Bib Control links: pt 12 Call number search

Library of Congress Online Catalog

http://catalog.loc.gov/

The Library of Congress Online Catalog is so popular among cataloguers who do not have any paid subscription for Marc Records.

They are FREE and if you use "MARC Tags Display" and look for 050 and 082 tag, you will get the LC class number and DDC number for some records. Using this method, it may ease your job of finding the call number you need, be it LCC or DDC.

For example: the 2nd edition of "Brown, Abbie. Essentials of instructional design : connecting fundamental principles with process and practice / Abbie Brown, Timothy D. Green." published in 2011 have the following details:

050	00 |a LB1028.38 |b .B76 2011
082	00 |a 371.3 |2 22

Source of information: http://catalog.loc.gov/

The above information is free!

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Alternatively, the Classification web from Library of Congress at http://classificationweb.net/Auto/ provides correlation search.

Please note that it is a Fee based service (Paid Service).

If you are accessing it from the Library or the Organisation, it only works when your Library or Organisation subscribed to the service. You can view the contents without any login process as the system authenticates the access via institution's IP address.

From Menu  http://classificationweb.net/Auto/ you will be able to:

Browse LC Classification Schedules

Search LC Classification

Browse LC Subject Headings

Search LC Subject Headings

Search Genre/Form Terms

Search Children's Subject Headings

Browse LC Name Headings

Search LC Name Headings

Bibliographic Correlations (menu)

If you use the Bibliographic Correlations ( menu) at
http://classificationweb.net/Menu/corr.html

It will show the following links:

LC class number => Dewey class number
LC class number => NLM class number
LC class number => LC subject heading
LC class number => LC subject heading (including names)
LC subject heading => LC class number
LC subject heading => Dewey class Number
LC subject heading => NLM class number
LC subject heading (including names) => LC class number
LC subject heading (including names) => Dewey class Number
LC subject heading (including names) => NLM class number
Name as Creator (1xx field) => LC Class Number
Name as Creator (1xx field) => Dewey Class Number
Name as Creator (1xx field) => NLM Class Number
Dewey class number => LC class number
Dewey class number => LC subject heading
Dewey class number => LC subject heading (including names)

For example:

LC class number => Dewey class number

If you Key in LC class number "LB1050", you will get DDC class number:

http://classificationweb.net/min/minaret?app=Corr2&mod=Search&fkey=LB1050_00999999_00&fkid=1&lkey=LB1050_2E22_00&lkid=1&query=&index=classHeading&menu=%2FMenu%2F&ctype=l2sh&cmd=Search&F_stext=LB1050&F_stype=l2d&count=25

LB1050
428.4 (87)
372.4 (45)
372.41 (45)
428.407 (19)
428.4071 (13)
428.43 (10)
372.43 (7)
372.40973 (6)
418.4 (6)
372.6 (5)

Browse LC Name Headings
will allow you to browse name heading, i.e. Tan Wee Kiat will return you the details:
http://classificationweb.net/min/minaret?app=Names&mod=Browser&look=0&fkey=&fkid=&lkey=&lkid=&tid=1&query=&index=ez_heading&menu=%2FAuto%2F&auto=1&cmd=Browse&F_ez_heading=tan+wee+kiat&S_ez_heading=&count=25

Tan, Wee Kiat
Found in:	Naturally yours, Singapore, c1992: t.p. (Tan Wee Kiat)
	National Parks Singapore WWW site, May 10, 2010 (Dr. Tan Wee Kiat; CEO of Nparks; retd. in 2006)
UF	Kiat, Tan Wee
Tan, Wee Kiat, 1940-
Found in:	Jack and the carnivorous pitcher plant, 1999: t.p. (Tan Wee Kiat) p. 83 (Dr. Tan Wee Kiat; lect., National Inst. of Education, Singapore; studies nature & stamp collector)
	Singapore's monuments & landmarks : a philatelic ramble, 2007: t.p. (Tan Wee Kiat) back cover (Tan Wee Kiat; retd. lect., National Institute of Education; stamp enthusiast)
	Email from author, Apr. 21, 2010 (b. Apr. 4, 1940)
UF	Kiat, Tan Wee, 1940-

Browse LC Name Headingswill allow you to browse name heading, i.e. "cohen, h. f " will return you the details

Cohen, H. F.
Found in:	His Quantifying music, c1984: CIP t.p. (H.F. Cohen) CIP data (b. 7/1/46) book t.p. (H.F. Cohen; Technical University Twente, Dept. of Social History of Science and Technology, Enschede) jkt. (H. Floris Cohen)
	LC data base, 2/6/84 (hdg.: Cohen, H. F.)
	LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Cohen, H. F.; b. 1946)
	Lorentz, H.A. Selected works of H.A. Lorentz, 1987- : v. 5, t.p. (H. Floris Cohen)
UF	Cohen, H. Floris
Cohen, H. Floris
USE	Cohen, H. F.

As it is a subscription based service, it only works when your Library or Organisation subscribed to the service.  Otherwise, you will see a login page that demand for user name and password.  That means you have no access to it.

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Happy searching!

Dexterine Ho Soo Miang