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Student Assistants: Guide to the Collections and How to Shelve Books: 4. Prefix Chart

Training guide for student assistants

Handout- Collection Prefixes

Collections - Prefixes

 

2nd Floor Collections: Prefixes

Prefix

Collection

Notes

 B

  Black Collection

On the left, as you come up the main stairs

No prefix

Main Collection

To the right of the Black collection. There are two sections: 001 to 600s and 700s to 900s.

J

Juvenile Collection

After the 900s in the Main Collection Shelves

J with the words “Big Book” on the call number.

Juvenile Collection

A very small collection of very large books is placed in a rolling cart near the Juvenile Collection.

This is the one collection that DOES NOT need to be put in call number order. It's a small browsing collection.

GRAPHIC NOVEL

Graphic Novels and Comics Collection

After the Juvenile Collection.

SCORE

Music Scores Collection

At the back of the 2nd floor, next to the large set of brown legal books

R (with a white spine label)

Reference Collection

Upstairs on the north wall by the double glass doors.

OS

Oversize Collection

By the Interlibrary Loan office. Shelves wrap around in a U-shape

SPEC

Special Collections

These are shelved by the Archives Dept. Put books on  Dr. West-White's book cart in Technical processing (1st floor).

ARCH. ARCX

Archives

same as SPEC books

1st Floor Collections: Prefixes

Prefix

Collection

Notes

 

     
  Various Course Codes  Reserves (also called     Course Reserves)  Books are located behind the Circulation Desk. Filed by course prefix and course number.
(Technical  Services staff adds new books to this collection).  New Books   An ever-changing informal selection of newly added books is shelved near the Circulation  Desk. Shelved by call number within each collection  (Main, Black, and Juvenile.) After several months books are shelved in their respective collection upstairs.

R (with yellow spine label)

Ready Reference

next to Reference offices downstairs

TS

Ask Staff for Assistance

Extra copies of books were removed from the Black Collection for space reasons and given the prefix TS. Shelved near the kitchen area in Technical Services.

Media

Academic Media

 

Media is not checked out too much anymore. Shelved on the wall opposite Ms. Houston's office.

BP

Bound Periodicals

Located on free-standing metal shelves in Technical Services

Revised 4/6/2024