Assign Cutter numbers to manuscripts classed as WA MSS S- and shelved in the Wall Street stacks vertical files.
A cutter number is a call number extension used for interfiling by main entry, assigned based on either the last name of a personal name, the first word of a corporate name, or the first word of a title. A cutter number consists of the first letter of the main entry followed by a number, with these exceptions:
Title main entries beginning with the same word, such as “Letter to..” or “Letters to…” should have the same cutter.
Examples
Meriwether Clark C548
Spiro T. Agnew Ag63
Winfield Scott Sco86
Letter to… L569
To assign a cutter number:
Advanced search:
Keyword = [name] as a phrase within Author
Limit location: Western American, Yale Collection of (Brbl)
Limit type: Archives or Manuscripts
Advanced search:
[cutter] as a phrase within Holdings Keyword
Limit location: Western American, Yale Collection of (Brbl)
Limit type: Archives or Manuscripts
Examples
C548 has already been assigned: search C5481
C 548 and C5481 have already been assigned: search C5482
Folder labeling
Left label Cutter number
Right label Call number (incl. Cutter number)
Name. Title / Date
MFHD
Enter the Cutter number in ‡i as the last element in the unique number, with no punctuation.
Example
852 __ ‡a beinwa ‡h WA MSS ‡i S-1592 C548
Examples