Thomas Jefferson collected several thousand books during his lifetime. He organized his collection with a library classification scheme roughly based on a classification of knowledge by Francis Bacon.

If you studied engineering, then the numbers 620 through 629 may sound very familiar to you. They’re the Dewey Decimal Classification system’s designation for engineering subjects. The Dewey Decimal ...

SLCC’s library plans to switch from the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) to the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) by the beginning of this fall. A small section at the Miller Campus library ...

Chicago—ALA Editions announces a new iteration of our popular eCourse, Using and Understanding Library of Congress Classification. Robert Bothmann will serve as the instructor for a 4-week facilitated ...

Several decades of research at UCL developing a facet-based classification system for knowledge organisation has led to changes in the approaches taken by major library classification systems, ...

Chicago—ALA Publishing eLearning Solutions announces a new iteration of our popular eCourse, Using and Understanding Library of Congress Classification. Robert Bothmann will serve as the instructor ...