What is a call number?
A call number is location tool used to identify individual books, periodicals, or audio visual media within a your library.
Call numbers can be between one line and five lines.
Each Line of a call number identified specific information about the book.
This information includes:
Book Type Location Author’s name Year of Publishing Number of copies
Book Type
How does a call number tell you what type of book you have?
Call numbers define if a book is fiction, non fiction, Reference, biography, or children material, oversize, or even large print.
Call numbers can even tell you if the author of a book is anonymous
Fiction books are alphabetical by the first three letters of the authors last name.
Non-Fiction books have a combination of number and letters in the call number.
Biographies will either be classified by the full last name of the bio subject, or 92.
Location
The primary purpose of a call number : is to tell you the location of the book on the shelf. Think of Call numbers and the books address.
Book Title: The book of enlightened masters : western teachers in eastern traditionsAuthor: Andrew Rawlinson Call Number: BL1032.R38 1998
The first two lines describe the subject of the bookBL1032 = Asia--Religion, spiritual biography
The third line represents the author's last nameR = Rawlinson
The last line represents the date of publication
Non-Fiction Books
Line 1 : Location Line 2: Author or Non-Fic number Line 3: Author or Copy right year Line 4: copy number or copy right year
The Structure of a Call number
Yes they Can! Fiction books by the same author will have the
same call number. Non- Fiction books within the same subject area will as well.
Can different books have the same call number?
Top Related