{"id":69,"date":"2012-05-22T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/?p=69"},"modified":"2012-05-22T11:07:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T15:07:00","slug":"call-cutter-what-does-it-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/call-cutter-what-does-it-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"Call #? Cutter? What does it mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A call number is a group of numbers and letters put together to tell you where you can find your book, DVD, map, or (sometimes) journal in the library. A call number is located at the bottom of the book spine. To find a call number for a book, you have to look it up in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.mcgill.ca\/F\/\" target=\"_blank\">our online catalogue<\/a><\/strong>. Call numbers serve two purposes: first, they provide a <strong>unique location \u201caddress<\/strong>\u201d, for every item within the library; second, they <strong>group items by subject<\/strong>, so that when you browse the shelves, you will find books on the same subject next to each other.<\/p>\n<p>Call numbers are assigned not randomly but according to a classification system. In the Law Library, we have books in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Library_of_Congress_Classification\" target=\"_blank\">Library of Congress (LC)<\/a> (at the 1 &#8211; 5 floors) or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cutter_Expansive_Classification\" target=\"_blank\">Cutter <\/a>(in the basement) classification systems. It can be difficult to understand LC call numbers if you are not used to them, so you may wish to take a look at this small <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mFzQbknKJM4\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>video<\/strong> <\/a>that could help you to read a LC call number.<\/p>\n<p>You may have noticed that in the Law Library, the majority of books have a call number that starts with K. This is due to the fact that letter K is assigned to \u201claw\u201d as a subject in the LC classification system. Any letters and numbers that you see after K denote a specific sub-subject, e.g. <em>KE 470- 474<\/em> groups books on<em> Law of Canada &#8211; Conflict of laws.<\/em> You can consult this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/sites\/mcgill.ca.library\/files\/expanded_library_of_congress_call_number_classification_system_2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tip-Sheet<\/strong> <\/a>to see the break-down of the class K by topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A call number is a group of numbers and letters put together to tell you where you can find your book, DVD, map, or (sometimes) journal in the library. A call number is located at the bottom of the book &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/call-cutter-what-does-it-mean\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[14,15],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-research","category-library-services","tag-borrowing","tag-services-for-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/lawlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}