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Re: [Koha-devel] Some thoughts about the "Dewey" field (was: W
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Saiful Amin |
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Re: [Koha-devel] Some thoughts about the "Dewey" field (was: What's a "Dewey"?) |
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Thu Nov 28 09:14:03 2002 |
<quote who="Andrew Arensburger">
> Naive question: does LC indicate the topic, just like Dewey?
> Or is it more generally a code that tells you where to find a given
> book?
> If the LC ultimately determines the physical location of a
> given book, then its purpose is different from the Dewey code: books
> with similar call numbers would be close to each other on the shelf,
> whereas books with similar Dewey numbers would be close to each other in
> the catalog.
The LC call number *does* represent the topic. It uses mixed notation, ie,
both alphabets and numbers. It starts with an English capital letter.
Each letter represents a discipline.
Saiful
DRTC
Bangalore, India.
- [Koha-devel] What's a "Dewey"?, Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso, 2002/11/28
- Re: [Koha-devel] What's a "Dewey"?, paul POULAIN, 2002/11/28
- [Koha-devel] Some thoughts about the "Dewey" field (was: What's a "Dewey"?), Ambrose Li, 2002/11/28
- Re: [Koha-devel] Some thoughts about the "Dewey" field (was: What's a "Dewey"?), paul POULAIN, 2002/11/28
- Re: [Koha-devel] Some thoughts about the "Dewey" field (was: What's a "Dewey"?), Tonnesen Steve, 2002/11/28
- Re: [Koha-devel] Some thoughts about the "Dewey" field (was: What's a "Dewey"?), Andrew Arensburger, 2002/11/28
- Re: [Koha-devel] Some thoughts about the "Dewey" field (was: What's a "Dewey"?), Ambrose Li [CCCGT], 2002/11/28
- Re: [Koha-devel] Some thoughts about the "Dewey" field (was: What's a "Dewey"?), Saiful Amin, 2002/11/28
- Re: [Koha-devel] Some thoughts about the "Dewey" field (was: What's a "Dewey"?), Ambrose Li, 2002/11/28
- Re: [Koha-devel] Some thoughts about the "Dewey" field (was: What's a "Dewey"?), Andrew Arensburger, 2002/11/28
- Re: [Koha-devel] Some thoughts about the "Dewey" field (was: What's a "Dewey"?),
Saiful Amin <=
- Re: [Koha-devel] Some thoughts about the "Dewey" field (was: What's a "Dewey"?), Ambrose Li [CCCGT], 2002/11/28
- Re: [Koha-devel] Some thoughts about the "Dewey" field, Saiful Amin, 2002/11/28
- Re: [Koha-devel] Some thoughts about the "Dewey" field, Ambrose Li, 2002/11/28
- Re: [Koha-devel] Some thoughts about the "Dewey" field (was: What's a "Dewey"?), Ambrose Li [CCCGT], 2002/11/28