Belletristic Call Numbers (SML)
2005 version
By: Steven Arakawa
Date: (Jan. 31, 2005 creation date/ 02/09/2005 11:52 AM revision date)
Contents:
Western Literature Call Numbers
General Arrangement
Single Cutter Authors
Shelflisting of Literary Works by Single Cutter Authors050 00-- Member record with literature call number -- Example 1. Member record with call number. Authority record in Orbis with 053 -- Example 2. Member record with call number. Authority record in Orbis with 090 LC -- Example 3. Member record with call number. No 053 or 090 LC in authority record --Example 4. Member record with an author new to Orbis. No authority record in Orbis. First check for an LC number in LCDB-- Example 5. Member record for an author new to Orbis, no LC number found. -- Example 6. Member record for an author new to Orbis; no LC number found. Split author arrangement in Orbis.
Filing and Arrangement
Special Notation for Single Cutter Literary Authors (P-PZ40)Shelflisting a .xZ481-.xZ9999 against the LC Online Catalog
Unofficial Table for expanding numbers in range .xZ481-.xZ9999Single Number authors
Multiple Number Authors
PZ Call Numbers
Workflow
Related Documents
Western Literature Call numbers for Individual Authors
Library of Congress Literature Classes for Western Languages PB1201-1329 Celtic languages & literatures (e.g. Gaelic, Welsh) PC3801-3976 Catalan language & literature PH5001-5490 Basque PQ Romance literature (e.g. French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese) PR English literature PS American literature PT Germanic literature (including Dutch and Scandinavian literature) Within each class, there are a number of topics (e.g. PS214: American literature--19th century) and numbers for individual authors (e.g. PS1541: Emily Dickinson).
Individual authors are grouped by period under each national literature. Under each period, they have been assigned individual numbers in an alphabetical sequence. Authors prior to the twentieth century are assigned ranges of numbers according to the amount of material by and about them. Major authors, such as Shakespeare (PR2750-3112) and Goethe (PT1891-2239), have been assigned over three hundred numbers each. Other important authors, such as Robert Browning and Friedrich von Schiller, receive up to fifty numbers each. Most of the authors receive one number or a cutter number. For example, Emily Dickinson receives one number: PS1541.
All twentieth century authors are assigned a cutter number each, regardless of the amount of material. For example, William Faulkner has been assigned the number PS3511.A86. It is important to remember that the cutter number for the author is usually based on the second letter of the author’s last name. This is necessary because the cardinal number refers to the first letter of the author’s last name. In other words, PS3511 is used for twentieth century American authors whose names begin with the letter F. Author cutters based on the first letter of the name sometimes occur in those areas of the schedules reserved for authors writing in countries where use of the language is often a colonial legacy; in that case, the schedule assigns one number followed by A-Z, e.g. 20th century Indian authors writing in English is PR9499.3.A-Z. So, Salman Rushdie is PR9499.3.R8. Other examples: French-Canadian authors 1961-2000 is PQ3919.2.A-Z, so Marie Auger: PQ3919.2.A926. 20th century New Zealand authors is PR9639.3.A-Z, so Ngaio Marsh: PR9639.3.M27 (at Yale .M37).
LC has begun to add 21st century authors to the schedules. A 21st century author is defined as an author who publishes for the first time in 2001 or later. 21st century authors generally follow the pattern of 20th century authors, i.e. the author is assigned a single cutter number. If the 20th century pattern has been to base the cutter on the 2nd letter of the author's name, the same pattern is followed for the 21st century. If the 20th century pattern was to base the cutter on the first letter of the name (e.g. French-Canadian PQ3919.A-Z 1960-2000), the same pattern is followed for the 21st century (PQ3919.3.A-Z 2001-).
Whatever the range of numbers assigned to an author, works written by and about the author are subarranged according to a recurring pattern:
1. Collected works
2. Selected works
3. Translations (of the works, not of the individual titles)
4. Separate works, alphabetically by title (with translations of each title following the title in the original language; followed by books about the specific work)
5. Biography and general criticism (i.e. books not about a specific work)
Single Cutter Authors
As indicated above, most twentieth and twenty-first century authors writing will have a single cutter number. Different works are distinguished by a 3rd line cuttered to the book’s title. An example of an author with a single number is the 20th century novelist D.H. Lawrence. Here, a 1996 edition of his novel Sons and lovers has the call number:
050 0 0 ‚b PR6023.A93 ‚b S6 1996
PR6023 In the LC classification, PR6000-6049 is English literature, 1900-1960. PR6023 is for English literature, 1900-1960 for authors with last name beginning with the letter L. .A93 Author cutter (to the 2nd letter of the author's name, LAwrence) S6 Book number/cutter for title of work: Sons and lovers 1996 Date of publication. (The practice of adding a date to the call number dates from the '70's. )
All fiction, drama, poetry, correspondence and autobiography by D.H. Lawrence, and all books about D.H. Lawrence will have the same class number (PR6023) and the same author cutter (A93).
