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Peer reviewedO'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
Peer reviewedMassey, Susan A.; Malinconico, S. Michael – Library Resources & Technical Services, 1997
Discusses cataloging policy at the University of Alabama libraries that allows the acceptance of LC (Library of Congress) classification call numbers from OCLC cataloging into the local database without shelflisting, and describes a study that measured error rates for locally unshelflisted samples to determine the disarrangement of the local…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Classification, Cost Effectiveness
Phillips, Dennis – 1988
Intended to provide a basic overview of the facilities and resources of the library on the Allentown Campus of Pennsylvania State University, this student workbook is designed to familiarize students with what is available to them in the library; to introduce them to skills likely to be used in varying degrees throughout life, regardless of what…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Higher Education, Information Sources
