The LCC is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress. It is used by most research and academic libraries in the U.S. and several other countries, for example, Australia and Taiwan, R.O.C.. It is not to be confused with the Library of Congress Subject Headings or Library of Congress Control Number. Most public libraries and small academic libraries continue to use the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC).
Listed below are the letters and titles of the main classes of the Library of Congress Classification.
Dewey Decimal Classification System (DDC)
The DDC attempts to organize all knowledge into ten main classes. The ten main classes are each further subdivided into ten divisions, and each division into ten sections, giving ten main classes, 100 divisions and 1000 sections. DDC's advantage in using decimals for its categories allows it to be purely numerical, while the drawback is that the codes are much longer and more difficult to remember as compared to an alphanumeric system.
Classes listed
The system is made up of seven tables and ten main classes, each of which are divided into ten secondary classes or subcategories, each of which contain ten subdivisions.
The tables are:
- standard subdivision
- areas
- subdivision of individual literatures
- subdivisions of individual languages
- racial, ethnic, national groups
- languages
- persons
The classes are:
- 000 – Computer science, information and general works
- 100 – Philosophy and psychology
- 200 – Religion
- 300 – Social sciences
- 400 – Language
- 500 – Science (including mathematics)
- 600 – Technology and applied Science
- 700 – Arts and recreation
- 800 – Literature
- 900 – History, geography, and biography
Link
- Library of Congress website
- British Library
- Thai National Library
- Sripatum University Library
- ASEAN Community Website
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification
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