What is the call number?

Answer

 

The call number or classification number is the number you need to find a book on the shelf.  Books in UCC Library are organised in number order from 000s up to 999.

  • Books are organised on the shelves in call number order.
    • Q+1: 000s, 500s and 600s 
    • Q+2: 100s 200s 300s and 400s
    • Q+3: 700s 800s and 900s
  • When you search for a book on the catalogue, it gives you the call number.
  • It is on the spine of the book, followed by the first 4 letters of the author's surname.
  • Books with the same call number are about the same subject.
  • Books with different titles or different editions can have the same call number so make sure you get the book you want.

 

  • Last Updated Mar 09, 2020
  • Views 98
  • Answered By Anne O'Callaghan

FAQ Actions

Was this helpful? 0 0

Question not answered?

Your Info
Fields marked with * are required.
https://askus.booleweb.ucc.ie/borrowing/faq/170654
askus.booleweb.ucc.ie
CC-MAIN-2024-22
64953
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:LP4Z75GF4V2EHIW3Y75H3PU5LJYZ6HTK
<urn:uuid:3f13138e-a593-4e34-abe3-0c97402f4caf>
2024-05-30T04:05:39Z
52.50.179.240
text/html
sha1:XIOCVLJYDKDW57QP3G4YHB2S3AKSB4G6
<urn:uuid:eeaf6f0b-a22b-4e02-9d9e-abd9a1b34b5b>
https://askus.booleweb.ucc.ie/borrowing/faq/170654
response
<urn:uuid:9e54d9ea-ad1c-49aa-b563-c4142066d5bb>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2024-22
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for May 2024
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-22
software: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.5-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/