A 1978 edition of his Women in love has the call number:
050 0 0 ‚b PR6023.A93 ‚b W6 1998 Amores, collection of poems by D.H. Lawrence published in 1916:
050 0 0 ‚b PR6023.A93 ‚b A7 1916 Selected letters of D.H. Lawrence, 1997 (letters get a special Z48 notation):
050 0 0 ‚b PR6023.A93 ‚b Z48 1997 Literary criticism about D.H. Lawrence, 2005 (literary criticism/biography gets special notation in the range Z5-Z9999):
050 0 0 ‚b PR6023.A93 ‚b Z955 2005 For a more detailed table of examples for D.H. Lawrence, refer to the P-PZ40 Examples document.
NOTE: Beginning in Feb. 2005, the literature class number PZ (juvenile belles lettres) has been accepted and applied in SML cataloging. Prior to Feb. 2005 SML catalogers always converted PZ numbers to the more detailed nationality numbers in the literature schedules. For current practice, go to the section PZ Call Numbers.
The main objectives in shelflisting literature call numbers are:
- Keep all of the literary works by the same author together
- Keep all editions of individual works by the same author together (in chronological order)
However, in Feb. 2005 SML began to accept LC 050 00 literature class call numbers "as is." The "as is" numbers are designated locally by adding a capital X ("trailing X"), generally at the end of the book number. (The trailing X practice has been relatively longstanding for other class numbers in the schedules.) As a result, the objective is somewhat modified:
- Keep all of the literary works by the same author together under the SML assigned number or the LC number (if known)
- Keep all editions (expressions and manifestations) of individual works by the same author together (in chronological order) under the SML assigned number or the LC number (if known)
- If both the SML assigned number and the LC number are known, prefer the LC number
Note that this means literature call numbers assigned by libraries other than LC or SML will continue to be modified to be consistent with our online files.
Shelflisting of Literary Works by a Single Cutter Author
The primary objective of the 2005 policy change is to facilitate processing of literary materials. While efficiencies will be most evident in LC 050 00 processing, shelflisting literature call numbers from member copy, member copy without call numbers, and original cataloging may be complicated by the split files that will result from accepting LC numbers shelflisted against a different catalog. The shelflisting procedures following take the modified shelflisting objectives and the overall primary objective into consideration.
1. 050 00. The number is always accepted "as is," with the addition of trailing X:
050 0 0 ‚b PS3569.H746 ‚b R47 1995
852 0 0 ‚b sml ‚h PS3569.H746 ‚i R47X 1995 Note that PZ numbers are also acceptable with trailing X. This number is for The Slippery slope by Lemony Snicket. Note that PZ uses lower case for book numbers.
050 0 0 ‚b PZ7.S6795 ‚i Sl 2003
852 0 0 ‚b ccl ‚h PZ7.S6795 ‚i SlX 2003 2. Member record with literature call number.
With your bib record displayed, open the menu Record-->Retrieve Authorities. If the author is listed as a heading, open the authority record and check for a 053 or a 090 LC. If there is one, use it as the author number for your record.
If no authority record is retrieved, or if there is no 053/090, perform a Staff Name Search. If you retrieve a cataloged record or records, use the author number in 852.
However, if you notice that the cataloged bibliographic record has a 050 00, use the LC author number in combination with the member copy book number in preference to a number derived from another Orbis record's MFHD.
Optionally, in situations where there is no 053 but authoritative information (i.e. 050 00) is readily available, catalogers authorized to update the authority record may add a 090 LC number to record the authorized author number to facilitate processing in the future. Note that LC and not a location code should precede the author number; 090 <location code> should be used to record location specific decisions on whether a title is classed-together or classed separately. Staff not authorized to update authority records should not routinely request authorized staff to update the record for 090 LC.
