It is not really so odd to have 2 different call numbers for different copies of the same item. We often have circulating and reference copies. The class and cutter numbers would stay the same but the prefix or suffix would vary. In other cases we have a map or other accoampying material that goes with a book but is housed in a seperate location. Once again the class and cutters would be the same but the pre or suffix would be different. I have also heard of cases when a work covers two topics for a library to give each copy a different class number so that folks browsing will find it in either place. I think that is less common, but it does happen. Sincerly, David Bigwood bigwood@lpi.usra.edu Lunar & Planetary Institute http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/whats_new.shtml Catalgoing News http://www.catalogablog.blogspot.com -----Original Message----- From: koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz]On Behalf Of paul POULAIN Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 3:37 PM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] LC number : solution in 2.2 Hi everybody, .... NOTE : why put the callnumber in items & not in biblio you may ask ? it's because some libraries may have 2 differents callnumbers for 2 items of the same biblio. Sounds silly (& quite old), but exists. And you can't ask a 100 000 items library to reorganize it's shelves ;-) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org) _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha