I understand from someone in our Institute of Maths & Physics that
sometimes there are "strategic" reasons for putting a mathematician in a
physics group for RAE/REF purposes or vice versa. Would LCC make any
impact on this? For our part we don't use any library subject
classifications at all in Aberystwyth, and so far have seen no ill
effect. I'd be very interested to hear views on the possible benefits -
weren't these classifications designed for shelf discovery? In an
increasingly inter-disciplinary age with full text indexing, what
benefits can they bring to us in repositories?
Thanks,
Talat
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ian Stuart
Sent: 17 June 2008 16:16
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Subject: Re: subject classification
Ian Stuart wrote:
> Ricky Rankin wrote:
>> More advice required to help us get setup correctly.
>>
>> I note that some IRs use the Library of Congress subject
>> classification. Do the academics make the selection or is this done
by
>> a library cataloger?
Actually, It should also be pointed out that EPrints.org ships with LCC,
whilst DSpace ships with a couple of Nordic classifications :)
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Ian Stuart.
Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team,
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The University of Edinburgh.
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