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Building Cutter Numbers:An Overview
Webinar Cheryl Boettcher Tarsala, Ph.D.September 12, 2014 Slide2
Webinar Outline
Principles and Types of CutteringHow to Use the Cutter-Sanborn TableVaried Uses for Cuttering
in LCC
Basic Use of the LC Cutter Table
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Principles
Alphanumeric codesLetter(s) A-Z + Numbers (1-999+/-)Numbers are decimalsReduces cognitive load for shelving and filing
Photo of Charles
Ammi
Cutter
source: Wikimedia Commons
Quote:
LJ
July 1887, p. 251
“This
notation is designed to keep books on the shelves
alfabeted by authors.”
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Little House Authors
Book covers from HarperCollins “Little House” series
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Little House Authors
Cutter
Full Last
Name
Title
(Author)
WIL
Farmer Boy
(
Wilder,
Laura Ingalls)
WILFarmer Boy Goes West (Williams, Heather)
WILLittle House in Brookfield
(
Wilkes,
Maria D.)
WIL
Little House in the Big Woods
(
Wilder, Laura Ingalls)
WIL
Little House in the Highlands
(
Wiley, Melissa)
WIL
Little House on the Prairie
(Wilder, Laura Ingalls)
WIL
Little Town on the Prairie
(
Wilder, Laura Ingalls)
WILMary Ingalls on Her Own (Willard, Elizabeth Kimmel)
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Little House Authors
Full Last Name
Title
(Author)
WILDER
WIL
Farmer Boy
(
Wilder,
Laura Ingalls)
WILDER
WILLittle House in the Big Woods (Wilder, Laura Ingalls)
WILDERWIL
Little House on the Prairie
(
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
)
WILDER
WIL
Little Town on the Prairie
(
Wilder, Laura Ingalls)
WILEY
WIL
Little House in the Highlands
(
Wiley, Melissa)
WILKESWIL
Little House in Brookfield
(
Wilkes,
Maria D.)WILLARDWILMary Ingalls on Her Own
(
Willard, Elizabeth Kimmel)WILLIAMSWIL
Farmer Boy Goes West (Williams, Heather)
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Cuttered Little House Authors
Cuttered
Title
(Author)
W673f
WILDER
WIL
Farmer Boy
(
Wilder,
Laura Ingalls)
W673ℓhbWILDERWILLittle House in the Big Woods (Wilder, Laura Ingalls)
W673ℓhp
WILDER
WIL
Little House on the Prairie
(
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
)
W673ℓt
WILDER
WIL
Little Town on the Prairie
(
Wilder, Laura Ingalls)
W676ℓ
WILEYWIL
Little House in the Highlands (Wiley, Melissa)W682ℓ
WILKES
WIL
Little House in Brookfield
(Wilkes, Maria D.)W692m
WILLARD
WILMary Ingalls on Her Own (
Willard, Elizabeth Kimmel)W723fWILLIAMS
WILFarmer Boy Goes West (Williams, Heather)
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Types of Cuttering
Standalone Cutter TablesCutter two-figureCutter three-figure
Cutter-Sanborn
Cutters for Library of Congress Classification
image source
openclipart.org
by Nina
Geometrieva
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Availability of Standalone Cutter Tables
Complicated by copyright
1969 Swanson-Swift Revision
Available from
Hargrave
House
or used
All three variants on 15-inch cardboard
OCLC’s
cuttering
programOCLC Four-figure Cutter and Cutter-SanbornNon-U.S. websitesOnly Cutter-Sanborn three-figureCover images
Left: Original Cutter-Sanborn table, ca. 1920-1940, dist. by H.R. Huntting Co.
Right: Swanson-Swift Revision (1969), printed 1976, dist. by
Hargrave
House
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Cuttering Steps
Scan the alphabetical list to identify where the word you wish to cutter falls.If it matches an entry exactly, choose that number.If it falls in between two entries, choose the entry above where it should file.
Each cutter number represents all possible names beginning with the exactly listed entry and ending just before the next listed entry.
Place a capital letter representing the first letter of the word before the number.
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How to Use the
Cutter-Sanborn Table
Images of
Cutter-Sanborn Three-Figure
Author Table (Swanson-Swift Revision)
, p. 23.
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Cutter-Sanborn Practice
P
ot 859
P
otti
871
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Image
Detail from
Cutter-Sanborn Three-Figure
Author
Table (Swanson-Swift Revision), p. 23. Slide13
DIY Expansion
Titles or corporate body names
Non-European words with j’s, q’s, x’s and z’s,
especially Arabic and Pinyin
But … only under the same
classification number
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Xi
Xiao
Xing
X
a
1
X
an
2
X
av
3
X
e
4
X
en
5
X
er
6Xl 7Xu 8Xy 9
A
men 511
A
mer
512Ames 513Ames M 514Amh
515
A
mi 516
A
min 517
A
mm
518
A
mmir
519
American Art Association
American Art Bureau
American Art Clay Company
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Why the Swanson-Swift Revision Was Needed
Did not change the numbering, only the presentation
1969
Image: Original
Cutter-Sanborn table,
ca
. 1920-1940, dist. by H.R.
