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Library Organization

Library Organization. Classification Systems and Call Numbers. Organization Not Unique to Libraries. Examples: Grocery stores Book stores Your items How? Why?. Major Classification Systems. Library of Congress Classification System (LCC) Dewey Decimal Classification System (DDC).

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Library Organization

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  1. Library Organization Classification Systems and Call Numbers

  2. Organization Not Unique to Libraries • Examples: • Grocery stores • Book stores • Your items • How? • Why?

  3. Major Classification Systems • Library of Congress Classification System (LCC) • Dewey Decimal Classification System (DDC)

  4. What Do Libraries Use? • 25% of academic libraries use DDC • 75% of academic libraries use LCC

  5. Library of Congress Classification System • The LCC system groups materials into broad subject categories which are identified by a letter of the alphabet (A-Z) • 5 exceptions: I, O, W, X, and Y

  6. Subjects

  7. Subjects

  8. How Would You Classify It? “Advances in Clinical Child Psychology” Library of Congress Call Number: RJ503.3 .A37 R – Medicine RJ – Pediatrics RJ 370-550 - Diseases of Children and Adolescents

  9. LCC Call Numbers • When searching the library’s catalog, you’ll find the book’s unique call number

  10. LCC Call Numbers

  11. Similar Subjects Grouped Together Note how books on the same subject have similar call numbers

  12. Reading the Call Number

  13. Reading LC Call Numbers • Every call number begins with one to three letters, followed by various combinations of whole numbers, decimal numbers, and/or letters

  14. Reading LC Call Numbers • Sometimes at the end of the call number will be a year, a volume number, or a copy number

  15. Reading LC Call Numbers • Items are arranged in alpha-numeric order • single-letter call numbers ahead of multiple letter call numbers with the same first letter • Examples: • H40 comes before HA1 • Z7000 comes before ZA2

  16. Reading LC Call Numbers • Numbers to the left of the decimal point in LC call numbers are whole numbers • HF54 (HF Fifty-four) comes before HF5381 (HF Five-thousand, three-hundred, eight-one)

  17. Reading LC Call Numbers • Numbers to the right of the decimal point in LC call numbers are decimal numbers • HF5381 .M37 (M Thirty-seven hundredths) comes before HF5381 .M5 (M Five-tenths or Fifty-hundredths)

  18. The following call numbers are in order (as they would be on the shelf)Where would the call number, CB 48 M35 1997, be on the shelf? C 47 R43 1995 CB 41 B97 R63 1993 CB 410 S10 CB 427.5 A84 1995 CB 483 S8 1926 A B C D E

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