Results 1 to 10 of about 238,425 (297)

Experiments in automatic Library of Congress Classification [PDF]

open access: bronzeJournal of the American Society for Information Science, 1992
This article presents the results of research into the automatic selection of Library of Congress Classification numbers based on the titles and subject headings in MARC records. The method used in this study was based on partial match retrieval techniques using various elements of new records (i.e., those to be classified) as “queries,” and a test ...
Ray R. Larson
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

Library of Congress Classification Numbers

open access: bronzeLibrary Resources & Technical Services, 2006
This study examined Library of Congress Classification (LCC)—based class numbers assigned to a representative sample of 200 titles in 52 American library systems to determine the level of consistency within and across those systems. The results showed that under the condition that a library system has a title, the probability of that title having the ...
Bhagirathi Subrahmanyam
semanticscholar   +5 more sources

Predicting Library of Congress classifications from Library of Congress subject headings [PDF]

open access: greenJournal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2003
AbstractThis paper addresses the problem of automatically assigning a Library of Congress Classification (LCC) to a work given its set of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). LCCs are organized in a tree: The root node of this hierarchy comprises all possible topics, and leaf nodes correspond to the most specialized topic areas defined.
Eibe Frank, Gordon W. Paynter
openaire   +4 more sources

Development of Mini Smart Library Direction System Incorporated with the Library of Congress Classification System: A case study of East African Libraries

open access: goldInternational Journal of Advances in Scientific Research and Engineering, 2021
This paper focuses on the development and implementation of a Mini Smart Library Direction System that is integrated with the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) System to facilitate easy book tracing in libraries.
Adol Dominic Majak Deng   +3 more
openalex   +3 more sources

The Foundations of Naval Science: Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power on History and the Library of Congress Classification System

open access: diamondCanadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2017
This article is a history of the creation of the Naval Science class within the Library of Congress Classification System (LCCS) during that system’s fashioning and development at the turn of the twentieth century.
Ellen E. Adams, Joshua F. Beatty
doaj   +3 more sources

Problems in Classification of Slavic Books with Library of Congress Classification Schedules

open access: diamondCollege & Research Libraries, 1967
Made available in DSpace on 2013-01-29T18:47:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) crl_28_04_277_opt.pdf: 2350163 bytes, checksum: fa1dc7df39f3dc3053043e7c5e87fd6c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1967-07 ; published or submitted for ...
Wasyl Veryha
openaire   +4 more sources

The Library of Congress, Dewey Decimal, and Universal Decimal Classification Systems are Incomplete and Unsystematic

open access: diamondEvidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2011
Objective – To determine the extent to which knowledge is currently addressed by the Library of Congress (LCC), Dewey Decimal (DDC), and Universal Decimal (UDC) classification systems.
Cari Merkley
doaj   +2 more sources

Library of Congress Classification for Judaica: Recent Changes (1995-1996)

open access: bronzeJudaica Librarianship, 2000
This column covers the additions and changes to the Library of Congress Classification made from January 1995 to December 1996 that are relevant to Judaica libraries. Most of the changes come under classes BM (Judaism), BS (Bible), DS (History of Asia), and PJ (Oriental philology and literature).
Ella Ruderman
openaire   +4 more sources

Library of Congress Subject Headings, Dewey Decimal Classification and the Ambiguity of Subject Representation of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in American Knowledge Organization Systems

open access: goldStudia Środkowoeuropejskie i Bałkanistyczne
The paper examines the classification and subject representation of the concepts of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in the context of the knowledge organization, especially historical ...
Marek Sroka
doaj   +2 more sources

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy