LAC - Library of American Civilization:  E156 .L5  and
         LEL - Library of English Literature:  PR1101 .L5

• WHAT: 
  LAC is a collection of materials on microfiche relating to all aspects of American life and literature from their beginnings to the outbreak of World War I. Included in the collection are pamphlets, periodicals, documents, biographies and autobiographies, fictional works, poetry, collections of various kinds, materials of foreign origin relating to America, and many rare books not generally available. 
  LEL is a collection on microfiche containing material relating to all aspects of English literature from its beginning to the Restoration in 1660 Included in the collection are Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, Tudor, and Elizabethan,  materials as well as many examples of  poetry, drama, essays, prose fiction, and religious, philosophical, and critical works both contemporary with the period covered and modern. Major works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton, among others, are included along with sufficient materials for textual study.
  
  LAC and LEL are both mounted in a fiche format called ultrafiche which reduces the original image even more than regular microfiche does.  When using these collections you will need to ask the Media Desk staff to load the X87 lens on the reader printer you are working at.  Note that high quality prints are virtually impossible from this format.
   
• FORMAT & SCOPE:  Ultra-fiche.  Complete.
   
• ORGANIZATION:  Both the LAC and LEL are organized by fiche number.
   
• INDEX:  The contents of these collections appear in the online catalog as unique entries.  All entries have the call number assigned to these respective collections.  Additional digits follow the call number and these digits designate the fiche number.
                  EXAMPLE: LAC       E156 .L5 10174
                                      LEL        PR1101 .L5  11773
  Additionally paper volumes are available for each collection and are shelved in the Microform Index area along the south windows on Wilson 2 West.  These indexes can be useful for example if a user wanted to see all of the documents by a particular author and their location in the LEL.
                  LAC Index:  E156 .L52  4 volumes
                  LEL Index:  PR1101 L52