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   General rule

   CUL catalogers add a notation to the call number of a book that is oversize. For what constitutes an oversize item for a given location, consult the Oversize chart.

   Use of oversize designation is in most cases determined by the largest size (i.e. height or width) of the item as it appears in the collation statement. For Olin and Uris, widths over 20 cm are considered oversized.
   

    

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   Exceptions
   
   • A supplement to a monograph should be put in the same size category as the monograph.
   • A work with an oversize atlas, or a multivolume work of variant sizes, should be put in its largest size category.
   • Each volume in a series classed together will keep the same size notation in the call number as those items in the series that have been previously cataloged; the same is true for multivolume works that are not received as a set. Newly received items in this third category should never result in a routine reclassification, for oversize purposes, of already cataloged pieces in the set. When necessary, Access Services Dept. staff will shelve a dummy in the stated location with the rest of the series/multivolume work, referring to the actual location of anomalously oversized parts of the set.

    

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   Adding the oversize symbol

   The position of the oversize symbol (+, ++, +++, tiny, #, flat, folio) in both the 852 field of the Mfhd holdings record and on the spine lable lablel of the item, varies depending on the location. See the Oversize chart.
   

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When assigning accession numbers to videorecordings and microforms in designated locations, catalogers should use the automated media shelflisting system, CLAMSS .

The first indicator of the 852 field for accession-type call numbers should contain an 8 to indicate "other scheme."

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