Bic Codes
20th century
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
Abnormal psychology
Active outdoor pursuits
Adoption
Adoption & fostering
ADVENTURE
Adventure holidays
Adventure stories (Children's/YA)
Advice on careers & achieving success
Advice on parenting
Aerospace & aviation technology
African history
Age groups: children
Age groups: the elderly
AGRICULTURE & FARMING
Air forces & warfare
Aircraft: general interest
Alberta
Alcoholic beverages
Allergies
Alzheimer’s Syndrome and dementia
American Civil War
Animal stories (Children's/YA)
Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes, etc)
ANTHOLOGIES (NON-POETRY)
ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES
Arabian peninsula
ARCHITECTURE
Arms negotiation & control
Art: general interest (Children's/YA)
ASIA
Asian history
ASTRONOMY, SPACE & TIME
Banking
Batik & tie-dye
Biography: arts & entertainment
Biography: business & industry
BIOGRAPHY: GENERAL
Biography: historical, political & military
Biography: literary
Biography: royalty
Biography: science, technology & engineering
Biography: sport
BIOLOGY, LIFE SCIENCES
Black & Asian studies
Boating
Boxing
British & Irish history
British Columbia
Budget cookery
Budgeting & financial management
Buses, trams & commercial vehicles: general interest
BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT
Business ethics
Business negotiation
c 1600 to c 1700
c 1700 to c 1800
c 1800 to c 1900
c 1990 to c 2000
Cakes, baking, icing & sugarcraft
California
Calvinist, Reformed & Presbyterian Churches
Canada
Canoeing & kayaking
Careers guidance
Caribbean islands
Central government policies
Charities, voluntary services & philanthropy
Child abuse
CHILDREN'S & YOUNG ADULT GENERAL NON-FICTION
Christian mission & evangelism
Christian worship, rites & ceremonies
Christianity
Christmas
City & town planning . architectural aspects
CIVIL ENGINEERING, SURVEYING & BUILDING
Civil rights & citizenship
CLASSIC FICTION
Communications engineering / telecommunications
Community nursing
Company, commercial & competition law
Comparative politics
Complementary therapies, healing & health
Computer game guides (Children's/YA)
COMPUTING: GENERAL
Conservation of buildings & building materials
Conservation of the environment
Constitution: government & the state
Constitutional & administrative law
Contains explicit material
COOKERY / FOOD & DRINK ETC
Cookery by ingredient
Cookery dishes & courses
Cookery for specific diets & conditions
Cooking & food (Children's/YA)
Cooking for one
Cooking for parties
Cooking with fish & seafood
Cooking with herbs & spices
Cooking with specific gadgets
Coping with illness
Coping with personal problems
Coping with stress
Corporate finance
Counselling & advice services
Courts & procedure
Crime & criminology
CRIME & MYSTERY
Crime & mystery fiction (Children's/YA)
Criminal law & procedure
Criminal procedure
Curriculum planning & development
Cycling, boarding & skating (Children's/YA)
Decorative wood & metalwork
Deltas, estuaries, coastal regions
Desserts
Development economics
Dictionaries
Dietetics & nutrition
Diets & dieting
Diplomacy
DIY: carpentry & woodworking
Domestic violence
Early learning / early learning concepts
Early learning: ABC books / alphabet books
Early learning: time & seasons
EARTH SCIENCES
East Africa
Eastern Europe
Eco-tourist guides
Economic geography
Economic history
Economic systems & structures
ECONOMICS
ECONOMICS, FINANCE, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT
EDUCATION
Educational psychology
Educational strategies & policy
Educational: Art & design
Educational: Business studies
Educational: Languages other than English
Educational: Religious studies: Islam
Educational: Social sciences
Educational: Technology
Elections & referenda
Employment & labour law
ENCYCLOPAEDIAS & REFERENCE WORKS
Energy
Energy industries & utilities
Entrepreneurship
Environment law
Environmental medicine
Environmental policy and protocols
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
EROTIC FICTION
Espionage & secret services
Espionage & spy thriller
Ethical issues & debates
Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies
Ethnic studies
EUROPE
European history
Examinations & assessment
Exhibition catalogues & specific collections
Family & home stories (Children's/YA)
Family & relationships
