• Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
• Subject Cataloging Manual: Classification and Shelflisting

Information on MARC record coding, including what the fields and subfields mean and how to put information into the record. Also contains examples.

Useful if you need only a general idea of what the class number means or the differences between classes.

Used to verify or locate class numbers in the Library of Congress Classification. Also useful for looking up subject headings. More information about this will be coming in our classification training sessions.

Nice version of the table used for created Cutter numbers with LCC and the FC/PS8000 schedules. More information about this will be coming in our classification training sessions.

Used to verify or locate class numbers for the alternative Canadian History classification used at McMaster and other Canadian libraries.

Used to verify or locate class numbers for the alternative Canadian Literature classification used at McMaster and other Canadian libraries.

Note that PS8000 is for Canadian Literature in English. For Canadian Literature in French, use the same schedule as PS9000.

Useful for seeing what LC has put in a particular classification number, how they’ve catalogued a particular book, what they’re using as the series, etc. A good general place to look for examples.

Canadian union catalogue (a catalogue that contains holdings from multiple libraries). Useful when looking for records for Canadian publications not found in OCLC, how other Canadian libraries have treated a resource or series, or seeing how other Canadian libraries have classified a book in FC or PS8000/9000.

Create a free account on Amicus so that you can download MARC records (bib and authority). More on this later.