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Call Number Browse (Other Shelving Nos.)

Use this search to browse call numbers using an accession or other number besides the Library of Congress Classification System. These call numbers are not subject-based rather are identifying numbers specific to an item. To browse Library of Congress Classification System call numbers, use Call Number Browse (LC Classification No.).

A Call Number Browse (Other Shelving Nos.) search locates materials by their unique shelving numbers at the Library of Congress.
Call Number Browse (LC Classification No.) screen

Search complete or partial call numbers:

  • microfilm (o) 83/400 {complete} for The Eighteenth Century
  • lot 800 {partial} for a listing of images beginning with lot 800. (Non-LC Class Call Numbers have no relationship to the subject of the work.

NOTE:
Search limits are not available.
Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) are not available.

Call Number Browse (Other Shelving Nos.) Examples:

To Browse the Call Number . . . Enter . . .
Microfiche 2353 microfiche 2353
Newspaper Microfilm 1363 newspaper microfilm 1363
RCA Victor LPOM-1329
[call number for a sound recording]
rca victor lpom-1329
VAF 1873
[call number for a video]
vaf 1873
MMC-3715
[call number for a manuscript collection]
mmc-3715
LOT 805
[call number for a photograph]
lot 805
WMLC 0024/91
[call number for a serial: MLC cataloging]
wmlc 0024/91
YA 17339 YA Pam
[call number for an item in a pamphlet collection]
ya 17339
487 (microform guide)
[call number for a microform guide]
487 (microform guide)
LAW Canon Law
[call number for legal material: old catalog]
law canon law

Search Tips:

  • Punctuation and spacing matter. In general, punctuation and spacing should be entered as they appear in the catalog record.
    • In searches for call numbers containing slashes, parentheses, words and numbers: microfiche (w) 82/12.
  • Case does not matter.
  • Searches are automatically truncated; do not use the question mark (?) for truncation.
  • Do not use the Call Number search to locate U.S. government documents in the LC depository collection. To search by Superintendent of Document (SuDoc) number for publications that may be in that collection, use the index code K086 in Expert Search.
  • Do not use either Call Number browse method to search by numbers from classification schemes that are not used to shelve materials in the Library of Congress collections, e.g. the Decimal Classification (Dewey) and the National Library of Medicine Classification. Many Library of Congress Online Catalog records contain numbers from these and other classification schemes for the use of other libraries. Expert Search offers special indexes for searching the Online Catalog using numbers from these classification schemes.

Alternative Search Options:

To search the Online Catalog for Library of Congress Classification Numbers and other special shelving schemes from MARC 21 fields 050, 051, and 090, use Expert Search with the KCLA (Classification: LC) index.

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July 1, 2008