The Government Documents Classification has been developed locally to represent jurisdictions and subordinate governmental agencies by combinations of letters and numerals. For instance, L represents Canadian Provinces, L19 designates New Brunswick, and L19EA17 is the New Brunswick Department of Agriculture.
Government Documents call numbers are used with materials in the location, HIL-GOV, and in some other locations associated with the Government Documents, Data and Maps Department.
Here is an example of a Government Documents call number as it appears in a UNB WorldCat record:
TIB9 W927be 1991
On the book spine this call number appears as:
TIB9
W927be
1991
The first line is read as an alphabetic sequence followed by a numeric sequence. The second line is similar to comparable lines in Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal call numbers. It is read character by character. The last line is a date line and files numerically.