[Publib] Dewey Decimal Classification

[Sue Kamm]

My medium-sized library uses LC, and has done for more than 40 years.

IMO, LC is far more flexible than DDC.  Catalogers wdon't have to truncate numbers  The lett ers are part of the call number.

Take a look at CIP entries on the verso of the title page of a non-fiction book. LC provides both the LC and DDC classification numbers.  (They also classify fiction, which a public library won't wat to do.  The classification breakdown for fiction depends on the author's nationality, meaning British and American authors are classed separately.)

Your friendly neighborhood CyberGoddess and ALA Councilor-at-Large,
Sue Kamm
Los Angeles/Inglewood, CA
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: BStorck at aol.com 
  To: publib at webjunction.org 
  Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 5:43 AM
  Subject: [Publib] Dewey Decimal Classification


  Hello Folks - As you know Florida has had its share of great elected officials who think they know more than the library people about the running of libraries. Now we have one who says many libraries are doing away with the DDC and she thinks it is a waste of money for us to continue using that system. Question - how many of you have done away with the DDC and what are you doing instead?  Thanks-Bernadette Storck 
  BStorck @aol.com.





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