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| Preferred Shelflist Order-Individual Authors |
| Cutter Table |
| Adding Dates to Call numbers |
| Translation Cutters |
| Biography Table |
Preferred Shelflist Order - Individual Authors |
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When the works of an individual author are filed in a single class number, they are arranged in the following order: |
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| Collected works | By date | .L54 1966 | |
| Translations | By date | .L5412-5419 1986 | |
| Selected works | By date | .L542 1986 | |
| Translations | By date | .L54212-54219 1986 | |
| Separate works | By title | . | |
| Original work | Cutter and date | .L55 1952 | |
| Facsimile or photocopy of original work |
Cutter and date with a | .L55 1952a .L55 1952aa,ab,etc. |
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| Edition or reprint | Cutter and date | .L55 1967 | |
| Facsimile or photocopy of edition |
Cutter and date of edition with a | .L55 1967a .L55 1967aa,ab,etc. |
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| Translation | Cutter expanded by 12-19 and date | .L5513 1963 (English translation] | |
| Selection, abridgement, or condensed version | Cutter expanded by 2 and date | .L552 1981 .S6 L552 1981 |
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| Translation of selection, abridgement, or condensed version | Cutter expanded by 212-219 and date | .L55213 1982 (English translation) | |
| Adaptations | By adapter, A-Z, used only for works cataloged prior to AACR2. Adaptations are now classed with works of adapter | ||
| Criticism | Cutter expanded by 3 or 3-39 and date | .L553 T5 1976 .S6 L5537 1976 |
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| Biography and criticism | By author, A-Z | .L56 B78 1986 | |
citation--Chan, Lois Mai. A guide to the Library of Congress classification. 5th ed. Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1999. p. 523 |
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Cutter Table |
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| 1. | After initial vowels for the second letter use number: | b 2 |
d 3 |
l-m 4 |
n 5 |
p 6 |
r 7 |
s-t 8 |
u-y 9 |
| 2. | After initial letter S for the second letter use number: | a 2 |
ch 3 |
e 4 |
h-i 5 |
m-p 6 |
t 7 |
u 8 |
w-z 9 |
| 3. | After initial letters Qu for the second letter use number: | . | a 3 |
e 4 |
i 5 |
o 6 |
r 7 |
t 8 |
y 9 |
| 4. | After other initial consonants for the second letter use no.: | . | a 3 |
e 4 |
i 5 |
o 6 |
r 7 |
u 8 |
y 9 |
| 5. | For third and fourth letter expansion use numbers: | . | a-d 3 |
e-h 4 |
i-l 5 |
m-o 6 |
p-s 7 |
t-v 8 |
w-z 9 |
Library of Congress, Subject Cataloging Manual: Shelflisting, G60, p. 14 |
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Adding Dates to Call Numbers |
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Date in bibliographic record |
Date in call number |
| 1976? | 1976 |
| ca. 1976 | 1976 |
| 1981, c1980 | 1981 |
| 1971, c1972 | 1972 |
| 1979 [i.e. 1987] | 1978 |
| 1962 or 1963 | 1962 |
| 1969 (1973 printing) | 1969 |
| 1980 printing, c1957 | 1957 |
| 1979 [distributed] 1980 | 1979 |
| 1979-1981 | 1979 [1980 if congress or conference heading] |
| between 1977 and 1980 | 1977 |
| 1978/79 [i.e. 1978 or 1979] | 1978 |
| 1977 (cover 1978) | 1978 |
| 197- | 1970z [if corporate body, use 1970] |
| 197-? | 1970z [if corporate body, use 1970] |
| 19-- | 1900z [if corporate body, use 1900] |
| 19--? | 1900z [if corporate body, use 1900] |
| The basic rule is to add the date of imprint to all monographs | |
| For a photocopy of facsimile edition, the work letter "a" is added to the date of the original work, for example, .U54 1952, .U54 1952a, .U54 1952aa, .U54 1952ab, etc. | |
| If there is more than one edition of a title published in the same year, the same imprint date, with the addition of a letter beginning with "b", is added in order of receipt, for example: .R67 1988, .R67 1988b, .R67 1988c, .R67 1988d, etc. | |
citation--Chan, Lois Mai. A guide to the Library of Congress classification. 5th ed. Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1999. |
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Translation Table |
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| .x | cutter for Original work |
| .x12 | Polyglot* (assigned when a work is written in several languages) |
| .x13 | English translation |
| .x14 | French translation |
| .x15 | German translation |
| .x16 | Italian translation |
| .x17 | Russian translation |
| .x18 | Spanish translation |
citation--Chan, Lois Mai. A guide to the Library of Congress classification. 5th ed. Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1999. |
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Biography Table |
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| .x | Cutter for the biographee | ||||
| .xA2 | Collected works. By date | ||||
| .xA25 | Selected works. Selections. By date, including quotations | ||||
| .xA3 | Autobiography, diaries, etc. By date | ||||
| .xA4 | Letters. By date | ||||
| .xA5 | Speeches, essays, and lectures. By date, including interviews | ||||
| .xA6-Z** | Individual biography, interviews and criticism. By main entry, including criticism of selected works, autobiography, quotations, letters, speeches, interviews, etc. | ||||
** Main entries of biography/criticism
which begin with A (only in biography classes). Biography
and criticism on the biography table are limited to the range
.xA6-A. If the main entry of a biographical or critical work
begins with A and the work is classed in a biography class, do
not cutter lower than A6. The suggested cutters for entries
beginning with A are:
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citation--Chan, Lois Mai. A guide to the Library of Congress classification. 5th ed. Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1999. p. 522 |
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Shelflist Conventions
