Research & Innovation Strategies: Classification

Call number dates, monographic works

See Classification and Shelflisting Manual - Shelflisting/General/G140 Dates

Adding the publication date to call numbers of all monographic works has been an LC practice since April 1982. Records created prior to that date may have 050 00 or 050_0 call numbers without dates. Do not add dates to call numbers with an 050 call number that has a 2nd indicator "0." Do add a date to any 050 with 2nd indicator "4" or to an 090 call number that does not have one.

Special situations

• Conferences: Use the date of the conference, not the date of publication in the call number. (We no longer adjust call numbers to match previous conferences.)
• Editions: If more than one edition of a work is published in the same year, and both items have the same call number, then add letter "b" to the date in the call number. For further editions in the same year, add "c" etc.
• Supplements: Use the date of the main work in the call number, not the date of publication of the supplement. Add "Suppl." locally to the call number in the item record. (Do not use any designation in the call number on the bibliographic record.)
• Facsimile of the original: Use the date of the original work with letter "a" added to it. Example: 1887a. If there is another facsimile edition, add "aa", "ab", etc.
• Advance copyright and publishing dates:
  • For items lacking a publication date, if the copyright date is for the year following the year in which the publication is received, supply a date of publication that corresponds to the copyright date. (See LC-PCC PS for 2.8.6.6. RDA) Example (if the current year is 2019):
    • Book has no publication date and has ©2020.

264_1 ... $c [2020]

264_4 $c ©2020

Call number: use 2020

For translations and texts in parallel languages, see the Classification and Shelflisting Manual: G150 Translations/Texts in Parallel Languages.

Local Cutter numbers for translations

See also in SharePoint: Local Cutter numbers for translations.

TRANSLATIONS

The following document combines authorized cutter numbers (in bold text) from the G150 Table of the Classification and Shelflisting Manual and locally devised cutter numbers for usage when cataloging a work which has been translated from its original language into another language (i.e., a Hungarian translation of William Faulkner’s As I lay dying).

To apply these translation cutter numbers, simply add them to the cutter number used in the original work.

Example:

050 _4   PS3511.A86 $b A851546 1971

100 1      Faulkner, William, $d 1897-1962, $e author.

240 10   As I lay dying. $l Hungarian

245 10   Míg fekszem kiterítve / $c William Faulkner ; fordította, Geher István ; illusztrálta, Gyulai Liviusz.

260         [Budapest, Hungary] : $b Magyar Helikon, $c 1971.

In looking at the 050 here, PS3511.A86 is the literary class number for William Faulkner. In the subfield $b, A85 is the cutter number of the original work, As I lay dying, written in English but since this is a Hungarian translation, we add “1546” to that cutter number resulting in the final cutter number “A851546”.

NOTE: Please use the numbers below when assigning translation cutters for copy and original cataloging. If you find an appropriate copy catalog record but the translation cutter does not conform to these numbers, please assign them locally in FOLIO.

English Language Literature

Link to classification procedures for contemporary literature by authors who have written works in English, as well as works about such authors. Works in these call number ranges include novels, poetry, and drama as well as materials about authors: letters, journals, biographies, autobiographies, cirticism, and other general works.