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schedules, with their ad ditions and changes, titled SUPERLCCS on
CD-ROM. Another elec tronic source for class sched ules, a CD-ROM
ti tled Clas si fi ca tion Plus, in cludes Library of Con gress Sub ject Head -
ings produced by the Library of Con gress and is avail able as an an nual
subscription with quar terly up dates. Not all the sched ules can be found
on CD-ROM, al though the latest edi tion, Is sue 3, 1999, does in clude
twenty-seven clas si fi ca tion sched ules. In for ma tion on all kinds of Li-
brary of Con gress pub lications, in cluding the class sched ules for both
print and electronic ver sions, can be found on the library’s Web site
<lcweb.loc.gov>. The Li brary of Con gress Clas si fi ca tion Sched ules
and their use is dis cussed in greater de tail in Chap ter 6 of this text.

C. A. CUTTER’S THREE-FIGURE AUTHOR TABLE

To cre ate a unique call num ber for easy iden tification, a Cut ter
number, also called a book num ber, must be added to the Dewey Dec -
i mal Clas si fi ca tion num ber. Usually called an au thor num ber, the
Cutter num ber fa cilitates a log ical or dering on the shelves. The num -
ber is de rived from the C. A. Cut ter’s Three-Fig ure Au thor Ta ble, or
from another edition ti tled Cut ter-Sanborn Three-Fig ure Au thor Ta-
ble, or from some other ab breviated ver sions. Li braries us ing the Li-
brary of Con gress Clas si fi ca tion num ber em ploy a sim pli fied ta ble,
the “LC Book Num ber.” Be sides the printed version, Cut ter num bers
can be found on South ern Il linois Uni versity Li brary’s Web site
<www.lib.siu.edu/swen/cutter.htm>. Au thor ta bles and their uses are
discussed fully in Chap ter 6 of this text.
Now that you are fa miliar with these cataloging ref erence tools, you
are ready to perform the great act of cat aloging! Let us take it one step
at a time.

REVIEW QUESTIONS

1. What are the two ways of cataloging?
2. What are the four steps of cataloging?
3. What are the necessary cataloging tools for a library using the
Library of Congress Classification system?
4. What are the necessary cataloging tools for a library using the
Dewey Decimal Classification system?