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Class Dispersion between the Library of Congress Classification and the Dewey Decimal Classification.

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O'Neill, Edward T.; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1987

Two statistical measures are used to compare the Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classification systems by applying them to the library science portions of the two systems using a database drawn from MARC records. It is concluded that the measures characterize two different properties of dispersion. (Author/EM)

Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Classification, Databases, Dewey Decimal Classification

Classification of Education and Research in Librarianship and Information Science. Report of a Project Submitted to the Board of Directors, Association of American Library Schools.

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Anderson, James D. – 1978

In order to provide access to individual educators and researchers in library science on the basis of their specializations and types of research, a project was undertaken to develop a Classification of Education and Research in Librarianship and Information Science (CERLIS). A review was conducted of the treatment of library science materials in…

Descriptors: Classification, Dewey Decimal Classification, Human Resources, Information Science