subjects shelved near each other.

Spine Label Examples:

      Dewey Decimal                  Fiction                 Library of Congress

Dewey Decimal Spine Label Fiction Spine LabelLibrary of Congress Spine Label

The Dewey Decimal Classification System is a classification system by which libraries organize their Non-Fiction collections numerically by subject.  The system divides all knowledge into 9 basic subject classes, ranging numerically from 000-999. All Dewey Decimal call numbers are at least 3 digits long, and may be further extended by the use of decimal numbers. Each digit of a Dewey Decimal number signifies a level of subject specificity.

Dewey Decimal # 629.2

The Dewey number 629.2 (and all its decimal points) is designated for Motor Land Vehicles (such as cars), their design, engines, maintenance, and repair.  If you wish to browse the library collection in search of a book about Automotive Vehicles, this would be a good place to start.

The Library of Congress Classification System is a classification system by which libraries organize their Non-Fiction collections alpha-numerically by subject.  The system divides all knowledge into 21 basic classes, each identified by a single letter of the alphabet. Most of these alphabetical classes are further divided into more specific subclasses, identified by two-letter combinations. Following these alphabetical headings, each topic is assigned a single number or a span of numbers. Whole numbers used in LCC may range from one to four digits in length, and may be further extended by the use of decimal numbers.

Library of Congress # TL

The TL range of Library of Congress call numbers is designated for topics related to Motor Vehicles.

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