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007 Introduction Field 007 Values Table 007 Electronic Resource 007 Globe 007 Map 007 Microform 007 Motion Picture 007 Nonprojected Graphic 007 Projected Graphic 007 Remote-sensing Image 007 Sound Recording 007 Tactile Material 007 Videorecording 010 LC Control No. 012 Terminal Display 013 Patent Control Information 015 National Bibliography No. 016 National Bibliographic Agency Control No. 017 Copyright/Legal Deposit No. 018 Copyright Article-Fee Code 019 OCLC Control No. Cross-Reference 020 ISBN 022 ISSN 024 Other Standard Identifier 025 Overseas Acquisition No. 026 Fingerprint Identifier 027 STRN 028 Publisher No. 029 Other System Control No. 030 CODEN Designation 031 Musical Incipits Information 032 Postal Registration No. 033 Date/Time/Place of an Event 034 Coded Cartographic Mathematical Data 035 System Control No. 036 Original Study No. 037 Source of Acquisition 040 Cataloging Source 041 Language Code 042 Authentication Code 043 Geographic Area Code 044 Country Code 045 Time Period 046 Special Coded Dates 047 Musical Composition Code 048 Number of Instruments/Voices Code 049 Local Holdings 050-099 Introduction 050 LC Call No. 051 LC Copy, Issue, Offprint Statement 052 Geographic Classification 055 Classification No.-Canada 060 NLM Call Number 061 NLM Copy Statement 066 Character Sets 070 NAL Call No. 071 NAL Copy Statement 072 Subject Category Code 074 GPO Item No. 079 OCLC Master Record Number 080 UDC No. 082 DDC No. 084 Other Classification No. 086 GovDoc Classification No. 088 Report No.

090 Local LC-type Call No.

092 Local Dewey Call No. 096 Local NLM-type Call No. 098 Other Classification Schemes 099 Local Free-Text Call No.

Contents   Fixed field   0xx   1xx   2xx   3xx   4xx   5xx   6xx   7xx   8xx   9xx

090  Locally Assigned LC-type Call Number (R)

Input Standards

Optional/Optional
1st Indicator  Undefined
blank character  Undefined
2nd Indicator  Undefined
blank character  Undefined
Subfields (R=Repeatable  NR=Nonrepeatable) Input Standards
‡a Classification number (R) Mandatory/Mandatory
‡b Local cutter number (NR) Optional/Optional
‡e Feature heading (NR) Optional/Optional
‡f Filing suffix (NR) Optional/Optional

Call numbers based on LC classification schedules, but assigned locally. If you are transcribing LC copy, use field 050 for the LC-assigned call number. Use field 055, field 060 or field 070 for call numbers based on LC classification schedules but assigned by the Library and Archives Canada (NLC), the National Library of Medicine (NLM) or the National Agricultural Library (NAL).

Records may contain field 050 and field 090, but only if field 050 is a word or phrase (e.g., PAR, Newspaper, UNC, or NOT IN LC). Field 090 is not retained in the master record if field 050 contains a call number. It is retained in archive records, institution records, OCLC-MARC records, and exported records.

If you assign a Library of Congress classification number according to the LC class schedules, use field 090 or field 050 with indicators "14". If the classification portion of your number does not conform to the LC class schedules, use field 099.

Multiple call numbers

 Certain classification choices are recognized to be local decisions. For example, if one user has chosen to class together a monographic series and another library classes it separately, multiple call numbers in the master record may be appropriate. Multiple call numbers are allowed in these circumstances:
 
  • Classed together number vs. classed separately number for monographic series
  • Literature number vs. PZ number for fiction
  • Bibliography number vs. subject number
  • LC minimal number vs. member call number
  • Geographic classification number vs. subject classification number for maps and atlases
  • LAW number vs. actual K class number

1st Indicator

 Undefined. The 1st indicator position is undefined and contains a blank (blank character ).
blank character Undefined

2nd Indicator

 Undefined. The 2nd indicator position is undefined and contains a blank (blank character ).
blank character Undefined
‡a Classification number

The class number portion of the locally assigned call number.

‡b Local cutter number

The item number portion of the locally assigned call number.

‡e Feature heading

A feature heading from a classified catalog. Data in subfield ‡e print on cards and display in label displays as if they were in subfield ‡b.

‡f Filing suffix

A filing suffix from a classified catalog. Data in subfield ‡f print on cards and display in label displays as if they were in subfield ‡b.

 Data in subfields ‡e and ‡f print as if they were in subfield ‡b.

K schedules

 		 OCLC provides a special class K option for incomplete class numbers. You may assign a call number that consists of the alphabetic portion of the projected class number (e.g., KM or KR) followed by an item number.

If you are entering such a call number, enter 0 following the class letters. The print program prints the class letters and the remainder of the call number but suppresses the 0. Your profile determines whether a blank line intervenes between the class letters and the cutter number.

Displayed in record Prints as (profile A) Prints as (profile B)
KM0 ‡b .S63 KM
.S63		 KM

.S63
KR0.F689 ‡b R7 KR
.F689
R7		 KR

.F689
R7

If the classification number is complete (e.g., KD5110 or KF4558), treat the call number as a complete call number.

If a call number in field 050 or field 090 has class letters only (no 0 or other numeral following the class letters), a zc card results.

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