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Classification Practice
1. GENERAL RULE
Fondren Library follows the LC classification tables and LC practices, with the following determinations of options and exceptions for certain types of works. Most government documents retain the Superintendent of Documents classification number. For For local practice in call numbers for non-book materials see: Call Numbers for Music Recordings, Section VII, Chapter D, Rice Theses, Section IV, Chapter J and and Cataloging Visual Materials, Section IV, Chapter G.
2. LITERATURE
2.1 Fiction
Fondren Library classifies works of fiction by individual authors with literature, not in PZ. For some works of fiction, LC provides the class and author numbers only; the cataloger must provide the appropriate second cutter number for the work in hand. Such These works can be identified by the lack of a subfield b (in OCLC) for the call number. Use the appropriate table for the author concerned, and check the call number index to fit the title correctly into the alphabetical sequence.
Should LC establish a number for an author for whom Fondren Library has already established a different number, the cataloger will change our number to conform with LC's decision (see Cutter Tables, Section VII, Chapter E for guidelines in constructing cutter numbers). The The cataloger completes will complete a boxwork form for works each work cataloged under the superseded number.
Notes: Another Library Here is another library's practice about the application of PZ call numbers – https://staff.lib.ncsu.edu/confluence/display/MNC/PZ+Classification
2.2 Changed form of entry/call number anomaly
With changes in form of entry occasioned by adoption of AACR2 and changes in LC practice, many already established classification numbers will will not seem not to to properly reflect properly the author’s name. This This is true for all schedules, but it is most glaring in the literature schedule. We We will not reclassify or recutter but will leave the classification as it stands (unless LC reclassifies or recutters).
2.3 Authors in more than one language or under more than one name
Fondren Library now follows LC practice and no longer classifies all literary works of an author in one call number.
Multiple Languages. A A work is classified with the literature of the original language of the work. For example, Vladimir Nabokov’s works in Russian will be classified in Russian literature, his works in English with American literature.
Multiple Names. A A work is classified under the established heading for the name used for that work. Works of an author who writes under more than one name will no longer be collocated under the author’s real name.
We will make no systematic attempt to reclassify works cataloged under former policies.
2.4 Two works by one author issued in one volume
LC is not consistent in its treatment of two works by one author issued together in one volume under a collective title such as "Two tales", "Plays", etc. Fondren Fondren Library will put such volumes in the call number for separate works and will cutter for the first of the two works in the volume. A title added entry will be made for each of the two works in the volume.
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In many cases provision is made in the PR and PS schedules for collections of short stories by a single author (e.g., PS 2612 for Poe's collected prose fiction). When such provision is not made, especially when Tables XXXIX (39) or XL (40) are used, classify as follows:
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Classify collections of short stories by writers of any country other than England or the U.S. according to the LC schedule for story collections in the literature of the country.
3. OTHER MATERIALS
3.1 Bibliographies
If LC copy has Z classification and there is no alternate subject call number stem, accept the LC call number.
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4. PARTICULAR CLASSIFICATION POLICIES
Cuttering. Fondren Fondren Library uses the Author Number Table for cuttering. We We use two digits instead of one in the author cutter. The The cutters for translations that Fondren Library uses are based on a Translation Table derived from LC practice.
Translations. If If the cataloger has a translation in hand, but does not have the original title of the work, reasonable search only should be made for the original title. If the original title is not then found, cutter from the translation title as if it were the original title, without adding translation cutter.
Biographies. Fondren Fondren Library follows the expanded Biography Table issued by LC for use in classifying biographical materials in schedules lacking biography tables.
Dates. Tables Tables in LC schedules requiring date letters in call numbers will not be used, unless a precedent has already been established. We We will simply use the date in the call number.
LC Class for Rice University. Fondren Fondren Library classifies Rice University at LD4711 (reflecting the name Rice University, rather than at LD 6350, which LC has established reflecting the name William Marsh Rice University). Table Table III is used to subdivide.
Prepared by: Brian E. Surratt
Last updated: September 20, 2011
Index Terms: Classification, LC call numbers, Z call numbers, PZ call numbers.