30 Minutes on Navigating Call Numbers
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Abbie Weil, aweil1
Outreach Librarian
Agenda
Library classification systems
- Library of Congress
- Dewey Decimal
- Moody, Moys Classification Scheme (law libraries)
- Old Widener/Harvard
Other ways of organizing books?
Other classification systems?
Library of Congress
Background
LoC classification system established by librarians in 1897 for national collection.
Replaced idiosyncratic system created by Thomas Jefferson.
LoC - oldest federal cultural institution, 2nd largest library collection in the world.
- What does J cover?
- Where is psychology?
- Where is the range broad?
- Where is the range limited?
- How does the system express values?
Take a look
Anatomy of a Call Number
TX803.P8 P68 2008
class number
2 letters + number
Cutter number(s)*
year
*another idiosyncratic system!
Go one element at a time
Go one element at a time
Keep in mind
Go one element at a time
- Look up a book
- Get the call number
- Find the right floor
- Find the right row
- Find the book
- Bring it back to share
Ok, your turn!
Keep in mind
Questions?
Questions about library resources, library school, how can we possibly organize human knowledge?
Email me, aweil1
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30 Minutes on Navigating Call Numbers
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