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From zero to puberty and other life stories : tales, confessions, and musings of a baby boomer / T.J. Donnelly. (OCLC #930875033)

I quickly assigned a subject heading to this title:

650 _0 ǂa Baby boom generation ǂv Biography.

but struggled to find a good call number. Often classes of people have a subclass; for example:

  • QD – Chemistry
  • QD21 – Biography of chemists (collective)
  • QD22 – Biography of chemists (individual)

There are also ranges for biographies of people associated with various locations (for example, F450 for Kentucky) but this author has lived in at least Kentucky, Michigan, Colorado, and Nevada.

I also assigned a form subdivision for –Humor to bring out that aspect

650 _0 ǂa Baby boom generation ǂv Humor.

which led me to a better call number, PN6231.B22 (Wit and humor, Special topics A-Z, Baby boom generation) which in LC’s catalog contained many similar books. I cuttered by author to get:

    090 __ ǂa PN6231.B22 ǂb F76 2015
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Do I look skinny in this house? : how to feel great in your home using design psychology / Kelli Ellis. (OCLC #871333825)

Last week I attended the NOTSL meeting Don’t Be Afraid of the Big, Bad BIBFRAME (Or Linked Data!).

While looking at the BIBFRAME editor, we discussed the decision to consider the Library of Congress Call Number to be associated with the Instance, but the Dewey Decimal Classification Number to be associated with the Work. I had not made that distinction before, that an LC call number was intended to be a unique shelving location, as in:

050 _4 ǂa NK2113 ǂb .E45 2014

where the Dewey number recorded is typically a non-unique subject classification of the work, as in:

082 04 ǂa 747 ǂ2 23

What do you think?

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Oboronni zamky zakhidnoho Podilli︠a︡ XIV – XVII st. : (istorychno-arkheolohichni narysy) / I︠U︡khym Sit︠s︡insʹkyĭ. (OCLC #32649823)

This title is about castles and fortifications in a city in Ukraine:

650 _0 ǂa Fortification ǂz Ukraine ǂz Podillia.
650 _0 ǂa Castles ǂz Ukraine ǂz Podillia.

The LC classification NA1455.A-Z is for Architecture of special countries—Europe with NA1455.U47 specifically being for Ukraine. This class number is subarranged using Table N15, which includes the somewhat cryptic:

.x2A-x2Z   Local, A-Z

This means that to specify a narrower location than Ukraine, append 2 to Ukraine’s cutter, and add a second cutter for that location (Podilla):

050 _4 ǂa NA1455.U472 ǂb P6357 1994

As a local practice, we always use the publication year in monograph call numbers when possible.

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scoutfinches:

the Library of Congress system mostly makes sense except when this happens

LC doesn’t care about book series so it basically just puts them in alphabetical order by title. everything that author has written has the same cutter number (in Snicket’s case, .S6795) and then the first couple of letters of the book’s title come next. so EVERYTHING by that author is all together, but completely out of sequential order. and I hate it.

Yuck! Not helpful to a patron browsing the shelf.

You could class the series together (and indicate that decision in the series authority record) and then give each title your chosen classification plus an enumeration like “v.1″ or “no.2″ or whatever is appropriate.

I’ve also been known to fudge cutter numbers when I want books to sit a certain way on the shelf; that’s easiest to do when you get the whole series at once.

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Freundesbriefe 1922-1955 / Ernst Robert Curtius/Max Rychner ; in Zusammenarbeit mit Claudia Mertz-Rychner herausgegeben und kommentiert von Frank-Rutger Hausmann. (OCLC #908681242)

Biographies and memoirs of individuals in philology are classed under PC34 which is cuttered .A-Z by the name of the individual. So biographies of Ernst Robert Curtis would be classed under:

PC34.C85

For more specific types of biographies, consult the Biography Table for further subdivision. For letters and correspondence, subdivide with A4:

PC34.C85 A4 2015
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Girl talk : boys, bullies and body image / Carol Langlois. (OCLC #898168325)

Due to a recently added workflow, I got to assign a Dewey number today, which I’d not done in about four years! The structure of this one is:

  • 305 – Groups of people
  • 305.235 – Young people twelve to twenty
  • 305.2352 – Females

In MARC, I encoded this as:

082 04 ǂa 305.235/2 ǂ2 23

In our collection, we’re using the call number:

J305.235 LAN
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Frontiers of chemistry : plenary and keynote lectures presented at the 28th IUPAC Congress, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 16-22 August 1981 / edited by Keith J. Laidler ; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in conjunction with the Chemical Institute of Canada. (OCLC #8114998)

When classifying conference proceedings in Library of Congress Classification, use the year that the conference occurred, not the year when the volume was published (often the following year).

This volume was published in 1982, but covers a conference from 1981, so the call number is:

QD1 .F76 1981
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The Zend-Avesta / translated by James Darmesteter. (OCLC #679090)

Some works are specifically mentioned in the LC schedule. For example Avesta (or Zend-Avesta) starts at BL1515, under which are classed Original texts by date. Translations are classed under BL1515.2.A-Z cuttered by languages A-Z.

Following this, Library of Congress assigned a call number to this English translation:

BL1515.2 .E53 1880

using .E5 for English, followed with a ‘3’ to denote the extensive commentary. I’m relabeling our copy to use this call number.

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The story of the unknown warrior : 11 November 1920 / Michael Gavaghan. (OCLC #908110563)

The LC class number D680.A-Z is for WWI celebrations, memorials, and monuments in regions or countries other than the United States (with the cutter starting with A-Z specifying that region or country).

This cutter is taken from a predefined list, the Regions and Countries table from the Subject Cataloging Manual on Shelflisting (G 300).

The cutter for Great Britain is .G7, so this book gets the call number:

D680.G7 G39 2003
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Physical chemistry of electrolyte solutions : modern aspects / J.M.G. Barthel, H. Krienk, W. Kunze ; edited by H. Baumgärtel, E.U. Franck, W. Grünbein ; on behalf of Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie. (OCLC #39276859)

Similar to classifying a resource with a call number, you can specify a subject category using a code from one of many pre-defined lists.

That code is recorded in MARC 072 ǂa:

072 _7 ǂa QD ǂ2 lcco

If the category list is anything other than NAL (U.S. National Agricultural Library/AGRICOLA Subject Category Codes, which receive second indicator 0), the field has second indicator 7 and the category list is specified in ǂ7. This record has the code from LC classification outline, so it’s unsurprising that the code is also the first part of the LC call number:

050 00 ǂa QD561 ǂb .B29 1998