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Work Mark & Other Information
- In order to distinguish different or additional works by the same author in the same class, a “work mark” is used. Work marks are commonly used with cutter numbers both to help maintain alphabetical order on the shelves and to create a unique call number for each work. The work mark is usually the first letter of the first important word in the title or the author’s last name, and is placed after the cutter number. The Cutter number and work mark make the call number for a title distinct from all other call numbers in the same classification. In general, the Cutter number is based on the main entry (whether author or title) and the work mark is based on the title (if the main entry is not a title).
Also, if the catalog entry's numeration has brackets: i.e. [c.2], this indicates that the label may say copy 2, but copy "one" has since vanished, hence, making this really copy 1 and Tech services hasn't relabled it yet.
Work marks enable us to maintain alphabetical order within the numerical order of items on the
shelves, i.e.:
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612 aak 612 jat 612.01 coo 612.01 cor 612.3 jul 612.31 mat 612.4 cuf 613 bur 613.00914 nak |
Examples:
| 813 K5872bag - Call number for Stephen King’s “Bag of Bones.” The “bag” at the end of the call number comes from the title. | |
| 813 K5872ch - Call number for Stephen King’s “Christine.” The “ch” comes from the title, “Christine.” | |
| 813 K5872st - Call number for Stephen King’s “The Stand,” published in 1978 by Doubleday. The date of publication was not included in this work mark. | |
| 813 K5872st1980 - Call number for Stephen King’s “The Stand,” published in 1980 by New American Library (Signet). The work mark does indicate the date of publication of this book (1980). | |
| 813 K587s - Call number for Stephen King’s “The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition,” released in 1990 by Doubleday. | |
| 823 W46ti1995 - The call number for the Time Machine by H.G. Wells. Time Machine was originally published in 1895, but this title was produced by Penguin Books in 1995. | |
| 823 W46def1987 - This a “critical edition” of Time Machine, called, “The Definitive Time machine: A Critical Edition of H.G. Well's Scientific Romance,” and was published in 1987 by Indiana University Press. The def in the work mark comes from the word, Definitive, in the title. | |
| 823 W46ti1984 - The Time Machine and, The Invisible Man, both by H.G. Wells, was published by Signet in 1984. |
Additional designations (which come after the work mark) may include: copy numbers, volume numbers, index designations, supplement designations, and years of edition.
| 813 C866a c.1 - This is the call number for the book, “The Andromeda Strain,” by Michael Crichton. "c.1" tells us that this is copy 1 of this title. | |
| Q. 505 n v.402 D(1999) c.9 - This call number is for the journal, Nature. "v.402" tells us the volume (402), "D(1999)" the date of publication (1999), and "c.9" the copy number (9). | |
| Q. 530.5 apph v.72-73 INDEX(1998) c.4 - This call number is for the journal, Applied Physics Letters. "v.72-73" indicates the volumes (72-73), "INDEX" that the item is an index, "(1998)" the date of publication (1998), and "c.4" the copy number (4). |
The work mark is omitted for complete or collected works, annual reports, thesis, in a chronological series, or works entered under a title (i.e., where no author or editor is known). When the library collection was very small, it was the practice not to assign a work mark to the first title by an author in any class number. The library has grown to the point where this is no longer possible.
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