A shelf mark is the code showing where a book is kept. Note down the shelf mark.
It is a position rather than a description, which is why the same title can have different ones in different libraries. Without the shelf mark a book in a large library is effectively lost.
1nounshelf markThe code showing where a book is kept.
“He copied the shelf mark and still spent an hour looking.”
shelf mark is a code.
shelfmark comes from shelf + mark.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Libraries & Museums