If the author is new to the Orbis catalog, search in LCDB for other literary works by the author or an authority record with 053. You still need to verify that the book number is in correct alphabetical sequence.
Example 1. Member record with call number. Authority record in Orbis with 053.
Member copy for the item in hand. Call number assigned by the member record for the novel Im Krebsgang by the German author Günter Grass.
050 4 ‚a PT2613.R38 ‚b I5 2005 Display your bib record. Click on the Record Menu, then click Retrieve Authorities (or use the appropriate macro). In this case, a heading list is retrieved. Click on the heading for the author from the Heading List to display the authority record. Note that a 053 has been assigned to Grass.
053 0 ‚a PT2613.R338 100 1 ‚a Grass, Gèunter, ‚d 1927- In that case, the cataloger should use the LC cutter in the 852 for Im Krebsgang, because given the choice, you always want to use the LC number. Note that trailing X is not used in this situation, since the number as a whole was not assigned by the Library of Congress.
852 0 0 ‚b sml ‚h PT2613.R338 ‚i I5 2005 Example 2. Member record with call number. Authority record in Orbis with 090 LC.
Member copy for the item in hand. Call number assigned by the member record for the novel Efter hjältedöden by the Swedish author Henrik Tikkanen.
050 4 ‚a PT9876.3.I39 ‚b E34 1979 Display your bib record. Click on the Record Menu, then click Retrieve Authorities (or use the appropriate macro). In this case, a heading list is retrieved. Click on the heading for the author from the Heading List to display the authority record. Note that although there is no 053, a 090 LC has been assigned to Tikkanen by a Yale cataloger (who had previously noted its use in a 050 00 bibliographic record).
090 ‚a LC: PT9876.3.I37 100 1 ‚a Tikkanen, Henrik In that case, the cataloger should use the LC (090) cutter for Tikkanen in the 852 for Efter hjältedöden, because given the choice, you always want to use the LC number. Note that trailing X is not used in this situation, since the number as a whole was not assigned by the Library of Congress.
852 0 0 ‚b sml ‚h PT9876.3.I37 ‚b E34 1979 Example 3. Member record with call number. No 053 or 090 LC number on authority record .
Member copy for item in hand. Call number assigned by the member record for the novel Les astres vagabonds by Gérard Ramstein.
050 4 ‚a PQ2718.A478 ‚b A97 2003 Authority record is retrieved, but it has no 053/090 LC. A Staff Name search retrieves a cataloged record for another novel by Ramstein, Requiem pour une puce (2001). MFHD has:
852 0 0 ‚b lsf ‚h PQ2718.A58 ‚i R47 2001 The author number may be derived from the cataloged record for Requiem pour une puce. The MFHD for the edition of Les astres vagabonds would then be:
852 0 0 ‚b sml ‚h PQ2718.A58 ‚i A97 2003 If the bibliographic record for Requiem pour une puce had had a 050 00, you should use the author number assigned by LC. However, the Requiem record only had a 050 _4. You are not expected to check other cataloged records in search of an 050 00.
Example 4. Member record with an author new to Orbis. No authority record in Orbis. First check for an LC number in LCDB . You are cataloging the Australian edition of the book Seven types of ambiguity by Elliot Perlman, who is an author new to Orbis; there are no cataloged bibliographic records for other works by Perlman found in Orbis when you do a Staff Name Heading search.
The bibliographic record for the item in hand has an 050 _4:
050 4 ‚a PR8272.E69 ‚b S48 2003 At the time of cataloging, there is no authority record in Orbis for Perlman. Because the author is new and we want to establish the author in Orbis with an LC number if possible, search in LCDB to see if you can find a bibliographic or authority record for Perlman. A record for the American edition of the novel is found with a different author number.
050 0 0 ‚a PR9619.3.P3619 ‚b S48 2004 You should use the LC author number for your book rather than the number used on the member record's 050 _4.
852 0 0 ‚b sml ‚h PR9619.3.P3619 ‚i S48 2003 Searching in LCDB is efficient; searching in the LC Online Catalog or the utilities for a number is not.
Example 5. Member record for an author new to Orbis; no LC number found. You are cataloging Picture bride by Cathy Song, a twentieth-century author new to the catalog. You have used Retrieve Authorities and the Staff Name Headings search; no authority record and no cataloged bibliographic records are found in Orbis. No bibliographic records with 050 00 or an authority record with 053 are found in LCDB.
The member bibliographic record for the item to be cataloged has:
050 4 ‚a PS3569.O6539 ‚i P53 2005 A Staff Name search retrieves no cataloged records for books by Cathy Song. If the number was used "as is," it would be out of sequence for the Orbis alphabetical ("shelf") arrangement by author:
PS3569.O57 Sontag, Susan
<---PS3569.06539 Song, Cathy would file here out of sequence for the author arrangement if 050 4 was used "as is"
PS3569.O67 Sorcic, JimTo shelve in author sequence, Song, Cathy should file between Sonde, Susan and Sontag, Susan.
PS3569.O565 Sonde, Susan
<Song, Cathy>
PS3569.O57 Sontag, SusanIn order to shelve in the correct sequence, the author cutter for Song, Cathy is varied to O5654. The call number ultimately assigned to Picture bride by Cathy Song is:
PS3569 Class number for 20th century American literature, last name S .O5654 Author cutter for Song, Cathy P53 Book number/cutter for title of work: Picture bride 1983 Date of publication Arrangement in Orbis:
PS3569.O565 Sonde, Susan
PS3569.O5654 Song, Cathy
PS3569.O57 Sontag, SusanExample 6. Member record for an author new to Orbis; no LC number found. Split author arrangement in Orbis. As more items with 050 00 copy are processed, catalogers will begin to encounter split files in the alphabetical author arrangement caused by the "as is" numbers with trailing X. If the trailing X numbers are not in synch with the author arrangement in Orbis, file around them, i.e., ignore the X numbers when deciding where to insert your author.
Member record is for new author Gerhard Oberlin with 050 _4; no LC number found.
050 4 ‚a PT2675.B4 ‚b S6 1983 But the Orbis author arrangement has:
Call number Author PT2675.B44 ... X Obernosterer, Engelbert PT2675.B47 Oberhauser, Leo PT2675.B4734 Oberhollenzer, Josef PT2675.B475 Oberl_ander, Harry PT2675.B48226 Obermayer, Inge Obernosterer, with trailing X, is ignored in filing, and Gerhard Oberlin may be inserted between Oberländer and Obermayer:
Call number Author PT2675.B44 ... X Obernosterer, Engelbert PT2675.B47 Oberhauser, Leo PT2675.B4734 Oberhollenzer, Josef PT2675.B475 Oberl_ander, Harry PT2675.B48 Oberlin, Gerhard PT2675.B48226 Obermayer, Inge There are already a number of areas where the filing arrangement is considerably out of synch and where it will not be clear which file to ignore, since some of the splits may be due to human error, including assignment of trailing X to non-LC numbers. Here is a somewhat truncated example. Where to insert Paola Calvetti?
Call number Author PQ4863.A39357 Caliceti, Giuseppe PQ4863.A3939 Calimani, Bruno PQ4863.A394 Calimani, Riccardo PQ4863.A39423 Calligarich, Gianfranco PQ4863.A39425 Calloni, Gianni PQ4863.A39437 Camerana, Oddone PQ4863.A3945 Camilleri, Andrea PQ4863.A3955 Camon, Ferdinando PQ4863.A397 Calvino, Fortunato PQ4863.A3974 Canale, Ezio PQ4863.A3976 Cancogni, Manlio PQ4863.A3978 Cancogni, Maria Grazia PQ4863.A399 Calzavara, Ernesto PQ4863.A3995 Calzavarra, Luciano PQ4863.A4233 Camarca, Claudio PQ4863.A4235 Cambiaggio, Giuditta PQ4863.A4235 Cambria, Adele PQ4863.A424 Camerana, Oddone PQ4863.A425 Camerino, Aldo PQ4863.A4258 Camilleri, Andrea PQ4863.A43 Camilucci, Marcello PQ4863.A446 Cammelli, Stefano PQ4863.A447 Cammilleri, Rino PQ4863.A45 Camon, Ferdinando In this situation, it appears that the numbers between PQ4863.A39437-A3955 and A3974-A3978 are out of sequence, so Calvetti would file between Calloni and Calvino. Although the highlighted numbers should be ignored, they should not be re-used.
852 0 0 ‚b sml ‚h PQ4863.A396 ‚i A73 2000 Filing and Arrangement Rules
Names changed by AACR2. Even if the last name is changed by AACR2, you should continue to use the author cutter to the preAACR2 form.
