LC Call Numbers - Too Long
What is this?
Library of Congress call numbers are made up of several components, and while some components such as cutters don't have a maximum length, common practice is to not have them get too long.
ND2920 .S45 1971 Rosenwald CollF459.L6 C76 Shelved as Lexington city directories
Where is the trouble?
A long call number may include extra unnecessary information that is not part of the call number.
A holdings record may have been constructed incorrectly, resulting in additional subfields such as notes being added to the call number.
A long call number may be a call number from some other scheme incorrectly marked as an LC call number.
How to Find
If you are in Alma, there is an analysis to search for this issue in the "Looking for Trouble" folder. Go to the "LC Call Numbers" folder and look for the "Too Long" analysis. This analysis finds call numbers greater than 30 characters long.