Context on Call Number Types

Owned by Heorhii Namchuk
Feb 20, 2023
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Call Number Types patterns

LC

Regex pattern

(not precise as pattern does not count forbidden first letters:)

^[A-Z]{1,3}[0-9]{1,4}\.?([0-9]{1,2})?\ ?\.?[A-Z]{1}[0-9]{1,}.?\ ?([A-Z]{1,2}[1-9]{1,})?\ ?([0-9]{1,})?

LC Examples

QC 981.8 .G56 G578

QC 981.8 .G56 G578 2002

N 6537.L54 A2 2000

M 1010.M952 B595 1987

Sorting LC Call Number

Valuable to know is that cutter value is treated as decimal: e.g.: L54 is greater than L525 (see info)

Dewey Decimals

Examples

973 C375a 1950

973 C375

SuDoc (Superintendent of Document)

Examples
  • EP 1.23:998
  • EP 1.23:A 62
  • EP 1.23:91-44
  • EP 1.23:600/998-103
  • EP 1.23:600/R-98-23

NLM (National Library of Medicine)

Examples

WF 100934075 (may be not precise)