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Permalink Reply by Saswata De on October 24, 2013 at 17:36

ACCESSION NUMBER:

An accession number, also known as a catalogue number, is a unique number given to each new item that is acquired by a library. The numbers are typically in sequential order, and aren't usually used more than once, even if an item is removed or replaced within the collection, regardless of whether or not there is already an identical copy of the item in the library's holdings. As such, an accession number is helpful in distinguishing multiple copies of the same book, as well as different volumes (or editions) of the same title. 

BOOK NUMBER:

Book numbers are parts of call numbers, together with collection numbers and class numbers. Book numbers come at the end, and arrange books about the same subject so that they can be given useful order on the shelf and a unique location in the collection. The collection number, if used, indicates a major grouping within a library or library system, e.g. REF for reference or J for the juvenile collection. The class number of a book tells what it is about, but many books can be about the same thing and share the same class number. Book numbers are different for each book having the same class number and will make the full call number completely individual.¹ Just as different classification schemes lead to different class numbers, so do the different book number systems lead to incompatible book numbers.

CALL NUMBER :

A call number is a unique code that has been assigned by a cataloguer to an item and that is affixed to both the inside and outside of the item. This number is used in the bibliographic record for that specific item, it identifies which copy it is (particularly when more than one copy of an identical book is present), and it indicates the relative location of the item on the shelf. 
Usually, a call number is created by using the classification number (from either the Library of Congress Classification System or the Dewey Decimal System) for the title, followed by additional information to indicate such things as publication date, volume number, copy number, and/or location symbol. 

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Permalink Reply by Nusrat Zaheer on October 24, 2013 at 17:54

Accession Number-Sequential number assigned to each record which indicates the order of its acquisition

Call Number-Consist three element-Class number+Book number+Collection number

Book number-The first three letters from surname of the author.

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Permalink Reply by suraj panigrahi on October 24, 2013 at 18:31

What is collection no.

 

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Permalink Reply by S.B.Sharma on October 24, 2013 at 19:04

Collection no. means a unique identification remarks that indicate the type of collection whether is it reference collection, general collection, and special collection for exmple for Reference collection we can assign REF after that classification number then book no, 

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Permalink Reply by Muhammad Muzzammil on October 24, 2013 at 18:43

Accession No is the no of access of document in library e.g. 874340, 874354, 768945

Book No is the no of book of same title e.g. K98S

Call No is class no+ book no e.g. A Student's Manual of Library and Information Science

call no is will be for this title 020 K98S

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Permalink Reply by Mahendra.H.B on July 20, 2017 at 22:33

K98S, I can't understand that meaning that term, I mean K & S is what?

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Permalink Reply by Qalandar Baba on October 24, 2013 at 20:12

Bundle of Thanks All of You....

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Permalink Reply by Adilakshmi R on October 25, 2013 at 13:49

Dear Friend,

Accession number is the combination of book number and the classification number

Book number is  three letters of the author's sirname + one letter of the second author(if the second author is there) along with the classification number.

Eg.:  Management  by Kotler 650

                                                  KOT

Classification number is the class number i.e. here 650

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Dillip Kumar Sethy on January 19, 2018 at 0:25

how it is.? confusing. how accession no is 

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