Core Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group

Hello,

Please forgive me if this is a foolish question but when it comes to cataloging I am a total newbie.  

I have a book that has a copyright date of 2001 and the LCCN date is also 2001 but the call number has a 2002 date.  First of all, why would it have these different dates and secondly,  what dates should I use?  This doesn't seem like something that would be up to interpretation but after snooping at different library's catalogs it seems they have used the 2001 and 2002 dates in differing ways (i.e. listing copyright date as 2001 but putting 2002 on the call #)

This also got me wondering about the copyright date, LCCN, and call number in general.   Sometimes I see a bunch of dates and have wondered how it all works.   The materials I deal with are generally much more simple--thankfully!

I appreciate any help on this!  

Cheers!

Patti McCall-Junkin

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Patti McCall-Junkin
Librarian
U.S. Army
Sustainment University Library
Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC)
Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM)
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Hi Patti,

It might have a different year because the date of publication is different than the copyright date. I've been working on a lot of books recently that are the same title by the same author, so the copyright is the same, but the publisher is different so the 264  /2 $a City : $b Publisher, $c Publication date. You should use the publication date over the copyright date for cutters.

Here are some resources for cuttering:

https://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/0xx/050.html

https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd050.html

https://www.loc.gov/aba/publications/FreeCSM/freecsm.html (for this one, it's section G140 that explains the dates)

Best,

Kristina

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Kristina Yost
Library Technician
University of Miami
She/Her/Hers
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