LC Tables P-PZ42 and P-PZ43

[Shirley Williams]

We are beginning to reclassify our Dewey 800s (literature) to LC Classification P. We have Class Web, LC's Classifcation and Shelflisting Manual and Lois Mai Chan's A Guide to the Library of Congress Classification. My question is how to classify literary criticism of a particular work of an author who has one Cutter number.

On p. 370 of Chan's book she gives the example of a work about Kurt Vonngeut's Slaughterhouse-five and says to use the successive element 3 based on Table P-PZ42. This is the only example I have seen and the only reference I have found to this table. Can this table be applied whenever it seems appropriate, without the need of specific instructions to do so? In the absence of specific instructions, how do I know when to use table P-PZ42 and when to use P-PZ43? Both designed for a separate work and use three Cutter numbers.

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[J. McRee Elrod]

Can this table be applied whenever it seems appropriate ...

Which table is used depends of whether the work has one number (Table
P-PZ41), the author has one number (P-PZ31), the work has a Cutter
(P-PZ43), or the author has a Cutter (P-PZ38).

There are are also tables for the less common situation of authors
with 49 numbers (P-PZ31), 19 numbers (P-PZ32), 9 numbers (P-PZ33), 5
numbers (P-PZ34), 4 or 5 numbers with the schedule telling you which
in the case of 4 (P-PZ35), or 2 numbers (P-PZ36).

A criticism of a work should stand beside and after the work. A
criticism of the author;s work as a whole usually stands after
individual works.

I would suggest searching the work as a subject in the LC online
catalogue to see how criticisms of that work have been classed. (I
find it easiest to search the title of the work as subject key word,
to avoid keying the author's dates.) If the criticism you are
classing has not had a criticism classed by LC for that work, search
another author or work having the same number of class numbers or
Cutter, and see how it was done. Monkey see, monkey do, works for me.


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[Shirley Williams]

Thank you, Mac. Table P-PZ38 makes no provision for literary criticism of
a particular work of an author. So here is what I think you are saying:

If the Library of Congress has not cataloged the criticism I am working
with but has cataloged other criticisms of specific works of that author, I
would just see what the Library of Congress has done with them and make
mine follow the same pattern. If not, try to find another similar example
to follow.

I wish the tables had been more specific. Currently, writers are being
given just one Cutter and this leaves literary criticism about their
specific works without much structure.

Shirley Williams

Post by J. McRee Elrod

Can this table be applied whenever it seems appropriate ...

Which table is used depends of whether the work has one number (Table
P-PZ41), the author has one number (P-PZ31), the work has a Cutter
(P-PZ43), or the author has a Cutter (P-PZ38).
There are are also tables for the less common situation of authors
with 49 numbers (P-PZ31), 19 numbers (P-PZ32), 9 numbers (P-PZ33), 5
numbers (P-PZ34), 4 or 5 numbers with the schedule telling you which
in the case of 4 (P-PZ35), or 2 numbers (P-PZ36).
A criticism of a work should stand beside and after the work. A
criticism of the author;s work as a whole usually stands after
individual works.
I would suggest searching the work as a subject in the LC online
catalogue to see how criticisms of that work have been classed. (I
find it easiest to search the title of the work as subject key word,
to avoid keying the author's dates.) If the criticism you are
classing has not had a criticism classed by LC for that work, search
another author or work having the same number of class numbers or
Cutter, and see how it was done. Monkey see, monkey do, works for me.
{__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/
___} |__ \__________________________________________________________

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