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Most
call numbers have four parts :
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General / Broad Subject
• Narrower Topic
• Cutter Number (represents
author, corporation, or title)
• Year of
Publication
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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
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But there are other forms
that
call numbers can take. For example:
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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
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Volume 1 and Volume
2
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For more examples of this type of call number, go here.
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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
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.5
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Cities, towns,
etc., A-Z |
.L8
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Louisbourg |
M66
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Cutter number for
Moore |
1982
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Year of publication
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Title: The sun also
rises
Author: Ernest Hemingway
PS |
American literature
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3515 |
Individual authors
→
1900-1960 → H |
.E37 |
Author's cutter
number,
using second letter (hEmingway)
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S8
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Title (sun - the,
a, an
ignored) |
1954
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Year of publication
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Title:
Almanac of the 50 states
REF |
Library collections
→
Reference
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HA |
Statistics |
203 |
Statistical data →
By
region or country → America → United States → Serials |
.A5 |
Title |
1996
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Year of publication
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For a list of more library collection prefixes, go here.
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