[DCRM-L] Does anyone else shelve STCs of the Pollard and Redgrave

Wed Oct 28 10:30:01 MDT 2026

At Houghton, we too have an obsolete STC class which was shelved by STC number.
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   1. Re: Does anyone else shelve STCs of the Pollard and Redgrave
      variety by STC number? (Matthew C. Haugen)

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The Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia also has a closed range of books in our vault that were shelved by STC number. They also have "Columbia Classification" (modified Dewey) assigned to them, with the STC number appended at the end.

On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 11:52?AM Person, Mary via DCRM-L <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
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> Hello Erin, Harvard Law School Library (specifically Historical & 
> Special
> Collections) uses STC and Wing numbers for (or as part of) some of our 
> call numbers. We have a large?some would say dizzying?array of 
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> Hello Erin,
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> Harvard Law School Library (specifically Historical & Special 
> Collections) uses STC and Wing numbers for (or as part of) some of our call numbers.
>  We have a large?some would say dizzying?array of classification systems.
> For better or worse.
>
> It's an interesting question. 'Would love to hear about other libraries.
>
> All the best,
> Mary
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> *Mary Person*
>
> *Rare Books Cataloger/Reference Librarian*
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> *Subject:* Re: [DCRM-L] Does anyone else shelve STCs of the Pollard 
> and Redgrave variety by STC number?
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> Hello Erin,
>
> Williams College does! The Chapin Library has classifications for STC, 
> Wing, and Shaaber, with a decimal system used to interpolate items 
> that weren't in the original bibliographies. However, there is a 
> longstanding practice of giving precedence to our Americana and 
> Science classifications over STC/Wing/Shaaber when items fit more than 
> one classification scope.
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> All best,
> Anne
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> On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 10:30?AM Erin Blake via DCRM-L 
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> Out of curiosity, does anyone know who else, besides the Folger, 
> shelves STC imprints by STC number? It came up because our ?STC Vault? 
> is the last remaining part of the vault collection that gets shelved 
> according to a classification system. We used to have dozens of 
> separate shelving classifications, most of which were ?closed? decades 
> ago. Now they?re all closed, with the exception of STC.
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> Thanks!
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> Erin
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