Filing rules. When shelflisting, keep in mind some significant filing rules that affect alphabetic sequence of author cutters:
- Treat a prefix that is part of a name or place as a separate word unless it is joined to the rest of the name directly or by an apostrophe without a space. If an initial article is included in the established form of a personal name, it counts in filing: El-Ayoutty, Yassin files under E, not A. (If El-Ayoutty is a single cutter author where the first part of the class number represents the first letter of the name, the author cutter would begin with L.)
- "What you see is what you file." Do not ignore the "u" in names beginning with Qu when shelflisting author cutters [the rules are different when shelflisting book numbers]. Do not file names beginning with Mc as Mac. Do not translate umlauts to e (i.e. do not file ü as ue, file as "u;" do not file ö as oe, file as "o"). File abbreviations as written, e.g. St. files as ST not Saint.
- File single surnames before compound surnames; file given names before surnames. Hyphenated compound surnames file as separate words.
Here is an example of correct filing sequence involving prefixes from the LC Shelflisting Manual:
Darby, Joseph R.
D'Arcy, Paula, 1947-
De, S. C
De La Cruz, Jessie Lopez, 1919-
De Lange, Elaine
DeAndrea, William L.
D'Ebneth, Maria Scholten de
Deformation of solids
Del Balzo, Giulio
Delaurier, William J."What you see is what you file" (also from the LC Shelflisting Manual):
Mabney, William
MacDonald, Joan E., 1916-
Marshall, Catherine, 1914-
McGrath, SuzanneSML cataloging did not take changes in filing rules into account in some of its shelflisting practices. Follow the current rules for new authors; ignore numbers established under the old rules when determining the author arrangement for new authors.
Special Notation for Single Cutter Literary Authors (LC Literature table P-PZ40)
LC uses the range A11-Z458 for the works themselves (collections, selections, individual works) and local practice has always followed this part of the table from the implementation of LC classification in the 1970's.
However, LC notation practice for items related to the literary works of the author is to assign numbers in the range Z4581-Z9999. Prior to 2005, SML practice dating from the implementation of LC classification was to modify LC notation for single cutter authors for biography/criticism, correspondence, and autobiography. Beginning in 2001, SML began to follow the standard LC notation practice for new authors. With the Feb. 2005 policy change the practice is now extended to previously established authors. The mapping of the number range is given in the LC P-PZ40 table.
Use link at:
Examples demonstrating the application of P-PZ40 are at:
Since there appears to be no documentation on how LC expands Z cutters used in table P-PZ40, shelflist works of biography, criticism, correspondence, autobiography, etc. (Z4581-Z9999) against the LC Online catalog when LC has assigned an author number. Since you will need to shelflist against LC's file, you should assign the LC author cutter when cataloging single cutter authors in the Z4581-Z9999 range.
a. Book about D.H. Lawrence. No 050 00:
100 1 ‚a Hostettler, Maya, ‚d 1954- 245 1 4 ‚a D.H. Lawrence, travel books and fiction / ‚c Maya Hostettler. 260 ‚a Berne ; ‚a New York : ‚b P. Lang, ‚c c1985. 600 1 0 ‚a Lawrence, D. H. ‚q (David Herbert), ‚d 1885-1930 ‚x Criticism and interpretation. b. Connect to LC Online Catalog: http://catalog.loc.gov/
c. Click on Basic Search. Your search strategy depends on the number of works written about your author. If your author was John le Carré, a call number browse search on pr6062.e33 z will retrieve about 20 hits, and you should have no problem fitting your Z number into the LC file (the LC retrieval window displays 25 records at a time). But a call number on D.H. Lawrence's pr6093.a93 z will bring up 200+ records. How to find a number in the Z5-Z9999 range in that case? You can guess where Hostettler would fit within that range, enter that number, e.g. pr6093.a93 z4, and take your chances, doing a series of call number browses on various guesses until you find where you want to be in the file. A more systematic approach might be to use a subject search to help navigate the call number file as in d.-h. following; it may be that this technique won't be necessary as you get more experience navigating the LC call number file.
d. From the Basic Search window, click on Subject Browse in the Search type box to select the index. In the Search Text box type the author's name as you would in Orbis: lawrence d h and click the Begin Search button. Tip: the LC Online catalog can sometimes be quite slow. If the search hangs up, click on the Stop button on your browser and re-execute the search.
