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CvSU Library Manual of Operations

m. Tracing

A record on the P-slip and on the main
entry of a particular book. The record and the
book is written only in the main entry and shelf
list card.

Section 4. Assigning Call Number

The call number is composed of the classification
number and book number for a particular library material,
i.e. the title of the book written by Leslie S. Kaplan is
Educational foundations, copyrighted in 2015, the
classification number of this title is, LB1025.3 (based on the
Library of Congress Classification Scheme), its book number
is K14 to illustrate, these numbers will look like Figure 10.

LB1025.3 (1)
K14 (2)
2015 (3)

Figure 10. Example of Call Number

Legend:
1 = Classification or Class Number
2 = Book Number
3 = Year (Copyright or Publication Year)

Book number represents the letter of the author’s
surname or the first letter of the title of the book (if it begins
with an article, the first three letters of the word after the
article) and the corresponding figure of the letter as found in
the Cutter Two Figure Author Table, the tool being used at
LDML.

The purpose of the Cutter Author Table is to provide
the shortest possible combination of letters and figures to be
used for the book number. There are many vowels and
consonants, except S; two letters are used for vowels and S;
three letters are used for names beginning with Sch
combinations.

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