Special Types of Material

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Special Types of Material

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Editions

• If a subsequent edition has the same author,
  title, class number, assign the same Cutter
  number as the previous editions. A date is used
  to distinguish between the earlier and later
  editions.
• PN1995 .K23 1970Going steady / Pauline Kael. --
  1st ed. -- Boston Little, Brown, 1970.
• PN1995 .K23 1994Going steady film writing,
  1968-1969 / Pauline Kael. New York M.
  Boyars, 1994.

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Editions (variation in title)

• If the title changes on the subsequent edition,
  but the author and class number are the same,
  assign the same Cutter number as the previous
  edition.
• PE1408 .F478The way to write / by Rudolf
  Flesch. New York Harper, 1947.
• PE1408 .F478 1949A new guide to better writing
  / by Rudolf Flesch A.H. Lass. New York
  Harper Row, 1949.
• PE1408 .F478 1996The classic guide to better
  writing / by Rudolf Flesch and A.H. Lass.
  50th anniversary ed. -- New York
  HarperPerennial, c1996.Rev. ed. of A new guide
  to better writing, which was originally published
  as The way to write.

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Editions (pre/post AACR2)

• If the class number does not change, but the
  authorship changes, or if the work would be
  entered under title and the title changes, Cutter
  to the new main entry if the earlier edition was
  cataloged prior to AACR2.

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Editions (pre/post AACR2 example)

• Z696.U4 I5 1971Immroth, John Phillip.A guide to
  the Library of Congress classification. 1971.
• Z696.U4 C47 1999Chan, Lois Mai.A guide to the
  Library of Congress classification / by Lois Mai
  Chan. 5th ed. -- 1999.

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Editions (post AACR2)

• RC280.B6 D33 1986Dahlin, David C. (David Carl),
  1917-Bone tumors general aspects and data on
  8,542 cases / by David C. Dahlin and Krishnan K.
  Unni. 4th ed. c1986.
• RC280.B6 D33 1996Unni, K. Krishnan,
  1941-Dahlins bone tumors general aspects and
  data on 11,087 cases / K. Krishnan Unni. 5th
  ed. -- c1996.

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Editions (class number change)

• If a subsequent edition should be assigned a
  different class number, the editions are not kept
  together.
• Z694.M35 Handbook for AACR2 explaining and
  illustrating Anglo-American cataloguing rules,
  second edition / by Margaret F. Maxwell. Chicago
  American Library Association, 1980.
• Z694.15.A56 M39 1989Handbook for AACR2
  explaining and illustrating the Anglo-American
  cataloguing rules / by Margaret Maxwell with a
  new chapter by Judith A. Carter. 1988 rev.
  Chicago American Library Association, 1989.

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Work Letters

• Editions published in the same year are usually
  differentiated by work letters, b-y
• When the main entry is a corporate name, work
  letters are used to distinguish different works
  published in the same year

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Work Letters Example

• DA591.A45 D5326 2000Jephson, P. D.Shadows of a
  princess Diana, Princess of Wales, 1987-1996
  an intimate account by her private secretary /
  P.D. Jephson. -- London HarperCollins,
  2000.vii, 392 p., 8 p. of plates
• 050 00 a DA591.A45 b D5326 2000bJephson, P.
  D.Shadows of a princess Diana, Princess of
  Wales, 1987-1996 an intimate account by her
  private secretary / P.D. Jephson. --1st ed. --
  New York HarperCollins Publishers, c2000. 456
  p. ill.

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Volume Numbers

• Volume numbers are used to differentiate call
  numbers for analytics of series.
• For serial monographic series, no date is
  usedHT101 .R393 no. 181HT101 .R393 no. 185
• For multipart item series, the initial date of
  the series precedes the volume numberPN4855
  .H57 1994 no. 2PN4855 .H57 1994 no. 3

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Translation Numbers

• Translation number practice is described in
  SCMShelflisting G 150
• Translation numbers are used to differentiate a
  translation from the original work
• Translation numbers are added to the Cutter
  number for the work and use the range 12-18

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Translation Number Table
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Translation Numbers Example

• Original
• B3258.H323 P55 1985Habermas, Jürgen.Der
  philosophische Diskurs der Moderne
• Translation into English
• B3258.H323 P5513 1987Habermas, Jürgen.
  Philosophische Diskurs der Moderne.
  EnglishThe philosophical discourse of modernity
  

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Translation Number Is Not Used--

• If there is no uniform title (plus language) or
  the main entry is not a personal author or a
  title.
• If the main entry is corporate or a conference,
  or for autobiographies and correspondence

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No Translation Number (Examples)

• No uniform title
• TA455.C3 C368 2002Carbon molecules and
  materials / edited by Ralph Setton, Patrick
  Bernier, Serge Lefrant translated from the
  French by Ralph Setton.
• BUT
• DS135.N5 A53713 2004Herinnering aan Joods
  Amsterdam. English.Remembering Jewish Amsterdam
  / compiled by Philo Bregstein Salvador
  Bloemgarten Dutch textual composition by
  Johanna Katherina Barends translated from the
  Dutch by Wanda Boeke.

