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LOCAL CALL NUMBER PRACTICE WITHIN YRL CATALOGING: |
 | | Trying to maintain local cutters in the TRs and PN1997 means that many materials with otherwise-acceptable cataloging records are pulled out of an efficient, rapid workflow merely to require a higher-level staff member to assign a local alphabetic cutter based on the Cutter Sanborn table. |
 | | However, as with belles lettres, pulling a book out of the rapid process, assigning a local call number, rerouting it, then keying a special call number into the bibliographic record to replace the one that was already there adds a minimum of five minutes to the time it takes to process one of these books. |
 | | Because assigning local call numbers is dispersed through several levels of staff and many individuals, the savings associated with discontinuing local deviations from LC classification would be realized primarily through increased efficiency of the total process. |
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