We use LC at the Boston Public Library too – we have a research library and a general library, which might be the case at Cleveland (can anyone confirm?) – the saying goes that LC works better for research collections, although perhaps that’s just a sacred cow we’ve all been holding on to?
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign uses Dewey for most of its collections, including the main stacks and the engineering and undergraduate libraries. A few of the departmental libraries use LC, but not very many. I am pretty sure that they are the largest Dewey library in the world, since they are one of the largest public university libraries in the world as far as size of collection.
Their Dewey numbers are HUGE!
I’ll be sure to mention both Boston and Cleveland when I teach LC Classification to my Cataloging I students later this semester.
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We use LC at the Boston Public Library too – we have a research library and a general library, which might be the case at Cleveland (can anyone confirm?) – the saying goes that LC works better for research collections, although perhaps that’s just a sacred cow we’ve all been holding on to?
Conventional wisdom says research collections are better served by LC but I’m not sure I’ve seen any that use Dewey, so who knows?
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign uses Dewey for most of its collections, including the main stacks and the engineering and undergraduate libraries. A few of the departmental libraries use LC, but not very many. I am pretty sure that they are the largest Dewey library in the world, since they are one of the largest public university libraries in the world as far as size of collection.
Their Dewey numbers are HUGE!
I’ll be sure to mention both Boston and Cleveland when I teach LC Classification to my Cataloging I students later this semester.