Huntting
Co.
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Work marks
Lower-case letters placed at the end of a cutter number used to subarrange titlesLetters after cutter can signal other aspects of the workScript “ℓ
” [Unicode U+2113]
Instructions are available in the front of the Cutter-Sanborn (Swanson-Swift)table
Cutter’s “Explanation” pamphlets freely available via Google Books, Internet Archive, etc
.
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“Two-figure” Special Issues
No online versions of these tables except OCLCFor vowels, use two letters before the numberEd98For the letter S
, use two letters before the number
Sm64
For words beginning with the letters
Sc, use three letters before the number
Sch56
Also includes Cutter three-figures
Not
for Cutter-Sanborn
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Last Words From Charles Ammi Cutter
“Some persons are apprehensive that this decimal arrangement will be hard to use. …
It may be so sometimes;
I can only say that I never had any difficulty with any one,
boy or girl, man or woman, when the arrangement is explained as it is above.”
Charles A. Cutter,
Explanation of the alphabetic-order marks
(two-figure tables) (1911), p. 5.
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CLASSIFICATION
USING CUTTERING WITH
Library of Congress logo from
Wikimedia Commons
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Cutters in LC Call Numbers
A Library of Congress call number may have one, two, or three cutter numbersRarely: noneThree are used only in Class G for mapsThe first one is always preceded by a period
Subsequent ones are not
One letter + one or two digits
R
arely: three or
more
LC Cutters file decimally, with or without the period in front of them
There are no work marks
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How is Cuttering Used in LCC?
Author’s last nameTopic words
Geographical Place Names
Subarranging
Types of Works
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TS755 Gemstones
.P3 = Pearls
UH30 Military Cyclists
.F8 =
Fürstenberg
G2972 Atlas
.T3 = Tahiti
GV884 Basketball players
.J63 Magic Johnson
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Types of LC Cutter Tables
General UseBiography Table
Regions and Countries
Translations
Table XL for literary “Z” cutters
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Availability of LC Cutter Tables
Online ToolboxesLibrary of Congress Classification and Shelflisting ManualPDF Downloads from Library of Congress (free)
Through
Cataloger’s
Desktop
(subscription)Printed Cataloging Textbooks
Lois Mai Chan’s
Guide to the Library of Congress Classification
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Basic Practice with LC Cutters
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Image from
Library of Congress Classification and
Shelflisting
Manual, sheet G63Slide24
The Name of the Game is Shelflisting
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Photo of Lois Mai Chan from
Library of Congress Cataloging Directorate, 2001.
Quote
:
Chan’s
Cataloging and Classification, 2
nd
ed, p. 288.
“Since the table provides only a general framework for the assignment of numbers,
the symbol for a particular name or work is constant only under a particular class number
.”
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Shelflisting in Practice
Make newcomers fit with existing numbers to preserve alphabetical order
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LC Call Number
Author/Title
SF426.5
.B35
2012
Baines, Rebecca
Everything Dogs
SF426.5.B37 1987
Bare, Colleen Stanley To Love a Dog
SF426.5
.B375
2000
Barner
, Bob
Walk the Dog
SF426.5
.B38
1990
Barrett, Norman S.
Dogs
SF426.5 ???? 2014
Barzoi, Sam A Special Dog
SF426.5.B45 2006
Bennett, Leonie
My Dog’s a Mommy
SF426.5
.B47 2001Berman, Ruth My Pet DogSF426.5
.B53 2000
Blankenhorn, Rebecca World of Dogs
SF426.5.B63 2007Bodden, Valerie
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Shelflisting in Practice
Make newcomers fit with existing numbers to preserve alphabetical order
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LC Call Number
“Correct” Cutter
Author/Title
SF426.5
.B35
2012
.B35
Baines, Rebecca
Everything Dogs
SF426.5.B37 1987
.B37
Bare, Colleen Stanley
To
Love a Dog
SF426.5
.B375
2000
.B376
Barner
, Bob
Walk the Dog
SF426.5.B38 1990.B377
Barrett, Norman S. DogsSF426.5.B385
2014.B379
Barzoi
, Sam
A
Special DogSF426.5.B45 2006.B46Bennett, Leonie
My Dog’s a Mommy
SF426.5.B47 2001.B47Berman, Ruth
My Pet DogSF426.5.B53 2000
.B53Blankenhorn, Rebecca World of Dogs
SF426.5.B63 2007.B63
Bodden
, Valerie
DogsSlide27
For a more advanced understanding of LC cuttering
, register for my Library of Congress Classification eCourse opening October 6, 2014
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Image:
Manual of Library Classification and Shelf Arrangement (1898), p. 167.
Internet Archive Book Images
