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Good morning, We're in a very similar position to Nicky Ransom at UCA-we have a multi-site, multi-college university in which individual subject librarians still assign classification numbers when they select stock. And each college has a different way of applying Dewey, so in some cases we may own a single book at each of 6 different colleges, with 6 different numbers assigned! We therefore sorely need a large reclassification project as we try to make our libraries more unified. Rectifying this will take a tremendous amount of work in terms of logistics and also politically in convincing the college staff to change numbers-right now many of them are convinced that their local application is the best for their users and they are reluctant to change. We have recently undergone a restructure, resulting in centralized ordering & cataloguing for all our libraries, so after the dust settles it may be easier to convince college staff to let go of classification. But I think this will probably have to come down as a top-level decision. And that's not even touching on the difficulties of actually editing records and relabeling stock ... Kate Kluttz Acquisitions & Metadata Librarian Library Resources & Systems University of the Arts London [log in to unmask] 020 7514 8586 ________________________________ We've moved into our amazing new home at King's Cross. FIND OUT MORE: www.csm.arts.ac.uk/kings-cross