e. The result window will be very similar to Orbis, since LC also uses the Voyager software. Scroll through the subdivisions assigned to Lawrence until you find the set of records with subdivision --Criticism and interpretation (over 200 of these in the current display) and click on either the display number or the hyperlinked heading to display the subset of records assigned: Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 Criticism and interpretation. (You may get similar results if you use the smaller subset of lawrence, d h without the --Criticism and interpretation subdivision [90 records]; just avoid the headings subarranged by individual title, since these records generally would not be assigned numbers in the Z5-Z9999 range)
f. Now scroll through the records until you find an item with a main entry close to Hostettler. Note that, like Voyager, the titles without an author display before the titles with an author, so you need to scroll past the titles without an author. Tip: for large retrievals, the LC display hotlinks the first number for each set of 25 between the Previous and Next navigation bars:
< Previous 1 26 51 76 101 126 151 176 201 Next>
Clicking on 76 opens a display beginning with [76] Hoffmann and ending with [100] Kenmare. Within 76-100, Hough (PR6023.A93 Z6318) is probably closest to Hostettler. Click on the hotlink of the display number or the full title to display the Hough record.
g. Note that the call number PR6023.A93 Z6318 for the book by Hough is hotlinked. Click on the hotlink, and the search will automatically move to the call number browse beginning with that call number. Since Hostettler is before Hough, you now need to click Previous to see the range of numbers preceding PR6023.A93 Z6318. Scanning to the bottom of the window, the order will be something like:
PR6023.A93 Z63154 Hofheinz, Ellen, 1950- Kurzgeschichten von D.H. Lawrence ... / Ellen Hofheinz. PR6023.A93 Z6316 Holbrook, David. Where D.H. Lawrence was wrong about woman / David Holbrook. PR6023.A93 Z6317 Holderness, Graham. D.H. Lawrence : history, ideology, and fiction / Graham Holderness. PR6023.A93 Z6318 Hough, Graham Goulden, 1908- Dark sun : a study of D.H. Lawrence / by Graham Hough. h. Note that Hostettler will fit between Holderness (Z6317) and Hough (Z6318), so:
050 4 ‚a PR6023.A93 ‚b Z63177 1985 100 1 ‚a Hostettler, Maya, ‚d 1954- 245 1 4 ‚a D.H. Lawrence, travel books and fiction / ‚c Maya Hostettler. 260 ‚a Berne ; ‚a New York : ‚b P. Lang, ‚c c1985. 600 1 0 ‚a Lawrence, D. H. ‚q (David Herbert), ‚d 1885-1930 ‚x Criticism and interpretation. And:
852 0 0 ‚b sml ‚h PR6023.A93 ‚i Z63177 1985 In the event that LC has not established the author, or LC has established the author but has not yet applied the table, and the item in hand requires .xZ5-.xZ9999, use following unofficial table to assign numbers in that range. Numbers at the extreme ends of the ranges were not included in the tables to ensure maximum flexibility as the size of the file increases.
Unofficial Z expansion table Z5-Z999 expansion on
first letter of main entry
(Criticism and
biography)LC expansion on 2nd
letter and following
lettersA-E Z54-Z58 A-D 3 F-J Z64-Z68 E-H 4 K-O Z74-Z78 I-L 5 P-T Z84-Z88 M-O 6 U-Z Z94-Z99 P-S 7 T-V 8 W-Z 9 Example: A biography of Michael Connelly:
100 1 ‚a Thurston, Patricia. 245 1 4 ‚a Mean streets of Los Angeles / ‚c Patricia Thurston. 260 ‚a Los Angeles : ‚b Press of the University of California, ‚c 2015. 600 1 0 ‚a Connelly, Michael, ‚d 1956-‚x Criticism and interpretation. a. LC author number is: PS3553.O51165
b. No book number in the range .xZ4581-.xZ9999 has been assigned in Orbis or the LC Online Catalog, so a number needs to be constructed.
c. Book number. Main entry Thurston, first letter T. Table assigns Z84-Z88 to the range P-T, so number should begin with Z88. Then expand for second letter H. Table assigns 4 to expansion letters in the range E-H, so Z884:
050 4 ‚a PS3553.O51165 ‚b Z884 2015 Single Number Authors
As indicated above, a twentieth- or twenty-first century author will have a unique cutter number but will share the same class number (first line of call number) with many other 20th/21st century authors (e.g. PR6023: all twentieth-century British authors with the last name "L.") Many pre-20th century literary authors, on the other hand, are assigned a unique class number. The P-PZ40 table is generally not applied to these authors.
