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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.

    

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   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 Cutters	If 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.