UCLA Library: YRL Cataloging Department
Call Numbers Manual
Prepared by Cataloging Documentation Committee: Melissa Beck, Don Brown,
Pat Hall, Barbara Rapoport and Angela Riggio
July 1991
Table of Contents
CALL NUMBERS I: General Call Number Policy
- General Guidelines
- Exceptions to LC Practice
- Erroneous Class Numbers
- Conflicting Call Numbers
- Recording Call Number in Shelflist
- Physical Placement of Call Number in Work
- Volume Designation Guide
- Size Designation Guide
- General Policy
- Exceptions to General Policy
CALL NUMBERS II: Library of Congress Call Numbers
- Introduction
- Classification Number
- Cutter Number
- Date in Call Number
- LC Shelflist Order for Dates
- Shelflist Order for Dates
- Dates: Special Situations
- Edition or Reprint
- Corporate Authorship
- Class Subarranged by Date Only
- Class Subarranged by Date and Main
Entry
- Photocopies
- Facsimiles
- Multiple Volumes
- Months in Call Numbers
- Serials
- Other Distinguishing Parts of Call
Numbers
- Volume Numbers
- Copies
- Abbreviations to be Used in Call
Numbers
- Double Cutter Numbers
- Topical Double Cutter Numbers
- Country or Region Double Cutter
Numbers
- Biographical Double Cutter Numbers
- Translations
- Translation Table
- Documents
- Congresses and Conferences
CALL NUMBERS III: Local Call Numbers
- Introduction
- Local Cutter Numbers
- Work Marks
- Date in Call Number
- Double Cutters
- Individual Biography Cutter Table
- Literary Double Cutter Numbers
- Translation Work Marks
- Abridgments and Selections
- Government Documents
- Literature Cuttering Schemes
- PA
- PC
- PF
- PG
- PH
- PJ
- PK
- PL
- PM
- PQ & PT
- PR & PS
- PT
APPENDIX A: Cataloging Department Reserved or Modified Call Numbers
APPENDIX B: Table V in N Classification: Local Cutter Table for Assigning
Range of Numbers, xA6-x79
APPENDIX C: Cuttering Guide for UCLA Departmental Theses and Dissertations
Table of Contents | General
Policy | LC Call Numbers |
Local Call Numbers | Reserved/Modified
Call Numbers | Table V in N Class |
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Last updated: 18 October, 1995
Maintained by Cataloging Department, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Louise Ratliff, Editor
lratliff@library.ucla.edu