Book Numbers
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Book Numbers


William Denton, an MLS student, has written and posted a paper on book numbers.
I wrote this essay in February 2003 for a course in the theory of classification at the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. The introductory cataloguing course had, of course, covered Dewey and Library of Congress, but the details of book numbers were dismissed with a quick "and you can add on something to indicate what volume or copy it is." I wasn't clear on exactly what a book mark was, or a title mark or collection mark, and who said you could use them, and who made the rules. I wanted to know, so when I got the chance I wrote this ten-pager.




- Cuttering At The National Library Of Medicine
News from the NLM.The National Library of Medicine (NLM) wishes to announce that it will cease providing cutter numbers in LocatorPlus for most of the classification numbers assigned to print monographs that the Library catalogs. Cutter assignment will...

- Google Books Api And The Opac
Google has an API for Google Books that can add informaiton to the OPAC.The Google Book Search Book Viewability API enables developers to:Link to Books in Google Book Search using ISBNs, LCCNs, and OCLC numbersKnow whether Google Book Search has a specific...

- Classweb
Through the courtesy of a cooperative agreement with OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), the Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS) is now able to offer access to the following correlations with Dewey classification numbers:LC Subject Headings...

- Dewey
The "Dewey Error Notification List" is intended to notify people who classify materials using DDC numbers which the Library of Congress has assigned in the bibliographic records they so kindly prepare and distribute. Occasionally, errors may occur in...

- Classification
The Library of Congress Classification schedules have traditionally used parentheses around certain class numbers to indicate one of two conditions:the number was formerly valid but is now obsolete and no longer used by LC, orthe number is an optional...



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