Morning all,

 

I’ve recently taken over as librarian in a small mental health library within a mental health NHS trust.  Our current book stock (about 7000 titles) is classified using two classification schemes – one developed in house used for the bulk of the collection, and a smaller section of books classified using NLM classification.  I have been asked to consider transferring the whole collection onto one, nationally recognised scheme, but NLM looks a bit too general for our very specialised collection. Is there anyone out there running a similar sort of library and using NLM classification?  Do you find it adequate for your needs?  Also, I’d be very interested to hear from anyone using other classification scheme – what do you use? Why? Does it generally do the job?

 

Any help or advice would be very gratefully received.

 

Vicky

 

Vicky Wiseman

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Librarian

Library - Duncan MacMillan House 
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust 
Porchester Road 
Nottingham NG3 6AA

Telephone: 0115 969 1300 ext. 40760 
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