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Leibbrandt, Richard; Yang, Dongqiang; Pfitzner, Darius; Powers, David; Mitchell, Pru; Hayman, Sarah; Eddy, Helen – International Association of School Librarianship, 2010
This paper reports on a joint proof of concept project undertaken by researchers from the Flinders University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in partnership with information managers from the Education Network Australia (edna) team at Education Services Australia to address the question of whether artificial intelligence techniques could be…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Efficiency, Artificial Intelligence, Classification
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Maker, Richard – Australian Library Journal, 2008
This article argues that the classification of adult fiction according to "genre" in public libraries causes more confusion than clarification. Whilst the system purports to model itself on bookstore design, the reality is that the actual arrangement is quite different. In the bookstore model, genre is a marketing category and not a…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Public Libraries, Classification, Foreign Countries
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McKinlay, John – 1980
Despite some inroads by the Library of Congress Classification and short-lived experimentation with Universal Decimal Classification and Bliss Classification, Dewey Decimal Classification, with its ability in recent editions to be hospitable to local needs, remains the most widely used classification system in Australia. Although supplemented at…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, Dewey Decimal Classification, Library Collections