Example. Emily Dickinson has a single number: PS1541. For biography and criticism of Emily Dickinson, LC adds a second line Z5, and a third line cuttered to the main entry:
050 0 0 ‚a PS1541.Z5 ‚b S55 1983 100 1 ‚a Shurr, William. 245 1 4 ‚a The marriage of Emily Dickinson : ‚b a study of the fascicles / ‚c William H. Shurr. 260 ‚a Lexington, Ky. : ‚b University Press of Kentucky, ‚c c1983. SML call number:
852 0 0 ‚b sml ‚h PS1541.Z5 ‚i S55X 1983 Since most single number authors will have been established in Orbis and enough time has passed for at least one or two books to have been written about them, the lack of an author cutter will usually be the clue that the P-PZ40 table should not be applied. Since SML did not deviate from LC for pre-20th century authors, if there is already a pattern set up for the author in Orbis, follow the pattern, adjusting the book number if necessary. When in doubt, refer member copy for pre-20th century authors to staff authorized to check the number in ClassWeb. For works (collected or separate) by the author, it is generally a good idea to have the number checked on ClassWeb.
Author with More than One Number
A voluminous author or an author whose works have appeared in many editions will have a range of numbers. Such an author will have separate numbers assigned to each major work, as well as separate numbers for other aspects of the author’s work. Search Orbis and compare LC 050 treatment of the following titles:
The second part of King Henry the Fourth. Edited by Samuel B. Hemingway. (PR2811.A2=Edition; H45=editor, Hemingway)
The second part of King Henry the Fourth. Edited by Norman N. Holland (PR2811.A2=Edition; H6=editor, Holland)
A critical commentary on Shakespeare’s King Henry IV, part 2. By Peter Hollindale. (PR2811.H65)
Henry V. Edited by Gary Taylor, an edition published 1982. (PR2812.A2=Edition of Henry V; T28=editor)
William Shakespeare : an introduction to his life, times, and theatre. By Irving Ribner. (PR2894=Criticism and biography of Shakespeare; general works)
Shakespeare’s early comedies. By E.M.W. Tillyard. (PR2981=Shakespeare’s comedies)
The wheel of fire : interpretations of Shakespearian tragedy. By G. Wilson Knight. (PR2983=Shakespeare’s tragedies)
The structure of Shakespearean scenes. By James E. Hirsch. (PR2997=Shakespeare, special topics)
Since voluminous authors will have specific numbers assigned to separate works, determining a pattern based on past practice may be misleading. Refer member copy for pre-20th century voluminous authors to staff authorized to check the number in ClassWeb.
PZ Call Numbers
With the Feb. 2005 policy change, PZ call numbers are now assigned for juvenile belle lettres. The 050 00 for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets:
050 0 0 ‚a PZ7.R7968 ‚b Har 1999 From SCM: Classification F615 Juvenile Materials:
4. Belles lettres. Class in PZ all books of juvenile and young adult fiction, in all languages, general (multi-genre) collections of juvenile belles-lettres, picture storybooks, alphabet and counting books with a story line, stories in rhyme, individual song texts illustrated for children, juvenile folk tales, and traditional nursery rhymes. Juvenile fiction, folklore, etc., in English are classed in PZ5-PZ10.3; other languages are provided with similar ranges for this purpose. Class juvenile poetry, drama, humor, and comic books in the P-PT literature schedules.
Note that the scope note of 4. does not apply to works of biography/criticism of an author whose works class in PZ. Note also that the use of PZ for non-juvenile literature is no longer authorized in the schedules.
Navigating the PZ schedule. Tip: if you need to assign a PZ number, log on to ClassWeb and access PZ through the Hierarchy Classification Browser rather than the Standard or Enhanced Classification Browser to get an overview of that part of the schedule. You can then click on the hotlinks to get more and more detail.
Shelflisting for PZ should be against the LC Online Catalog.
Workflow for Literature: Belletristic Works, Criticism and Interpretation, and Biography
1. Determine if cataloging for the item has an 050 00 call number. If it does, add trailing X. No shelflisting needed.
1a. If the cataloging for the item does not have an 050 00 number but has an 050 _4 or 090 (member copy), then determine if the class number is an LC literature class. If it isn't (the subjects indicate the book is on linguistics, philology, etc.), process like any other non-literature call number.If the number is a literature class, go to 2.
