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Here at Leeds University Library, a small group is examining the feasibility of moving from the home-made classification scheme which is in use for the bulk of our stock to a standard scheme. Advantages would include spending less time on local classification and being able to ask suppliers to provide books in shelf-ready state. Disadvantages would include the costs of reclassifying and relabelling existing stock, or (if we decided against doing that) multiple-sequence problems for users. An examination of the percentage of incoming records from cataloguing utilities that contain Dewey and LC classmarks has led us to concentrate on LC as the best option. We have some idea of the average time spent on classification per book under our present system, and would like to know how long it takes to classify a book using LC. Note that we are only interested in classification time and not in the time spent allocating LCSH. If anyone has such information, or can point to a source, I would be most grateful. Please respond to me and I will post a summary to the list if there is any interest in the results. ***************************************************** Andrew Cooper, Planning and Projects Officer, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. Tel: 0113-233-5527 Fax: 0113-233-5561 mailto:[log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%