Family law: marriage & divorce
Fantasy & magical realism (Children's/YA)
Feminism & feminist theory
Finance
First World War
First World War, 1914-1918
Fishing, angling
Folk & traditional music
Folklore, myths & legends
Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)
France
Funding of education & student finance
Garden design & planning
GARDENING
Gay & Lesbian studies
Gender studies, gender groups
Gender studies: men
Gender studies: women
General & world history
General cookery & recipes
General fiction (Children's/YA)
Geographical discovery & exploration
Geographical reference
Geology & the lithosphere
Geopolitics
Germany
Ghosts & poltergeists
Global warming
Globalization
Golf
Halloween
HANDICRAFTS, DECORATIVE ARTS & CRAFTS
Health & wholefood cookery
Health systems & services
Higher & further education, tertiary education
HISTORICAL FICTION
Historical fiction (Children's/YA)
Historical romance
Historiography
HISTORY
History & the past: general interest (Children's/YA)
History of architecture
HISTORY OF ART / ART & DESIGN STYLES
History of education
History of engineering & technology
History of ideas
History of medicine
History of religion
History of science
History of specific companies / corporate history
History of sport
History of the Americas
Hobbies, quizzes & games (Children's/YA)
HOLIDAYS & SEASONAL INTEREST
Home nursing & caring
Homelessness
Horses & ponies
Hotel & holiday accommodation guides
Housing law
Human geography
Human rights
Human rights & civil liberties law
Humorous stories (Children's/YA)
HUMOUR
Humour & jokes (Children's/YA)
Ice hockey
Illness & addiction: social aspects
Indigenous peoples
Individual architects & architectural firms
Individual artists, art monographs
Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups
Individual photographers
Industrial relations & safety
INDUSTRY & INDUSTRIAL STUDIES
International business
International economics
International institutions
INTERNATIONAL LAW
International relations
Internet: general works
Investment & securities
Jewish studies
JURISPRUDENCE & GENERAL ISSUES
Labour economics
Language readers
LANGUAGE TEACHING & LEARNING (OTHER THAN ELT)
LANGUAGE: REFERENCE & GENERAL
Legal profession: general
Libraries, museums, schools (Children's/YA)
Limnology (freshwater)
LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIES
LITERATURE: HISTORY & CRITICISM
Local government law
Local history
Macroeconomics
Man-made objects depicted in art (cityscapes, machines, etc)
Management & management techniques
Management accounting & bookkeeping
Management of land & natural resources
Manufacturing industries
Marine biology
Media studies
Media, information & communication industries
Medical & healthcare law
Medical insurance
Medical profession
Medical research
Medicolegal issues
MEMOIRS
Mental health services
Meteorology & climatology
Microeconomics
Migration, immigration & emigration
Military history
Mining technology & engineering
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Monetary economics
Multicultural education
Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides
Musical scores, lyrics & libretti
National & regional cuisine
Natural disasters
Nature, the natural world (Children's/YA)
Naval forces & warfare
Neurology & clinical neurophysiology
New Brunswick
Newfoundland
Non-alcoholic beverages
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
Non-profitmaking organizations
North America
Northwest Territories
Nova Scotia
Nuclear weapons
Nunavut
Nursing
NURSING & ANCILLARY SERVICES
Occupational medicine
Oceanography (seas)
Of specific Gay interest
Offences against the government
Olympic games
Ontario
Open learning, home learning, distance education
Organization & management of education
Organized crime
Outdoor survival skills
Paralegals & paralegalism
Parties, etiquette & entertaining
Pasta dishes
Peace studies & conflict resolution
Penology & punishment
People & places (Children's/YA)
PERSONAL & SOCIAL ISSUES
Personal & social issues: body & health (Children's/YA)
Personal & social issues: bullying, violence & abuse (Children's/YA)
Personal & social issues: death & bereavement (Children's/YA)
Personal & social issues: disability & special needs (Children's/YA)
Personal & social issues: divorce, separation, family break-up (Children's/YA)
