Tag Archives: Library of Congress Classification

Classify

Posted on 9 July 2008 by Rick Mason

Classify is a new service from OCLC which returns class numbers (Dewey, LC, and National Library of Medicine) assigned to books in WorldCat. This could be a good way to use the “wisdom of the crowd” when you are not … Continue reading →

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LENS – University of Chicago

Posted on 19 December 2007 by Rick Mason

LENS is an AquaBrowser online catalog installation at the University of Chicago library that has just gone live, albeit in beta. It is an impressive catalog interface, showing what can be done with our existing cataloging, good software, and an … Continue reading →

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Subjects and Messes

Posted on 5 November 2007 by Rick Mason

Karen Coyle (again) has written a great post on the subject of the Dewey Decimial Classification system, the Library of Congress Classification system, and Library of Congress Subject Headings. She highlights what, to my view, is one of the major … Continue reading →

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