Guidelines for suffixing


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Guidelines for Suffixing
Author/editor
 * Use first 3 letters of surname e.g. Red roses for Jenny edited by Sean Dorman = DOR


 * If no personal author/editor use first 3 letters of title e.g. Regulatory reform in Mexico’s gas sector = REG

Corporate author
 * Use first 3 letters of title e.g. Wood engineering handbook by Forest Products Laboratory = WOO

Conferences
 * Use first 3 letters of conference name e.g. Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Parallel Processing = PAR
 * However for a conference with an editor use the first 3 letters of the editor’s surname e.g. Proceedings of the metallization of compound semiconductors edited by H. H. Lee = LEE

Computer language
 * Arrange by name of program or operating system etc. only when instructed by Dewey e.g. Java and object orientation by John Hunt = 005.133 JAV
 * However, Object-oriented systems analysis using UML by Simon Bennett = 003 BEN

Biographies
 * Use first 3 letters of subject (whom the book is about) when a class. number ends in 092 e.g. The correspondence of Edmund Burke / R. B. McDowell 941.073092 = BUR

Translations and original authors
 * Use first 3 letters of original author e.g. Lippincott’s research survival guide by Ann Marttinen Doordan = LIP

Names with prefixes (eg. Von, Van, de Valera, du Maurier)
 * Use first 3 letters of author, as they appear in the 100/700 fields in a record

Literary criticism of an individual author (applies only in classification 800s)
 * Use first 3 letters of subject (whom the book is about) /first letter of author e.g. Conversations with James Joyce by Arthur Power = 823.912 JOY/P

Shakespeare
 * Plays by Shakespeare (including criticism of plays) are treated differently to other authors in literature.
 * Shakespeare's plays have a class. number of their own - 822.33 and therefore we do not need to use the suffix SHA to keep his works together.
 * Works about Shakespeare should have the first 3 letters of the author or editor's name as a suffix e.g. Shakespeare and the traditions of comedy by Leo Salingar = 822.33 SAL
 * Single plays by Shakespeare have the first 3 letters of the name of the play as a suffix, e.g. Romeo & Juliet = ROM
 * Criticism of a play has the first 3 letters of play/author’s surname e.g.822.33 ROM/K
 * Collections of plays should have the first 3 letters of the title as suffix e.g. Complete works = COM
 * His sonnets go to 821.3 SHA. Works about both plays and sonnets are treated as 822.33

Single films
 * Arrange (as instructed by Dewey) by title of film e.g. One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest = 791.4372 ONE

Irish names on any material
 * Drop the O, Ni, Mac, e.g. An Droichead go dti an duibheagan by Padraig O Snodaigh = 941.7082 SNO;  Introduction to chemistry by Nuala Nic Bheineid = BHE

Music Multimedia
 * Control numbers for music multimedia (CDs, DVDs etc.) differ from those of books. The control number always begins with R and incorporates both letters & numbers e.g. RGLCD001.
 * When classifying music multimedia drop the R and put a space between the letters and numbers e.g. Music Multimedia GLCD 001

TRC
 * Use LEA or JUN for broad works on curricula, Leaving or Junior Certificate exams and syllabi
 * Broad works on curricula e.g. Review of the Leaving Certificate curriculum = 373.19 LEA
 * Exam papers go with their subject e.g. Leaving Certificate German papers = 430.076 LEA
 * Syllabi/curricula go with their subject e.g. Junior Certificate German syllabus = 430.0712 JUN

Cookery Books
 * All cookery books have the sequence Popular Reading and the suffix COO. They do not require a class number. E.g. Neven cooks = Popular Reading COO

Series needing to be shelved together
 * If two or more books belong together e.g. accompany a video, part of the same course, rather than separating them under author suffixes, use series title.
 * e.g. KON Kontakt Deutsch, Kursbuch, Beiheft etc.

Diacritic on names
 * When writing out a suffix, leave out any diacritics, e.g. Müller > MUL  NOT MÜL

Most important element of suffixing is that the OPAC, the inside and outside cover on the item all match.
Reviewed: 24/11/06 CDB