Subject Cutters

(6)Subject Cutters are assigned to materials according to the general guidelines for subject analysis.

Only one subject Cutter may be used in a call number.

A subject Cutter may be used with numbers ending in 1 or 6; or following a geographic Cutter with numbers ending in 2 or 7, 3 or 8, and 4 or 9.

If an item could be classed equally well in subject Cutter category A and in another subject Cutter category, the other subject Cutter category is always preferred.

Since subject Cutter categories are often more general than either the item in hand or the subject headings available there is not absolute correlation between a particular subject Cutter and a specific subject heading. There are, however, many subject Cutter/subject heading combinations that occur repeatedly (7)

General Class vs. Specific Area or Item:

Library of Congress Classification Schedule-Class G, Table IV includes subject Cutters for groups of features. Maps may depict the group as a whole or individual members of the group. Items showing the group in general are classed with the subject Cutter. Individual features are classed as themselves except individual railroads, which are always classed under P3. Examples:

Special Applications and Instructions:

See also:

Classification