Use the NOBLE Catalog to find books, e-books, dvds, and streaming videos from McQuade, as well as the 26 other libraries in our consortium (NOBLE). If another library has something you want, you can easily place a hold for delivery to McQuade for pickup. To place a hold, you will need to set up your Library Catalog password.
If a book is available in NOBLE, request it through interlibrary loan (ILL) at no charge and pick it up at the first floor Library Services Desk when it arrives.
The library uses the Library of Congress Classification system. Because books are organized by subject, you can browse the stacks and find books on the same topic shelved together.
| Subject | Call Number |
| History of the Americas | E - F |
| United States Local History | F1 - F975 |
| Boston - History | F73, F75 |
| Transportation and Communication | HE |
| Urban Transportation | HE305 - HE311 |
| Traffic Engineering | HE331 - HE380 |
| Social History and Conditions, Social Problems; Social Reform | HN |
| Social History and Conditions by Region or Country | HN50 - HN995 |
| Social History and Conditions - Boston | HN80 .B |
| Communities, Classes. Race. | HT |
| Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology | HT101 - HT395 |
| Architecture | NA |
| Architecture -- History | NA190 - NA1555.5 |
| Architecture -- Special classes of buildings -- Classed by form | N A4150 - NA4160 |
| Architecture -- Aesthetics of cities, City planning & beautifying | NA9000 - NA9428 |
The Boston renaissance : race, space, and economic change in an American metropolis.
Heroic : concrete architecture and the new Boston / editors, Mark Pasnik, Michael Kubo, Chris Grimley.
The North End : a brief history of Boston's oldest neighborhood / Alex R. Goldfeld.
Also available via Overdrive/Libby
Walkable city : how downtown can save America, one step at a time / Jeff Speck
The new Bostonians : how immigrants have transformed the metro area since the 1960s / Marilynn S. Johnson.
Urban archaeology Boston : discovering the history hidden in plain sight / Dan Tobyne.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by 
The Eyes of the Skin by 
