Full best practices at: https://alair.ala.org/handle/11213/18623
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If the title in hand does not have a call number, assign a call number under starting with the country of origin of the comic, then author. The countries listed below are ones we purchase in widely:
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A full number will be created as:
$a Comic_by_country_of_origin.Author last name _lastname_Cutter $b Title_Cutter Year
Ex of title: Mile end by Michel Hellman (a Canadian : I morti non prendono l'ascensore by Icaro Tuttle (Italian language graphic novel)
050 _4 $a PN6733PN6767.H45 T88 $b M54 2011M67 2023
Call numbers for nonfiction
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UM Science Graphic Medicine (USGM)
For all Use for science graphic novels and comics related to health or medicine
SEL is using a very broad definition of “health or medicine” so if we have a question about the location, we will need to reach out to Ellen Lutz directly to clarify
UM Science & Engineering Library (USGEN)
Use for science graphic novels about all other science topics that are NOT health or medicine
UM W.E.B Du Bois General Collections (UMGEN)
Use for all world language comics, except Chinese, Japanese or Korean
Do not put any graphic novels or comics into the Near East collection (UNEA), even if it is in a UNEA language
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