Title: Library of Congress Classification 1: basic classmark construction
Abstract:The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is unusual among the general schemes in that it was originally a scheme intended for a single library, with no expectation that it would ever be used in an...The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is unusual among the general schemes in that it was originally a scheme intended for a single library, with no expectation that it would ever be used in any others. Today it is one of the two dominant classification schemes, certainly in the Western world (the other being the Dewey Decimal Classification). It's a popular choice for academic libraries, particularly university libraries, but also for specialist collections in some subjects. It is also used in one British public library (Edinburgh), but is more common in public libraries in the United States.Read More
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-07-05
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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