Call number and FRBR: A dialogue guided by principles of the Organization of Information

Abstract Call number plays a relevant role in libraries, since ordering of documents is configured as a proposal for reading collections, establishes the link between catalog entry and the place document occupies in the collection for access purposes and contributes to the collection management of space uses. From the late twentieth century, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions promoted studies that culminated in guidelines for documentary processes, products and instruments, notably Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records conceptual model. The purpose of this article is to analyze the construction of book number – the final part of call number – in association with attributes of the entities of Group 1 of Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. For theoretical foundation, it approaches works of Cutter, Barden, Lehnus, Satija and Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, as well as Moreno’s and Ortega. As a methodology, it performs exploratory research through literature review that results in the examination of the call number and the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records based on the decomposition of examples. It concludes by pointing out the actuality of call number as a workable model for ordering of documents and as a construction elaborated from principles that have correlation with Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records.