LC Call Number Exercise

LC Call Number Exercise
for
LIBR 55A: Library Cataloging and Classification
Karen Saginor

This exercise will give you practice in using the Library of Congress Classification schedules and the Cutter chart to assign complete LCC call numbers. For each item, you will input the same call number in each of two formats:

The format used for the spine label

The format used in the MARC record

Explanation and instruction on how to use the LCC schedules and the Cutter chart will be given in a classroom session.
Click on the button to open the workspace window for that item.

1. Under the Big Top: The Circus in American Social History, 1890-1950. By Helen Spanner, published 1985.

2. Dying to Entertain You: The Truth about Circus Animal Training. no author given, published 1998.

3. Taming the King of the Beasts: The Image of the Circus Lion in the British Imagination. By Edmund Isenburg, published 1995, revised 1997.

4. The Life of John Quayle: The Saddest Clown in the Circus. By Jose Santiago, published 1996, reprinted 2001.

5. The United States Rodeo Guide: Where and When to Find Those Cowboys. Edited by Mary Lee, 6th ed., published 2002. 1st edition was published in 1975.

6. Calf Roping in the Rodeo. By JoAnne Hopkins and Betty Morgan, published 1992, reprinted 1994.

LCC schedule for this exercise
LC Cutter Chart

Prepared July, 2002 by ksaginor@ccsf.edu

1. Under the Big Top: The Circus in American Social History, 1890-1950. By Helen Spanner, published 1985.

2. Dying to Entertain You: The Truth about Circus Animal Training. no author given, published 1998.

3. Taming the King of the Beasts: The Image of the Circus Lion in the British Imagination. By Edmund Isenburg, published 1995, revised 1997.

4. The Life of John Quayle: The Saddest Clown in the Circus. By Jose Santiago, published 1996, reprinted 2001.

5. The United States Rodeo Guide: Where and When to Find Those Cowboys. Edited by Mary Lee, 6th ed., published 2002. 1st edition was published in 1975.

6. Calf Roping in the Rodeo. By JoAnne Hopkins and Betty Morgan, published 1992, reprinted 1994.

LCC schedule for this exercise LC Cutter Chart

LCC schedule for this exercise
LC Cutter Chart