Most call numbers have four parts : • General / Broad Subject • Narrower Topic • Cutter Number (represents author, corporation, or title) • Year of Publication
	Title: Price control under fair trade legislation Author: Ewald T. Grether HF Commerce 5415 Business → Marketing → General works .G67 Cutter number for Grether 1939 Year of publication
	But there are other forms that call numbers can take. For example:
	Title: More West Highland tales Author: John Francis Campbell PB Modern languages. Celtic languages 1645 Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic, Erse) → Literature → Folk literature .C26 Cutter number for Campbell v.1 & v.2 Volume 1 and Volume 2 For more examples of this type of call number, go here.
	Title: Louisbourg portraits : life in an eighteenth-century garrison town Author: Christopher Moore F History : America  (numbers 1001-1145.2) - British America (including Canada) 1039 Nova Scotia. Acadia .5 Cities, towns, etc., A-Z .L8 Louisbourg M66 Cutter number for Moore 1982 Year of publication
	Title: The sun also rises Author: Ernest Hemingway PS American literature 3515 Individual authors → 1900-1960 → H .E37 Author's cutter number, using second letter (hEmingway) S8 Title (sun - the, a, an ignored) 1954 Year of publication
	Title: Almanac of the 50 states REF Library collections →  Reference HA Statistics 203 Statistical data → By region or country → America → United States → Serials .A5 Title 1996 Year of publication For a list of more library collection prefixes, go here.

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