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Basic data on depressive symptomatology, United States, 1974-75 / [Rona Beth Sayetta and David P. Johnson]. (OCLC #5833792)

To search for a Sudoc number in OCLC (like “HE 20.6209:11/216”), use the gn: index, and remove all punctuation and spacing from the number:

gn: HE20620911216

This search does return the title we’re looking for:

Vital and health statistics. Series 11, no. 216
HE 20.6209:11/216

but also this one, whose Sudoc number compresses to the same string:

NCHS CD-ROM. Series 21, no. 6.
HE 20.6209/11:21/6

This is still a useful search, to quickly get you to government document records (if they exist), but since that compression to the search string is lossy, you must confirm that any record you find this way is the correct one.

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We the people : the American people and their government / [text, Division of Political History]. (OCLC #1288911)

In a SuDoc classification number, the cutter for the title is based on the first significant word in the title that denotes the subject of the resource, also excluding “catch phrases”. For this resource, “We the people” is skipped, and the cutter is based on the word American:

SI 1.2:Am 1/2

More about cuttering in SuDoc can be found in the GPO Classification Manual.

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Behavior and neurology of lizards : an interdisciplinary colloquium / edited by Neil Greenberg and Paul D. MacLean. (OCLC #4571831)

In a SuDoc classification number, the cutter for the title is based on the first significant word in the title that denotes the subject of the resource. This excludes words common to government documents (“Symposium”, “Report”), to the particular agency (“Forest”, “Wood” for the Forest Service).

This resource was cuttered on the word Lizards even though it’s the fifth word in the title.

086 0_ ǂa HE 20.8102:L 76

More about cuttering in SuDoc can be found in the GPO Classification Manual.

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Disarmament and security; a collection of documents, 1919-55. (OCLC #3122480)

A correctly formatted SuDoc number as it appears in a bibliographic record may differ slightly from the way it is written on the actual piece. The SuDoc number for this piece (as verified in the Monthly Catalog) is:

Y 4.F 76/2:D 63/2/919-55

Numbers in the label that are in superscripts appear after slashes in the formatted number. Also, it is common for a year in the 1900s to be actually written out on the piece, but only have the last three digits in the SuDoc number, such as this SuDoc number for a 1975 document:

Y 4.F 76/2:L 52/975

This particular piece has a date range on the label 1919-55 (meaning 1919–1955, for fans of ISO 8601) which has been encoded in its SuDoc number as /919-55.

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Tax reform act of 1969, H.R. 13270 : part A–testimony to be received Tuesday, September 16, 1969; part B–additional statements (topics: capital gains, restricted stock, lump-sum distributions under pension and profit-sharing plans) / Committee on Finance, United States Senate. (OCLC #10908435) and others.

While analyzing this set of testimonies about the Tax Reform Act of 1969, I refined my search for each volume by adding the date that the testimony was to be received, as it is part of each title’s volume. One volume could not be retrieved this way because its date was entered as “September l6” (with a lowercase L instead of a one). I actually found this volume by doing a SuDoc number search in Connexion:

gn: Y4F49T1926Sept16

(all spaces and punctuation are removed in this index!)

In a similar error, several volumes of this set have incorrect SuDoc numbers in the monthly catalog:

Y 4.F 49:T 19/26/0ct.3

(zero instead of capital O!)

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The Health consequences of smoking : a Public Health Service review. (OCLC #2241027)

This serial volume came to my attention because our government documents collection copy (with SuDoc stem HE 20.7016:) had been shelved with the HEs in our main LC-classed collection. Oops!

Our government documents librarian requested that the volume’s individual title “Chronic obstructive lung disease” be added to the serial record along with the several other individual titles already in there (all in 246s for some reason?) because a search for this title in our opac only brought up records for a 10-page summary of it, not for the full report (546 pages).

Though it is unusual to add analytical titles for serial records, we made an exception to provide more access, and put them in in 740s.