Personal & social issues: drugs & addiction (Children's/YA)
Personal & social issues: family issues (Children's/YA)
Personal & social issues: racism & multiculturalism (Children's/YA)
Personal & social issues: self-awareness & self-esteem (Children's/YA)
Personal & social issues: sex education & the facts of life (Children's/YA)
Personal & social issues: sexuality & relationships (Children's/YA)
Personal & social issues: teenage pregnancy (Children's/YA)
Personal computers
Personal finance
Personnel & human resources management
Pharmacology
Pharmacy / dispensing
PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy & theory of education
Photographic reportage
PHOTOGRAPHY & PHOTOGRAPHS
Places & peoples: pictorial works
PLAYS, PLAYSCRIPTS
POETRY
Poetry (Children's/YA)
Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Police & security services
Political activism
Political control & freedoms
Political economy
Political ideologies
Political leaders & leadership
Political parties
Political science & theory
Political structure & processes
Political structures: democracy
Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
Popular astronomy & space
Popular culture
Popular medicine & health
Population & demography
Poverty & unemployment
Pre-school & kindergarten
Preserving & freezing
Primary industries
Primary sources of law
Prince Edward Island
Protestantism & Protestant Churches
Psychopharmacology
Public administration
Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc
Public finance
Public health & preventive medicine
Puzzle books (Children's/YA)
Quebec
Quick & easy cooking
Quiltmaking, patchwork & applique
Reading skills
Reference works
REGIONAL & AREA PLANNING
Regional government
Religion & beliefs: general interest (Children's/YA)
Reproductive medicine
Republic of South Africa
Research & development management
Residential buildings, domestic buildings
Retirement
Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions
Road & motor vehicles: general interest
Rock & Pop music
Rocks, minerals & fossils
ROMANCE
Romance & relationships stories (Children's/YA)
Rural communities
Russia
SAGAS
Sailing
Salads
School stories (Children's/YA)
Science & technology: general interest (Children's/YA)
Science funding & policy
Scientific equipment, experiments & techniques
Sea life & the seashore
Second World War
Second World War, 1939-1945
SELF-HELP & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Separation & divorce
Service industries
Sexual abuse & harassment
Ships & shipping: general interest
Short stories
Small businesses & self-employed
Social & cultural anthropology
Social & cultural history
Social & political philosophy
Social classes
Social discrimination
Social impact of disasters
Social impact of environmental issues
Social issues & processes
Social issues: environment & green issues (Children's/YA)
Social welfare & social services
Social work
SOCIETY & CULTURE: GENERAL
Sociology
Sociology: death & dying
Sociology: family & relationships
Soups & starters
Space (Children's/YA)
Special kinds of photography
Spinning & weaving
Sporting stories (Children's/YA)
Sports & outdoor recreation (Children's/YA)
Study & learning skills: general
Swimming & water sports (Children's/YA)
Teaching of a specific subject
Teaching skills & techniques
Television technology
Terrorism, armed struggle
THE ARTS
The Earth: natural history general
The Holocaust
THE NATURAL WORLD, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS
THRILLER / SUSPENSE
Traditional stories (Children's/YA)
Trains & railways: general interest
Transport (Children's/YA)
Transport planning & policy
TRANSPORT: GENERAL INTEREST
TRAVEL & HOLIDAY
Travel maps & atlases
Treaties & other sources of international law
Trees, wildflowers & plants
True crime
Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal
United Kingdom, Great Britain
Urban & municipal planning
Urban communities
Urban economics
USA
Vegetarian cookery
Violence in society
Walking, hiking, trekking
WARFARE & DEFENCE
Warfare, battles, armed forces (Children's/YA)
Weapons & equipment
Weather
Wildlife: aquatic creatures
Wildlife: birds & birdwatching
Wildlife: butterflies, other insects & spiders
Wildlife: general interest
Wildlife: mammals
Work & industry / world of work (Children's/YA)
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