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Translation Number Is Not Used--

• If the schedule has the caption By language, A-Z
  instead, construct the Cutter number based on the
  language itself, e.g. E5 or E6 for English
• PQ1170.A5-Z. French literatureCollections of
  French literaturePoetryTranslations of of
  French poetry into foreign languagesBy language,
  A-Z.
• PQ1170.E6 C45 1998Classic French love poems /
  edited by Lisa Neal illustrations by Maurice
  Leloir.

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Biography Numbers (F 275)

• Class a biographical work, individual or
  collective, with the topic with which the
  biographee is most closely identified
• Special biography numbers are customarily found
  in the general materials area of a topic whose
  class numbers have been expanded to any extent
• Use of these numbers is not limited to purely
  biographical (or autobiographical) works
• A work whose purpose is to relate an individual
  or group of individuals to a topic may also be
  classed in a biography number

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Biography Number Examples

• TR140 A-Z. PhotographyBiographyIndividual A-Z
• TR140.A3 A79 1996Alinder, Mary Street, 1946-
  Ansel Adams a biography / Mary Street Alinder.
• TR140.A3 A82 1993Ansel Adams, new light
  essays on his legacy and legend / Robert Dawson
  ... et al..

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Biography Numbers (F 275)

• Class in CT only works on individuals not
  identified with a specific topic
• CT275.A-Z. BiographyNational BiographyBy region
  or countryAmericaNorth AmericaUnited
  StatesIndividual persons, A-Z.
• CT275.H59926 M35 2004Mair, George, 1929-Paris
  Hilton the naked truth

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Biography Numbers (F 275)

• Collective biography
• A work that discusses the lives and/or
  contributions of two or more individuals, if a
  discrete section in the work is devoted to each
  individual
• GV1032.A1. Recreation. LeisureSportsMotorsports
  Automobile racingBiography. CollectiveGV1032.A1
  C35 2003Cain, Woody.Legends of NASCAR defying
  time-- defining greatness

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Collective (or Individual?) Examples

• E467. United States--The Civil War, 1861-1865--
  BiographyCollective (Union and Confederate)E467
  .F557 2005Flood, Charles Bracelen.Grant and
  Sherman the friendship that won the Civil War
• PN2287. A-Z. DramaDramatic representation. The
  theaterSpecial regions or countriesNorth
  AmericaUnited StatesBiographyIndividual,
  A-Z.PN2287.M52 M3Marx, Arthur, 1921-Everybody
  loves somebody sometime (especially himself)
  the story of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

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Biography Numbers (F 275)

• Individual biography
• A continuous narrative that discusses the life of
  a single individual or the contributions of a
  single individual to a particular topic
• An autobiography

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Individual Biography Examples

• E185.97.A-Z. United States. Elements in the
  populationAfrican AmericansBiography.
  GenealogyIndividual, A-Z.
• E185.97.D73 L48 1993Lewis, David L.,
  1936-W.E.B. DuBois / David Levering Lewis.
• N6853.A-Z. Visual artsHistorySpecial regions or
  countriesEuropeFranceSpecial artists, A-Z.
• N6853.M33 S678 2005Spurling, Hilary.Matisse the
  master a life of Henri Matisse, the conquest of
  colour, 1909-1954 / Hilary Spurling.

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Persons with multi-faceted careers

• Class according to topical emphasis of the work
• PN2287.A-Z. DramaDramatic Representation. The
  theaterSpecial regions or countriesAmericaNorth
  AmericaUnited StatesBiographyIndividual, A-Z.
• PN2287.R25 V38 1994Vaughn, Stephen, 1947-Ronald
  Reagan in Hollywood movies and politics

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Persons with multi-faceted careers

• If several careers are discussed, class with the
  topic with which the biographee is most closely
  associated
• E877. United StatesLater twentieth-century,
  1961-2000Reagans administrations,
  1981-1989Biography of Ronald Reagan,
  1911General works
• E877 .B68 1998Bosch, Adriana.Reagan an
  American story

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Form Numbers

• Form Numbers resemble Cutter numbers but do not
  map to names or titles or topics.
• Commonly found in auxiliary tables in the
  schedules and also in general tables in
  SCMShelflisting

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Cutter and Form Number Combinations Biography

• SCM Shelflisting G 320 Biography Table

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Example BX4705 (Schedule)
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Example BX4705 (Application)

• BX4705.N5 A3 2005 Newman, John
  Henry, 1801-1890.Apologia pro vita sua / John
  Henry Newman.
• BX4705.N5 A4 1961 Newman, John
  Henry, 1801-1890.Letters and diaries
• BX4705.N5 A74 1995 Achten, Rik,
  1958-First principles and our way to faith a
  fundamental-theological study of John Henry
  Newmans notion of first principles / Ric Achten.

