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ACCESSION NUMBER AS CALL NUMBER
Sometimes catalogers will choose to allow an accessions number serve as a call number. For volumes, the small label in back can use the date on the bottom instead of duplicating the accession number. For example, printed books that were once classed as 52L-MANUSCRIPTS and are being reclassed as 52L-1140 etc. will have small labels that look like this. We no longer include the date at the bottom of the small label that goes into the verso of the volume. We also omit "THE" from "HOUGHTON LIBRARY, as well as the asterisk that used to precede the accession number. Here are samples of the old and the new labels for bound single itemsitems in a collection. Such items are put at the end of the call number sequence on a given shelf, even though do not follow the regular call number sequence. Single items no longer keep accession numbers as call numbers. If the end processor receives such an item, it should be returned to the cataloger to have a proper call number assigned before end processing can begin.
CURRENT:
52L-1140 |
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