[Publib] Dewey Decimal Classification

[Jeff Imparato]

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Sue Kamm <suekamm at mindspring.com> wrote:

>  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
> email:  suekamm AT mindspring DOT com
> blog: http://suekamm.blogspot.com
> "It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins
> in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the
> summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill
> rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone."
> -- A. Bartlett Giamatti, "Green Fields of the Mind."
>
>   ----- 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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Jeff Imparato, Reference Librarian
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
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