Hello,
I work at the English Faculty Library in Cambridge. We have an in-house
system which organises works geographically, by period and then by
author, with secondary criticism following immediately after the works
of the relevant author.
We don't have unique classmarks for our books, so all of Austen (for
example) would have had the same classmark, E 64 AUS. As you can
imagine, this means that there can be large sections of the library with
the same classmark, making it difficult to find the title you're looking
for. Over time, we're taking each of the major authors and adding more
numbers and letters at the end to break these sections down into volume
sets, anthologies, autobiographical works etc, and grouping different
editions of the same work together.
Niamh
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