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News, Announcements

• Revised Classification and Shelflisting Manual Instruction Sheets (April 29, 2013)
• Subclass G (Cartographic Materials): Geographic Cutter Numbers (Tables G1548-G9804) (December 5, 2012)
• Subclasses KBM (Jewish Law) and KBP (Islamic Law): Notes on Design and Suggested Use of the Schedules (July 20, 2012)
• Library of Congress Classes JZ and KZ: Historical Notes and Introduction to Application Errata (December 17, 2010)
• Revision to the Classification Span for the Iraq War (January 28, 2010)
• New Edition of Classification and Shelflisting Manual (February 19, 2009)
• Uniqueness of Call Numbers Assigned by the Library of Congress (November 3, 2006)
• Obsolete and Optional Numbers in the Library of Congress Classification (November 3, 2006)
• Subclass G (Cartographic Materials): Special Instructions and Tables of Subdivisions for Cartographic Materials (May 6, 2002)

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