| 1. | After initial vowels for the second letter use number: | b 2 |
d 3 |
l-m 4 |
n 5 |
p 6 |
r 7 |
s-t 8 |
u-y 9 |
| 2. | After initial letter S for the second letter use number: | a 2 |
ch 3 |
e 4 |
h-i 5 |
m-p 6 |
t 7 |
u 8 |
w-z 9 |
| 3. | After initial letters Qu for the second letter use number: | a 3 |
e 4 |
i 5 |
o 6 |
r 7 |
t 8 |
y 9 |
|
| 4. | After other initial consonants for the second letter use no.: | a 3 |
e 4 |
i 5 |
o 6 |
r 7 |
u 8 |
y 9 |
|
| 5. | For third and fourth letter expansion use numbers: | a-d 3 |
e-h 4 |
i-l 5 |
m-o 6 |
p-s 7 |
t-v 8 |
w-z 9 |
The basic rule is to add the date of imprint to all monographs.
197- ; use
1960z. [if corporate body, use 1970]
197-? ; use 1970z. [if corporate
body, use 1970]
19-- ; use 1900z.
[if corporate body, use 1900]
19--? ; use 1900z. [if
corporate body, use 1900]
1976? ; use
1976
The designation of periodicals by form number .A1, may be done practically anywhere in the classification when no provision for periodicals is provided under a topic
The custom of indicating autobiography or letters of a person by the form number .A3 appended to a subject number, even when no table or direction to do so is given
Translation - cutter extensions to represent the language of the translation
English 13
French 14
German 15
Italian 16
Spanish 18
Photocopy or facsimile. Add the date of the original work and the work letter a
.U54 1952 ; .U54 1952a ; .U54 1952aa, etc
Edition. Use the imprint date. If another edition is received with the same imprint date, use work lettters starting with "b"
.I33 1982 ; .I33 1982b ; .I33 1982c, etc.
Table developed by Jeff Taylor for local use, incorporating the
2-place cutters .x12-18 in
SCM:Shelflisting G150:
Polyglot .x12
Afrikaans .x123
Albanian .x1235
Amharic .x1237
Arabic .x124
Armenian .x1242
Azerbaijani .x1244
Balinese .x1245
Basque .x1247
Bengali .x125
Breton .x1255
Bulgarian .x1257
Burmese .x1258
Byelorussian .x126
Catalan .x1265
Chinese .x127
Czech .x1277
Danish .x128
Dutch .x129
English .x13
Esperanto .x134
Estonian .x135
Finnish .x137
French .x14
Gaelic (Scots) .x144
Georgian .x148
German .x15
Greek, Modern .x153
Gujarati .x1533
Hawaiian .x1535
Hebrew .x154
Hindi .x155
Hungarian .x156
Icelandic .x157
Indonesian .x1575
Irish .x158
Italian .x16
Japanese .x163
Javanese .x1633
Khmer
[Cambodian] .x1636
Korean .x164
Lao .x1657
Latin .x165
Latvian .x1654
Lithuanian .x166
Macedonian .x1663
Malay .x1664
Malayalam .x1665
Maltese .x1666
Maori .x1667
Marathi .x1668
Moldavian .x1669
Norwegian .x167
Oriya .x1673
Persian .x1675
Polish .x168
Portuguese .x169
Romanian .x1695
Russian .x17
Samoan .x174
Serbo-Croatian
(Cyrillic) .x1754
Serbo-Croatian
(Roman) .x1755
Slovak .x177
Slovenian .x178
Spanish .x18
Swahili .x183
Swedish .x184
Tamil .x187
Thai .x188
Turkish .x19
Turkmen .x192
Ukrainian .x194
Urdu .x1947
Vietnamese .x195
Welsh .x196
Yiddish .x198
Zulu .x199
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UNIVERSITY PROVIDENCE, RI 02912 : 401-863-1187/FAX 863-2093 :
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Documentation written by Eileen Crawford, Divinity Library Cataloger
Last Updated: September 06, 2002