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Why do some EAL call numbers start with numbers rather than letters?

April 26, 2017eal letters Numbers

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Why do some EAL call numbers start with numbers rather than letters?

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These are Harvard-Yenching call numbers. Before 1980 the C. V. Starr East Asian Library used the Harvard-Yenching classification system. After 1980 EAL began using the Library of Congress classification system, which was already being used by all other campus libraries.