Shelver Applicant Test

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Section A

Look at the following of call numbers. If both call numbers in the pair are the same select Same. If they are different, select Different.

Example:	Same	HM 132 .G37	HM 132 .G37		Different	SF 5415.5 .F63	SF 5415.5 .F36

Question	Call Number 1	Call Number 1	Answer
1	AP101 .B89 A9 v.1.	AP101 .B89 A9 v.1
2	HQ721 .A8 1962	HQ721 .A8 1966
3	DS379 .B16 v.6	DS379 .B16 v.6
4	KJ3501 .H45	J3501 .H45
5	S262 .A8	SB262 .A8
6	LB1050 .K3 P19	LB1050 .K3 P19
7	TT2833 .H61	TT2833 .H16
8	PQ8456 .B321	PQ8456 .B321
9	FKL C78 .U7 L4	C78 .U7 L4
10	NK812 .J84 v.3	NK812 .J84 v.1
11	F83 .G8	F83 .H2
12	J1 .V6 P7	J1 .V6 R7
13	Z2634 .M2	Z2654 .M2
14	MN893 .W92	NM893 .W92

Section B

One of your many duties as a shelver will be to place books in call number order so that they may easily be reshelved. These exercises will give you some practice organizing books by their call numbers. In each of the ten separate exercises, arrange the call number from lowest to highest giving the lowest call number a number of 1 and the highest call number a number of 5.

Example:	(2) PN 12 .E3	(1) PN 1 .A8	(4) PN 58 .J6	(3) PN 14 .G17	(5) PN 203 .H2

Exercise 1:	E83.5 .L2	E18 .H9	E832 .J21	E738 .I9	E79.8 .G9
Exercise 2:	BR206 .A2693	BR206 .B4	BR206 .A3	BR206 .A27	BR206 .A2
Exercise 3:	Q523 .G31	Q23 .O8	Q32 .O8	Q526 .A9	Q632 .H9
Exercise 4:	PR803 .P56	PR803 .P65	PR830 .P56	PR813.5 .P56	P813.5 .P65
Exercise 5:	DT1261 .C26	DT1261 .B7	DT1261 .A9	DT1261 .E13	DT1261 .D94
Exercise 6:	JA102 .A213	JA102 .A21	JA105.5 .D3884	JA105.5 .D39	JA 106 .H2
Exercise 7:	GV201 .A8 B3	GV201 .B6 L9	GV201 .A8 Z2	GV201 .B6 M6	GV201 .A8 C4
Exercise 8:	PG269 .G4 A42	PG269 .G4 A3	PG269 .G4 A31	PG269 .G4 A285	PG269 .G4 A9
Exercise 9:	N103.5 .A31	N1036 .A28	N10 .H5	N503 .S8	N6901 .G4
Exercise 10:	JK210 .A9 1947 v.3	JK210 .A9 1962 v.1	JK210 .A9 1947 v.2	JK210 .A9 1947 v.1	JK210 .A9 v.2

Section C

Each of the following pairs of call numbers belong to a different floor. Examine each pair of call numbers and then select corresponding number to represents the floor the material belongs.

AP 1 .J5 v.84	GR 1256 .U7 I9	THESES SB 21 .E30

THESES BQ 7673 .P32	PER BQ 7673 .P32	PT 1155 .F68 v.2

PQ 7100 .D536 no.91-96	PG 3476 .T76 Z663	HN 20 .P2 F81

Cassiday PL 2250 .W48 v. 22-23	Ref. PN 7000 .B588	BL 1675 .A1 A25 v.22 c.3

Index Z 2495 .S73	DT 878 .Z9 R28 c.3	Gov. Pubs W 7.16/2: 71

OVERSIZE PA 2344 .Z5 C5	L 245 .A22	PQ 1452 .F23 R6 1988

REF PN 701 .J23	BX 234 .D86 H2	AC 5 .N349 T12

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