Procedures for Shelflisting CYAC Material
Subject Cataloging | Children’s and Young Adults’ Cataloging Program (CYAC)
CYAC Program shelflisting does not adhere to standard shelflisting policies documented in the Classification and Shelflisting Manual and followed by the rest of Library of Congress. For English language juvenile titles cataloged by the CYAC Program in the Library of Congress classification range PZ5-10.5, we shelflist according to the following procedures.
Note that foreign language juvenile belles lettres in the range of PZ10.72-90 follow standard LC shelflisting procedures, and not the procedures below.
Procedures
Step 1: Use Library of Congress Cutter Table.
Step 2: Use a single cutter for the primary access point, assigning a number that allows the work to file alphabetically by primary access point. For simplicity’s sake, the following examples are not part of actual LC records:
[primary access point for author]
Terrell, Bob PZ7.T47
[primary access point for title]
Terrific shelflisters I have known PZ7.T48
[ignore initial articles in primary access point for title]
The terrifying cat ate my pajamas PZ7.T485
Terro, Bill PZ7.T49
Step 3: Add a work mark (work letter) for the title. The work mark is composed of the first two or three letters of the title, dependent on the following:
- If the second letter of the title is “a,” the work mark must be expanded to three letters.
- If a preferred title (MARC field 240, formerly called Uniform Title) is present, make the work mark for the title statement entry, not the preferred title access point.
- Disregard initial articles in the title access point when making the work mark.
- If there is a primary access point for title, do not add the work mark.
Examples:
Author: Bob Terrell
Title: Where are my dentures?
Call number: PZ7.T47 Wh
Author: Bob Terrell
Title: The cat ate Cheerios
Call number: PZ7.T47 Cat [2nd letter is “a;” must expand to three letters.]
Author: Bob Terrell
Preferred title: Chat noir
Title: The black cat
Call number: PZ7.T47 Bl
SPECIAL CASES FOR WORK MARKS
Title beginning with a one-letter word (disregarding the initial article "a"):
Example: I ate a meatball sub.
Work letters should start with “Ia.” A third letter is added for expansion, such as “Iah.”
The one-letter titles (starting with "I") should file before other titles, such as "Ice cream tastes good," or "Illnesses I have known" following LC filing order.
Title beginning with an Arabic number:
Titles beginning with Arabic numbers should file before titles starting with the letter A.
Example: "13 ways to have fun," files before "Ace Ventura, pet detective."
If the title begins with a number, use “Aa”, with a third letter expansion, such as “Aah.”
Repeated initial words in title:
If an author uses the same initial words of a title on various works, the letters used to place the titles in alphabetical order rapidly fall into meaninglessness, unless the author has paid attention to the alphabetical order of titles. In the sequence below it was not known in 1982 that other works would be titled beginning "My dog and..."
Example:
PZ7.A2615 Mu 1987 Adler, David A. My dog and the birthday mystery
PZ7.A2615 Mw 1986 Adler, David A. My dog and the green sock mystery
PZ7.A2615 My 1982 Adler, David A. My dog and the key mystery
Step 4: Add publication date:
Add the publication date or date listed in the publication field.
Examples:
Author: Bob Terrell
Title: The cat ate Cheerios
Boston : Little, Brown, 2010
Call number: PZ7.T47 Cat 2010
Author: no author listed
Title: The boy ate pie.
Pub. Date: 2015
Call number: PZ7.1.B69 2015
If another edition is published in the same year, the edition cataloged second receives the lower case “b” after the date. [Lower case “a” is reserved for facsimiles.] A third edition that year would have a “c” added, etc.
For example, if a large print edition of “The cat ate Cheerios,” is published after the Little, Brown edition above, but the publication date is still 2010, the call number for the large print edition would be PZ7.T47 Cat 2010b
Shelflisting Cautions
Mac and Mc Surnames
Prior to 1980, surnames beginning with Mc were cuttered as Mac. After 1980, the policy changed to “Cutter for what you see.” Today, the surname McDonald files after the surname Marino.
Preferred Title (24X)
The work mark should always be derived from the title, not the preferred title access point.
Translations
Translations from English into another language are not classified in the LC schedule “PZ7” for General Juvenile Belles Lettres. A Spanish translation of an English language children’s novel is classified in PZ73, with Spanish literature under its area for General juvenile belles lettres. Classification PZ73 consists of juvenile belles lettres written in Spanish, or bilingual books featuring Spanish as one of the two languages. Similarly, an English translation of a Spanish juvenile novel will class in PZ7 with the English juvenile literature books, and not with PZ73 with the Spanish literature.
Foreign Language Juvenile Belles Lettres PZ10.8+
Juvenile titles published in languages other than English are usually classified with other literature in that language schedule. Follow the instructions in Library of Congress Classification schedules.
