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Date of next review: August 2016
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Scope
Classifications shelved in Olin and Uris
Classifications located in Annex
Kroch
ILR
Engineering Call Number Distribution
Materials out of scope
Obsolete and locally invented class numbers
Call numbers: General Considerations
Cuttering
General considerations
RMC exception
Subarrangement by main entry
Established Cutters or Cutters limited by LC convention
Topical Cutters in the narrow sense
Cutters specified in the classification schedules but not established
Topical/geographical Cutters as part of the classification
Creating Cutters when LC Cutter Table cannot be used
Double and complex Cuttering: Biography and criticism
Creators of literary, artistic and musical works
Individual artists
Ancient Greek and Latin authors
Literary works: Cuttering for words beginning with "A" when cuttering begins at "A6"
Individual biography
Biography and criticism of literary authors, Z5-999
Dates in Call Numbers
Multivolume works
Congressional hearings
Continuing resources
Series
Series classed together and series classed separately
Series classed together vs. multivolume monographs
Volume Enumeration
Multivolume monographs
Series classed together
Letter extensions in existing call numbers
Oversize Notation
General rule
Exceptions
Adding the oversize symbol
Filing Shelflist Temps & Using CLAMSS
Appendix
Cutter Sanborn Cutters and LTS Olin Historical Practices
When to use pre-October 1997 practice for cuttering
Using pre-existing Cutter Sanborn cutters on new items
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Scope
- Olin and Uris Library: A-P classification shelved in Olin ; Q-Z shelved in Uris Library.
- Obsolete and locally invented class numbers
As a general rule, do not use obsolete or locally invented class numbers. For later editions of works originally classified at these numbers, use the call number of the earlier edition OR assign a new, valid call number, whichever is easiest. If all works by an author previously processed at Cornell are in the cancelled ranges of PR for Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India or Africa, you have the option of continuing to use that classification.
Historically, LTS Olin catalogers constructed skeletal call numbers consisting of classification letters for the areas of law not yet developed by LC and added a cutter for the main entry. These call numbers should now be used only for later editions of works originally classified at the skeleton K numbers.
See Call Number Examples for the format of a skeletal call number.
- Materials out of scope
Do not use this procedure to classify and shelflist the following types of materials:
Category Comments Accession numbers Some types of materials (e.g. microforms, videorecordings, and sound recordings) are assigned "accession type" numbers at certain locations. When assigning accession numbers, catalogers should use the automated media shelflisting system, CLAMSS. See also Procedure 24, Computer Disk Processing, Procedure 33, Processing Videorecordings, Procedure 17, Sound Recordings Processing and Procedure 28a, Microform Processing for details. Archival materials RMC and Kheel Center use local classification systems. Congressional hearings See Exception in LTS Procedure #4 Cornell theses See Procedure 16, Theses Processing Materials eligible for fast processing or fast cuttering Refer to the Fastcat and Non-Fastcat Copy Cataloging procedures as appropriate. Selected materials in GV1580-GV1799.4 (Dance), M (Music) Call numbers in the range GV1580-GV1799.4 should not be added to the Olin collection, but rather should be cataloged for the Music Library. Also for Music Library, see exception for certain call number ranges.
Books classed in GV and M/ML in vernacular Asian languages (e.g. Tagalog, Indonesian, Chinese) should be cataloged for Kroch Asia.
All materials in the scores format are sent to Music Library regardless of the language of the text.
- Classifications located in Annexa. All books (vernacular and translations) in the following South Asian literature classifications (Non-book formats remain in Kroch)
Gujarati literature PK1859 Kanarese literature PL4659 Konkani literature PK2238.9 Malayalam literature PL4718.9 Marathi literature PK2418 Panjabi literature PK2659 Telugu literature PL4780.9
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- When to use pre-October 1997 practice for cuttering
Before October 1997, most Cutters were created using the Cutter-Sanborn Table rather than the LC Cutter Table, and some CUL practices involving editions, translations, criticism and the Preferred Shelflist Order for Individual Authors differed from LC practice. For more information, consult the now defunct Procedure #11, Shelflisting: general cataloging and classification procedures, rev. March 1994 (paper copy available in the Catalog Reference Collection).
Use judgment and the guidelines in this section when deciding whether to continue using Cutters and patterns established in the shelflist before October 1997 to assign call numbers to new items.
A call number with non-standard elements, such as Cutter-Sanborn Cutters, should not be used in the 050: 4: field when the record is submitted through BIBCO.
Using pre-existing Cutter-Sanborn Cutters on new items
Judgment Calls
Category Comments Literary author, artist and musician Cutters If a Cutter-Sanborn Cutter for a literary author, artist or musician has been used in the local shelflist, you have the option of continuing to class works at the Cutter- Sanborn Cutter, even if the LC Cutter has also been used in the local shelflist. This includes cases where CUL has classified the individual at a different country or time period from the one chosen by LC (e.g. CUL classes Picasso with Spanish artists and LC classes him with French artists).
-Language Cutters
-Corporate body main entry CuttersIf a Cutter-Sanborn Cutter of one of these types appears in the local shelflist, and the LC Cutter is not known (i.e. it does not appear in the classification schedule or in the 050 field of an LC record in the CUL online catalog), you have the option of continuing to class works at the Cutter-Sanborn Cutter rather than creating a new Cutter using the LC Cutter Table. Editions Class editions of a work at an existing Cutter-Sanborn call number for the work if the existence of the other edition in the shelflist is known, and if there are no editions in the shelflist classed at the number assigned by LC. Editions and translations classed at the same Cutter If both translations and editions of an individual work have been classed at the same Cutter, you have the option of classing additional translations at that Cutter. Criticism and commentaries of individual works do not use "3" in Cutter You have the option of classing additional criticism and commentaries on the work to fit the existing pattern. Added Cutters for title where LC would use successive Cutters (using Preferred Shelflist Order for Individual Authors) You have the option of using the Cutter- Sanborn Cutter for the author to assign call numbers to additional works at the same class number, if the LC Cutter for the author has not yet been used in the local shelflist. If the author Cutter is Cutter-Sanborn, use added Cutters for title rather than successive Cutters. Works by literary authors in more than one language but classed in one place For literary authors writing in more than one language, you have the option of classing editions and criticism of specific works at the existing Cutter for the work, even if it is classed with a language other than the one in which it is written (e.g. Nabokov's Lolita, classed in PG3476 with Russian literature, rather than PS3527 with English literature). Cutter too long If cutters created using the LC scheme are too long to fit on a single line of spine label tape (10 spaces including an initial period), you may use a second cutter for title or leave off translation/criticism extensions to get the cutter to fit.
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