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Policies & Procedures
About the Unit
General Purpose
One of the goals of the Stanford Redesign is to move new materials to the shelf,
and hence, to the patron, as soon as possible. This goal is easily
achieved for materials for which copy with usable call numbers can
be found upon receipt. The remaining materials with no copy or copy
without usable call number are to be cycled through Marcadia
- an automated searching service. The function of the Classification
Unit is to assign call numbers to these materials that would otherwise
lack call numbers so that they can be quickly processed and moved
to the shelf. When copy is received via Marcadia for an item, the
acquisition record in the catalog can be automatically overlaid
with the fuller bibliographic record, using matching control numbers,
and the book need not be handled again.
Scope
All materials that lack a call number upon receipt, including the ones with valid LC subject headings but no usable call numbers, are routed to the Classification Unit except:
- Audio-Visual materials
- Computer files
- Materials for Special Collections Library, Music Library, and Branner maps
- Microforms
- U.S. government documents, UN documents
- Monographs of the following types: Slavic belle lettres, variant editions.
- Monographs without valid LC subject headings: Chilean
imprints, rush and priority requests, reference materials
Last modified:
October 16, 2007 |
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