After the Inglewood (California) Public Library converted its adult subject collection to Library of Congress, it developed an adapted LC classification for children's materials based on a two letter scheme followed by one or two numbers. In use for over five years, it makes materials easy to locate and prepares children for transition to adult…

Presents a brief history of the Library of Congress (LC) Z schedule and recent LC modifications in the treatment of subject bibliography. Description of a university library system includes a schedule for political and social sciences subject bibliography (Z7161-7166) giving alternate class numbers for systematic placement of bibliographies. (17…

Provides a portrait of the structure of the categories and tests the correlation between family resemblance and prototypicality of items. (Author)

Present work in classification is surveyed, and four major unsolved problems and 12 research problems are outlined. (PF)

It is argued that English dictionaries currently provide evaluative information in addition to descriptive information about the words they contain, and that this aspect of dictionaries should be developed and expanded on. First, the historical background and distribution of the axiological parameter in English-language onomasiological…

The author describes his meetings with Henry E. Bliss originator of an influential classification system.

Clustering and other new techniques have changed classificatory principles and practice in many sciences. Discussed are defintions, purposes of classification, principles of classification, and recent trends. (Author/RH)

Describes a system of classification to describe alphabets and to show the various degrees of formal similarity which they bear to one another. (TO)

Describes an automatic procedure which uses the syntactic relations as the basis for grouping words into classes. It forms classes by grouping together nouns that occur as subject (or object) of the same verbs, and similarly by grouping together verbs occurring with the same subject or object. (Author)

Six spatial and three typographic coding systems were used to give 18 different styles of presentation for bibliographies. (Author)

Goffman's indirect method and a MeSH tree structure were used to classify a set of 109 medical documents. (PF)

A look at The London Education Classification, based on facet analysis, and has also been used as the basis for a thesaurus which was the English contribution to the multilingual thesaurus compiled for the EUDISED project of the Council of Europe. (Author)

A new classification is needed which would not prejudge the boundaries of art, one that would bring together in one place the literature on every sort of material artefact, tool, and artwork, without distinction. Within this grand class of artefacts, the sub-arrangement would, as far as possible, respect the integrity of individual cultures. Only…

Arguing for a "taxonomic approach" to the determination of the meaning of "rhetoric," this paper first indicates the need for renewed speculation about the ordering of knowledge as a whole. It then indicates the importance of general taxonomies for understanding rhetoric, illustrates its position with a pair of modern taxonomies, and concludes by…