School of Information Management & Systems. Spring 2000.
245   Organization of Information in Collections.   Buckland.

Exercise 7: Dewey Classification and Call Numbers. Due April 24.

Review the four pages handed out in class on April 10.
If additional guidance is needed, see Wynar text, chaps 17 and 19 in Computer Lab.

1. Create a call number for the following imaginary book:

Cats in Berkeley, by M. Buckland. Published 2000.

For the classification number:
Use the Index to the Dewey Classification to find the appropriate part of the classification schedules.
Select the most appropriate number.
Then add a suffix for geographical location from Table II: Geoghraphical areas, etc.

To make it into a call number:
Add a cutter number for the author's surname from the Cutter-Sanborn book of cutter numbers.
Add the year of publication.
In anticipation this being a book in heavy demand, needed in many copies, add "Copy 1."

2. Assume that your invaluable database were a document being added to a library collection.
For the classification number: Use the Index to the Dewey Classification to find the appropriate part of the classification schedules. Select the most appropriate number.
Add the suffix for "Encyclopedias, etc." from Table 1 and whatever suffixes are appropriate from other tables, e.g. geographical location form the Table of places.
Add a cutter number for your own surname, this time using the LC cutter numbering rules on the handout.
Then add 2000 as year and copy number.

Add any explanations and/or comments.