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Books about Books 1st Cutter

• Criticism/commentary on the first Cutter number.
  Assign the same call number to the
  criticism/commentary that was assigned to the
  original text in the original language, and if
  the call number for the original text has a
  single cutter, add the digit 3 to the cutter, and
  then add a second cutter for the main entry.

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Example

• Original text
• B2948.D46Derrida, Jacques.Glas / Jacques
  Derrida.
• Criticism/Commentary
• B2948.D463 H44 1998Hegel after Derrida / edited
  by Stuart Barnett.SUBJECT Derrida, Jacques. Glas.

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Books about Books 2nd Cutter

• Criticism/commentary on the second cutter number.
  Assign the same call number to the
  criticism/commentary that was assigned to the
  original text in the original language and, if
  the call number for the original text already has
  2 cutters, add the digit 3 to the last cutter,
  and then add a digit or digits to represent the
  main entry.

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Example

• Original text
• B3279.H49 D48 1987 Derrida, Jacques.De lesprit
  Heidegger et la question / Jacques Derrida.
• Criticism/Commentary
• B3279.H49 D4836 1993 Of Derrida, Heidegger, and
  spirit / edited by David Wood. SUBJECT Derrida,
  Jacques. De l'esprit.

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Corporate Main Entry (G 220)

• A corporate body is an organization or group of
  persons that is identified by a particular name,
  and that acts, or may act, as an entity. Typical
  examples of corporate bodies are associations,
  government agencies, religious bodies, local
  churches, and conferences
• For materials entered under a corporate body
  heading, Cutter for the name of the corporate
  body. For monographic items, add the imprint date
  to the call number to make each call number
  unique.
• Do not apply G 220 to materials in K class

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Corporate Main Entry Example
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Conferences (F 240)

• Use congress numbers to class
• Collected papers delivered or published or one or
  more named or unnamed congresses, symposia,
  conferences,meetings, etc.
• Condensations of these papers
• Reports of proceedings and discussions, program
  statements, lists of delegates, etc.
• Combinations of the above

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Conferences (Established Number)

• HC13. Economic history and conditionsCongresses
• HC13 .I48 1984Indiana University International
  Business Forum (1984)Managing amidst tensions
  and conflicts in a global economy background
  papers for the Indiana University International
  Business Forum

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Conferences (F 240)

• If a number has been established, class both
  monographic and serial congresses in that number
• Do not class congresses in the number for
  periodicals unless congresses are explicitly
  included in the caption for that number (as in
  class Q)

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Conferences (F 240)

• If no number has been established for congresses,
  class congresses in the General Works number, or
  in the periodical number if the congress is
  cataloged as a serial
• Class each monographic congress according to its
  subject matter

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Conferences (General works)

• LB2331.63. Theory and practice of
  educationHigher educationSpecial aspects of
  higher educationEvaluation and ranking of
  universities and collegesBy region or
  countryUnited StatesGeneral works
• LB2331.63 .S95 1978Summer Conference on
  Accreditation (1978 California State
  Polytechnic Association, Pomona)Evaluating
  educational quality a conference summary

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Conference Dates

• Significant exception to the use of the imprint
  date for monograph call numbers conference main
  entry (use the date of the conference)
• PE1068.G5 B75 2001British Association of
  Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes.
  Conference (2001 University of
  Strathclyde)Directions for the future -- Bern
  New York Peter Lang, 2004.

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Serials (F 210)

• Like conferences, there will usually be a class
  number or group of numbers at the beginning of
  major topics in the schedules for serials
• Caption examplesPeriodicals. Societies.
  SerialsPeriodicalsPeriodicals, etc.Periodicals
  and societiesPeriodicals, societies, congresses,
  and serial collections

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Serials (F 210)

• Unless there are other specific provisions in the
  schedule, class all serial publications,
  including periodicals, numbered monographic
  series, and topical serial society publications
  on the number at the beginning of the topic

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Serial examples

• N1.A12-Z. Visual artsPeriodicalsAmerican and
  English
• N1 .T583Todays art and graphics.SUBJECT
  Art--Periodicals.
• N6480. Visual artsHistoryModern artBy
  century19th and 20th centuries20th
  centuryPeriodicals.
• N6480 .C65Contemporanea.SUBJECT Art,
  Modern--20th century--Periodicals.

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Serials (G 220, 11.)

• As with monographs, when a corporate body is the
  main entry and the same class number is used, the
  Cutter number for the main entry is not adjusted
  to differentiate works
• For serials, a work letter should be used to
  differentiate works

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Serial Example