Beverley Hixon
Deputy Librarian
John Jamison
Library
Postgraduate Centre
Wexham Park Hospital
Slough
SL2 4HL
Tel:01753 634190
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From: Stock Sara (RDE) Essex Rivers [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 02 March 2007 13:29
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Subject: classification schemesDear allHas anyone got any thoughts and suggestions on using classification schemes alongside NLM? NLM is fine for all the clinical stuff we have, but our non-clinical collection is rapidly expanding - management, education, social work - and I'm finding NLM less and less useful for these subjects.Part of my problem is that apart from Dewey (I'm a public library escapee) I'm not familiar enough with any of the other schedules to decide that one of them is worth using. And as the Librarything blog has noted http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2006/08/angry-about-classification.php you can't get full schedules for free anywhere.So can anyone suggest a cheap and easy solution (other than inventing my own scheme which I really do not have time to do)?ThanksSaraSara Stock BA (Hons) DipLib MCLIP
Library Services Manager
Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust
Colchester General Hospital
Turner Road
Colchester
Essex
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