Most call numbers have four basic parts :
Title: Price control under fair trade legislation
Author: Ewald T. Grether
HF Commerce
5415 Business → Marketing → General works
.G67 Cutter number for Grether
1939 Year of publication
But there are other lines that call numbers can include. For example:
Title: More West Highland tales
Author: John Francis Campbell
PB Modern languages. Celtic languages
1645 Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic, Erse) → Literature → Folk literature
.C26 Cutter number for Campbell
v.1 & v.2 Volume 1 and Volume 2
Title: Louisbourg portraits : life in an eighteenth-century garrison town
Author: Christopher Moore
F History : America (numbers 1001-1145.2) - British America (including Canada)
1039 Nova Scotia. Acadia
.5 Cities, towns, etc., A-Z
.L8 Louisbourg
M66 Cutter number for Moore
1982 Year of publication
Title: The sun also rises
Author: Ernest Hemingway
PS American literature
3515 Individual authors → 1900-1960 → H
.E37 Author's number, using second letter (hEmingway)
S8 First word in title after The
1954 Year of publication
Title: Almanac of the 50 states
REF Library Reference collection
HA Statistics
203 Statistical data → By region or country → America → United States → Serials
.A5 Title
1996 Year of publication
