Literary Authors

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Literary Authors: AutoDewey and LC NameAuthority File

Dewey Breakfast/Update

ALA Midwinter Meeting

January 12, 2008


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Overview

LCs AutoDewey program in literature

Issues: Adding Dewey numbers to records for literary authors

in the LC Name Authority File


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LCs AutoDewey program in literature (1)

AutoDewey takes advantage of those places where Library of

Congress Classification (LCC) and DDC are similar enough to

facilitate mapping from LCC to DDC

AutoDewey is currently limited to

Individual literary authors

Poetry, drama, & fiction

English, French, & Italian literature


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LCs AutoDewey program in literature (2)

Where one-to-one mapping is possible, AutoDewey assigns

DDC numbers automatically, based on the LCC number

Where one-to-one mapping is not possible, AutoDewey

assigns the DDC number only after the cataloger has made

one or two decisions beyond assigning the LCC number

About form (poetry, drama, fiction)

About literary period

If AutoDewey choices are not right for a work (e.g., the form

is essays), a cataloger must assign the number


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One decision beyond assigning the LCCnumber

PS3550-PS3576 American literatureIndividual authors

1961-2000

811/.54 American poetry, 1945-1999812/.54 American drama, 1945-1999

813/.54 American fiction, 1945-1999


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Two decisions beyond assigning the LCCnumber

PS3500-PS3549 American literatureIndividual authors1900-1960

1900-1945

811/.52 American poetry, 1900-1945

812/.52 American drama, 1900-1945


1945-1999

811/.54 American poetry, 1945-1999

812/.54 American drama, 1945-1999



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Use only one literary period for an author and all of the

author's works, including works that may have been

published earlier or later than the dates covered by that

period. Determine the literary period in accordance withscholarly consensus about when an author flourished. . . .

In the absence of scholarly comment, use the weight of

bibliographic evidence to determine when an author

flourished. For example, class an author who publishedone novel in 1999, one novel in 2000, one in 2001, and

one in 2002 in the literary period beginning with 2000.

Literary periods: from the Manual at T3A


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WorldCat Identities (1)


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WorldCat Identities (2)


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LCs Decimal Classification Division has card files that give

the established literary period for literary authorscard

files not accessible by AutoDewey and not available to

catalogers who assign LCC numbers and use AutoDewey,unless they leave their work area and walk into the

Decimal Classification Division.

What is the best way to make that information available?

One possibility is to put that information in the LC Name

Authority record for the author.

Literary periods: LCs Dewey authority file


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LC name authority record example (1)

010 n 79060436

053 0 PS3535.O39

100 1 Roethke, Theodore, d 1908-1963

Meaning of LCC number excluding cutter (not given in name

authority record):PS3535.A-PS3535.Z American literatureIndividual

authors1900-1960R


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LC name authority record example (2)

010 n 50007725

053 0 PR9619.3.M32

100 1 McCullough, Colleen,d 1937-

Meaning of LCC number excluding cutter (not given in name

authority record):

PR9619.3.A-PR9619.3.Z English literatureEnglishliterature: Provincial, local, etc.English literature outside

of Great BritainAustraliaIndividual authors20th

century, A-Z


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083 field in MARC 21 authorities format

083 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER (R)

$a - Classification number elementsingle number or beginning

number of span (NR)

$b - Classification number elementending number of span (NR)

$c - Explanatory term (NR)

A phrase or term that specifies the topic of the

classification number when the heading is represented in

more than one place in the classification schedules.$z - Table identificationtable number (NR)

$2 - Edition number (NR)


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Literary period: How to specify in 083 field?(1)

In LCs Dewey authority file, an authors literary period

is shown in a way not appropriate for MARC 21

For Theodore Roethke 81X.54

For Colleen McCullough 82X.914

X represents the form

MARC Proposal 2008-01: Representation of the Dewey Decimal

Classification (DDC) System in MARC 21 formats has a $y

subfield that could be used to represent the literary

period without specifying form; for details seehttp://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2008/2008-01.html


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Literary period: How to specify in 083 field?(2)

Alternatively, give full number, including form?

For Theodore Roethke:

083 00 $a 811.54 $2 22

For Colleen McCullough:

083 00 $a 823.914 $2 22

Potential problem: people may think that number should be

used for every literary work by that author, even works in

a different form


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What other information would you like to seein the 083 field?

Use the subfield $c - Explanatory term to give information

about the meaning of the number, e.g., caption substitute

as in WebDewey?


083 00 $a 811.54 $c American poetry1945-1999 $2 22


083 00 $a 823.914 $c English fiction1945-1999 $2 22


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Literary authors: Comprehensive works

From the Manual at T3A:

Literary form

For comprehensive works, use the form with which an

author is chiefly identified, e.g., Jane Austen 823.7. If the

author is not chiefly identified with one form, use T3A8

Miscellaneous writings plus literary period plus notation 09

from the table at T3A81-T3A89, e.g., use 828.91409 for

a late-20th century English author who is equally famous

as a novelist, dramatist, and poet. For an individual work,

use the form in which the work is written.


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Comprehensive works information in LCsDewey authority file

In LCs Dewey authority file, an authors comprehensive

works number is identified by an asterisk

For Theodore Roethke 811.54*

For Colleen McCullough 823.914*


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Interdisciplinary works information in LCsDewey authority file

An authors interdisciplinary number may also be marked

with an asterisk

For Vaclav Havel

943.7043092*

891.86254 [* for belles lettres]


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How to indicate comprehensive andinterdisciplinary works information? (1)

Use the subfield $c - Explanatory term to specify the

comprehensive and interdisciplinary works numbers?


083 00 $a 811.54 $c Comprehensive works $2 22




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How to indicate comprehensive andinterdisciplinary works information? (2)

For Vaclav Havel

083 00 $a 943.7043092 $c Interdisciplinary works $2 22



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Give combined information? (1)

Use the subfield $c - Explanatory term to give information

about the meaning of the number and to specify the

comprehensive and interdisciplinary works numbers?


083 00 $a 811.54 $c American poetry1945-1999

(Comprehensive works) $2 22


083 00 $a 823.914 $c English fiction1945-1999



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Give combined information? (2)

For Vaclav Havel

083 00 $a 943.7043092 $c Czechoslovakia1968-1992

biography (Interdisciplinary works) $2 22

083 00 $a 891.86254 $c Czech drama1945-1989



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Information in name authority files: Summarylist of questions

To indicate literary period, give full number with form?

Give information about meaning of DDC number?

Indicate comprehensive and interdisciplinary worksnumbers?

Indicate both meaning of number and comprehensive and

interdisciplinary works numbers?

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