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Learning about Call numbers

Learning about Call numbers. What is Call number?. What is a call number?. A call number is location tool used to identify individual books, periodicals, or audio visual media within a your library. Call numbers can be between one line and five lines.

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Learning about Call numbers

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  1. Learning about Call numbers

  2. What is Call number?

  3. What is a call number? • A call number is location tool used to identify individual books, periodicals, or audio visual media within a your library.

  4. Call numbers can be between one line and five lines. Each Line of a call number identified specific information about the book. This information includes: Book Type Location Author’s name Year of Publishing Number of copies

  5. Book Type How does a call number tell you what type of book you have? Call numbers define if a book is fiction, non fiction, Reference, biography, or children material, oversize, or even large print. Call numbers can even tell you if the author of a book is anonymous

  6. Fiction books are alphabetical by the first three letters of the authors last name. Non-Fiction books have a combination of number and letters in the call number. Biographies will either be classified by the full last name of the bio subject, or 92.

  7. Location • The primary purpose of a call number : is to tell you the location of the book on the shelf. Think of Call numbers and the books address.

  8. Non-Fiction Books • Book Title: The book of enlightened masters : western teachers in eastern traditionsAuthor: Andrew Rawlinson Call Number: BL1032.R38 1998 • The first two lines describe the subject of the bookBL1032 = Asia--Religion, spiritual biography • The third line represents the author's last nameR = Rawlinson • The last line represents the date of publication

  9. The Structure of a Call number • Line 1 : Location • Line 2: Author or Non-Fic number • Line 3: Author or Copy right year • Line 4: copy number or copy right year

  10. Can different books have the same call number? • Yes they Can! • Fiction books by the same author will have the same call number. Non- Fiction books within the same subject area will as well.

  11. Where are they located?

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