1b. If there is no 050 _4 or 090, go to 3.
2. From the 050/090, determine
2a. whether the book is belletristic (fiction, poetry, drama, sometimes general essays usually of a personal nature) or a work of "criticism and interpretation" or biography (the subjects or lack of them will generally determine this).
2b. whether the call number is constructed in the form CLASS-AUTHOR CUTTER-BOOK NUMBER (single cutter author).
If the author is not of the single cutter type, i.e. it is a single number author like Emily Dickinson or a multi-number author like Shakespeare, have the number checked on ClassWeb if it is a work (collected works or separate work) by the author. For single number authors like Dickinson, if it is biography, criticism, etc, and the pattern has already been established (other works about the author have already been cataloged) follow the pattern already set up in Orbis, adjusting the book number if necessary.
2c. whether the book is juvenile belletristic (PZ).
3. On Orbis, use a Staff-Name search on the author’s name.
3a. If the author is a single cutter type, and cataloging is found for any of the author's works in Orbis, use the 852 cutter unless you notice that LC has assigned a different number in 050 00 or in 053 or 090 LC of the authority record. In that case, use the LC number. Shelflist the book number against the Orbis online catalog.
3b. If the 050 _4/090 number is PZ class, use the number but shelflist it against the LC Online catalog rather than the Orbis catalog.
3c. If there are no cataloged works by the author in Orbis, check in LCDB to see if LC has established a number for the author. If LC has established the author, use the LC number but shelflist the book number against the Orbis online catalog.
3d. If there are no cataloged works by the single cutter author in Orbis, and LCDB indicates that LC has not established a cutter for the author, shelflist the 050 4/090 author number against the Orbis OPAC. Once you have saved a call number entered in the staff MFHD record, note that the Refresh button in Web Voyage will re-display the sequence with the new number inserted. The number must respect the alphabetical sequence of the author numbers previously established. Two authors may not have the same number unless they publish under a single name (e.g. Ellery Queen).* If there are split files caused by trailing X numbers, ignore the X numbers when determining the filing sequence; however, note that if one of the X numbers is for your author, you should prefer the author cutter used by LC 050 00.
*It is possible that LC will have claimed a number already used by Yale for a different author. Provisionally, the decision is to use the same number for two different authors (in practice this has already happened with some authors due to human error). However, there may be situations where we will need to reclass; in that case the items with the Yale number should be reclassed.
3e. If you don't have an 050 4/090, and a search in Orbis or LCDB shows that the author is not a single cutter type (pre-20th century), refer to 2b.
4. For authors already assigned a cutter in Orbis, determine if Orbis has earlier editions of the work (only counts if the edition is recorded in the SML union shelflist!), or an edition of the original (ditto) if you have a translation. If there are, use the book number of the earlier edition (or use the book number of the original as the base number and add the translation numbers). If there are numbers assigned by Yale and LC (in Orbis--you don't want to spend time searching through LCDB, the LC Online Catalog, or the utilities for the LC number) for earlier editions or the original language edition, prefer the LC number. If there are no earlier editions, i.e. the title by that author is new to Yale, then use the book number as found with the cataloging copy unless it needs to be adjusted to keep the title in sequence.
5. If the author number is established and the book is belletrisitic, use the on-line shelflist (use an LC call number search in the public OPAC) to make sure the book number is in sequence; adjust the number only if absolutely necessary.
6. If the author number is established and the book is about an individual work by the author, check Orbis to determine the book number used at Yale for that work, add 3 and additional digit(s) for the main entry. If it is necessary to shelflist the book number, do it against the Yale OPAC. If Yale has never assigned a book number to the work, accept the number used on the copy.
7. If the item cataloged being cataloged is about the author’s works in general (or a biography, autobiography, or correspondence), verify that the member book number is consistent with the P-PZ40 table, and shelflist the book against the LC Online Catalog. (Like PZ numbers). Do not use the old SML notation (Z9/Z5/Z6/Z7).
RELATED DOCUMENTS
New Procedures for Cataloging Belletristic Materials at SML
Guidelines for Cataloging Belletristic Materials (SML) arrangement by type (Word table)
Guidelines for Cataloging Belletristic Materials (SML) arrangement by workflow (Word table)
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Last updated: 02/09/2005 11:52 AM
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