Shelflisting Practice for Dates
Following LC practice, date will be added to call number. Follow the instructions below when assigning call numbers. (The following instructions are excerpts from the Library of Congress Classification and Shelflisting Manual G 140.)
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Date in 260/264 $c |
Date in Call Number |
Fixed Field (pub. status & date) |
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1976? |
1976 |
s 1976 |
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ca. 1976 |
1976 |
s 1976 |
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1981, c1980 |
1981 |
t 1981 1980 |
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1971, c1972 |
1972 |
t 1971 1972 |
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1979 [i.e.1978] |
1978 |
s 1978 |
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1962 or 1963 |
1962 |
s 1962 |
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1969 (1973 printing) |
1969 |
s 1969 |
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1980 printing, c1957 |
1957 |
s 1957 |
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1979 [distributed] 1980 |
1979 |
s 1979 |
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1979-1981 |
1979 |
m 1979 1981 |
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between 1977 and 1980 |
1977 |
m 1977 1980 |
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1978/79 [i.e. 1978 or 1979] |
1978 |
s 1978 |
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1977 (date on cover 1978) |
1978 |
s 1978 |
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[between 1970 and 1979] (AACR2 197-) |
1970z |
q 1970 1979 |
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[between 1970 and 1979?] (AACR2 197-?) |
1970z |
q 1970 1979 |
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[between 1900 and 1999] (AACR2 19--) |
1900z |
q 1900 1999 |
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[between 1900 and 1999?] (AACR2 19--?) |
1900z |
q 1900 1999 |
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1998 for 1997 |
1998 |
s 1998 |
| [between 1900 and 1976?] | 1900z | q 1900 1976 |
1. General rule. Add the date of imprint to all monographs. Examples:
QC76.9.D53 2009
2. Special situations.
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a. Congress or conference headings. If the date of a congress or conference is present in the main entry, use the date of the congress or conference. If a date is not present, use the imprint date (cf. G 230). Example: 111 20 $a International Congress of Navigation $n (25th : $d 1981 : $c Edinburgh, Scotland) (published in 1983.) Use 1981 in call number |
b. Multiparts. Add the date of imprint of the first/earliest part (i.e. the earliest date found in either the 260 field or the 362 1 field) to the call number, unless the new multipart item is in a larger multipart item/monographic series classed as a collection. Upon receipt of additional volumes, it may be discovered that the date used in the call number is not the earliest date. Although earlier policy was to reclass to reflect the earlier date, it is no longer necessary to do this.
c. Photocopy or facsimile editions. Add the date of the original edition and the work letter a.
e.g. HC103.M46 2004a
d. Other editions. For later editions of the same work, use the imprint date. If another edition is received with the same imprint date, use the work letters starting with b. Examples:
.I33 1982
.I33 1982b
.I33 1982c, etc.
e. Classes subarranged by date only. If a work is classed in an area that is subarranged by date only, do not add another date to the call number. Instead, add a work letter starting with b to the date.
PR5551 Tennyson, Alfred Lord, Selected works. By date
050_4 $a PR5551 $b 1968
050_4 $a PR5551 $b 1968b
03/08/13 rev/ YT; YT 2022-09