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

Bib Control links: pt 3 (LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Heading)

Using Library of Congress Authorities for subject headings at http://authorities.loc.gov/

You can browse and view authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations; and download authority records in MARC format for use in a local library system. This service is offered free of charge.

http://authorities.loc.gov/

Search Authorities

Help on Searching Authorities - Frequently Asked Questions

You may switch to the Library of Congress Online Catalog at http://catalog.loc.gov/
to search for and display catalog records for the over 12 million books
and other items in the collections of the Library of Congress.

Bib Control links: pt 1b (LCC: Library of Congress Classification)

Library of Congress Classification Outline

URL at LC gives a summary of main and subclasses

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/

"The files are also available for downloading in WordPerfect format (noted as WP version) and in Word format (noted as Word version).

A -- GENERAL WORKS - WP version - Word version

B -- PHILOSOPHY. PSYCHOLOGY. RELIGION - WP version - Word version

C -- AUXILIARY SCIENCES OF HISTORY - WP version - Word version

D -- WORLD HISTORY AND HISTORY OF EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, ETC. - WP version - Word version

E -- HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS - WP version - Word version

F -- HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS - WP version - Word version

G -- GEOGRAPHY. ANTHROPOLOGY. RECREATION - WP version - Word version

H -- SOCIAL SCIENCES - WP version - Word version

J -- POLITICAL SCIENCE - WP version - Word version

K -- LAW - WP version - Word version

L -- EDUCATION - WP version - Word version

M -- MUSIC AND BOOKS ON MUSIC - WP version - Word version

N -- FINE ARTS - WP version - Word version

P -- LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - WP version - Word version

Q -- SCIENCE - WP version - Word version

R -- MEDICINE - WP version - Word version

S -- AGRICULTURE - WP version - Word version

T -- TECHNOLOGY - WP version - Word version

U -- MILITARY SCIENCE - WP version - Word version

V -- NAVAL SCIENCE - WP version - Word version

Z -- BIBLIOGRAPHY. LIBRARY SCIENCE. INFORMATION RESOURCES (GENERAL) - WP version - Word version"

For more details, visit:

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/

You may also use:
http://catalog.loc.gov/

to look at Library of Congress Online Catalog to see how classification is being used.

Bib Control Links: pt 1a (Library classification)

* Library classification

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"A library classification is a system of coding and organizing library materials (books, serials, audiovisual materials, computer files, maps, manuscripts, realia) according to their subject and allocating a call number to that information resource. Similar to classification systems used in biology, bibliographic classification systems group entities together that are similar, typically arranged in a hierarchical tree structure. A different kind of classification system, called a faceted classification system, is also widely used which allows the assignment of multiple classifications to an object, enabling the classifications to be ordered in multiple ways." ...

for more details, visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_classification


* Dewey Decimal Classification
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC, also called the Dewey Decimal System) is a proprietary system of library classification developed by Melvil Dewey in 1876; it has been greatly modified and expanded through 22 major revisions, the most recent in 2003.^[1] This system organizes books on library shelves in a specific and repeatable order that makes it easy to find any book and return it to its proper place. The system is used in 200,000 libraries in at least 135 countries.^"...

for more details, visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification

http://www.oclc.org/dewey/resources/scholar.htm

Library of Congress Classification
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


"The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress. It is used by most research and academic libraries in the U.S. and several other countries. It is not to be confused with the Library of Congress Subject Headings or Library of Congress Control Number. Most public libraries and small academic libraries continue to use the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)."

"The classification was originally developed by Herbert Putnam in 1897, just before he assumed the librarianship of Congress. With advice from Charles Ammi Cutter, it was influenced by Cutter Expansive Classification, and the DDC, and was specially designed for the special purposes of the Library of Congress."

"The new system replaced a fixed location system developed by Thomas Jefferson. By the time of Putnam's departure from his post in 1939, all the classes except K (Law) and parts of B (Philosophy and Religion) were well developed. It has been criticized as lacking a sound theoretical basis; many of the classification decisions were driven by the particular practical needs of that library, rather than epistemological considerations."

"Although it divides subjects into broad categories, it is essentially enumerative in nature. It provides a guide to the books actually in the library, not a classification of the world."

for more details, visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Classification

* Library of Congress Subject Headings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Subject_Headings

* A portal to my Cataloguing Aids website: Cataloguing advice and links that serve the website of the same name

http://cataids.wordpress.com/?s=245+indicators