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Classification of Material in the Library: Shelf-order & Filing

Goals:This class will teach the basics of the Library of Congress (LC) classification system and how things are arranged using this system within HKUST Library.

Shelf-order & Filing

Understanding filing sequence is very important. The main trick is to think of the numbers in a Cutter number as if they are behind a decimal.
For example:

.B658 is smaller than .B7, just like 0.658 is smaller than 0.7

1. These are in proper order:

QA 
177 
.A4513 
1996
QA 
177 
.A53 
1992
QA 
177 
.A534 
1999
QA 
177 
.A79 
1997

 

2. These are in the wrong order. Can you spot the mistake?

HC 
427 
.W3 
1998
HC 
427 
.W35 
1994
HC 
427 
.W36 
1997
HC 
427 
.W355 
1996
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