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Library of Congress Call Numbers
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Book title: Discovering the Great Masters
Author: Paul Crenshaw
Call Number: ND1145 .C74 2009
Finding Books on the Shelf
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ND
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A, B, BF, C, L, LA, LB, LC, M, N...
1145
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.C74
The third line is the trickiest part of the call number! Read the letter alphabetically.
Read the number as a decimal:
.C524 will come before .C74 (read them as .C524 and .C740)
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2009
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1985, 1991, 2009...
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