CCL Command Language Searching

WYR (Year of publication)
Example: WYR=1638
WLN (Language)
Example: WLN=dan ( List of language codes .)
WMN (Music Publisher Number)
Example: WMN=M051351619
WMD (Time Period of Content)
Example: WMD=x1x3 (List of time period codes.)
WMF (Form of Musical Composition)
Example: WMF=co (List of musical composition codes.)
WMM (Number of Musical Instruments or Voices )
Example: WMM=wi01 (List of Number of Musical Instruments or Voices codes.)
WAU (All Authors)
Example: WAU=walter mare
WPE (Authors, Personal)
Example: WPE=lope vega
WMC (Music Composer)
Example: WMC=john playford
WMP (Music Performer)
Example: WMP=gerd zacher
WCO (Authors, Corporate)
Example: WCO=committee disarmament
WME (Authors, Conference or Meeting)
Example: WME=string processing
WUT (Uniform titles)
Example: WUT=rgveda
Example: WUT=thessalonians 2nd
WTI (Titles)
Example: WTI=fire ice
WTT (Title Page title)
Example: WTT=moby dick AND WPE=davis
WPL (Place of publication)
Example: WPL=koblenz AND WYR=17?
WPU (Publisher)
Example: WPU=dominics
WSE (Series)
Example: WSE=earth processes
WNO (All Notes)
Example: WNO=blind tooled
WTH (Thesis Note)
Example: WTH=yale 1896
WSU (All subjects)
Example: WSU=planetary
WSP (Subjects, Personal)
Example: WSP=melville AND WTT=moby
WSC (Subjects, Corporate)
Example: WSC=salem athenaeum
WSM (Subjects, Conference or meeting)
Example: WSM=everest expedition
WSF (Subjects, Uniform Title)
Example: WSF=pearl middle english poem
Example: WSF=ecclesiastes
WSG (Subjects, Geographic)
Example: WSG=pitcairn
Example: WSG=former soviet republics
WGN (Genre Term)
Example: WGN=parish histories
Example: WGN=catholic pamphlets
WLK (Linking Entry)
Example: WLK=Scottish literary journal
WRD (Almost all fields) WFM Format)
Example: WFM=se AND WFS=m (List of codes. 1)
WFS (Secondary Format)
Example: WFS=m AND WFM=bk (List of codes for secondary formats.)
WPD (Specific Material Designation)
Example: WPD=vf AND WLN=rus (List of specific material codes.) (How to use. 2)
WLC (LC Call number)
Example: WLC=Oversize and WCL=715Q
WSD (Call number, SuDocs)
Example: WSD=HE 22.2:H 34
WCL (Library collections)
Example: WCL=715Q
010 (Library of Congress Control Number)
Example: 010=95008747 (add enough zeros after the two year digits to make 6 digits following the year)
020 (ISBN)
(Example: 020=3534024419?) (must have question mark at end)
022 (ISSN)
Example: 022=1097-4806
035 (Local system number, including OCLC/WorldCat number)
(Example: 035=(OCoLC)00000123) (must have prefix and a total of 8 digits)
 

1

Format codes used with WFM

  • BK = Book
  • CF = Computer files
  • MP = Maps
  • MU = Music
  • SE = Serials
  • VM = Visual materials
  • MX = Mixed materials

2

The Specific Material Designation Code consists of two letters. The first is in the second column (the type of material is in the first column). For example, Videorecording="v". The second letter is listed in the third column. For example, videocassette="f". So the code for VHS cassettes is "vf."