Just to add two small extra bits of information. Most Australian university
libraries use LCC.
The Australian Government uses neither LC nor Dewey, but a specific RFCD
classification (RFCD = Research Fields, Courses and Disciplines) developed
by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. See
http://www.research.utas.edu.au/publications/docs/14_rfcd.doc. All
repositories in Australia end up having the RFCD embedded in them (not LCC)
so they can link with research reporting. So JISC with Dewey is not so
bizarre after all.
Arthur Sale
University of Tasmania
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"why Dewey anyway, since almost all large Uni libraries use LCC?"
True, most U.S. University libraries use LCC, but is that the case in
other countries'
University libraries?? Also, I'm glad you noted 'most', John, instead of
all because my one of my alma maters (Purdue University - an American
public university) still uses Dewey.
Amanda Piegza
Institutional Repository and Digital Collections Librarian
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Visit Scholars' Mine, Missouri University of Science and Technology's
repository, at:
http://scholarsmine.mst.edu/
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Ann,
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> Actually a decision was made quite some time ago that the backbone
> subject classification scheme for the JISC Information Environment is
> Dewey. (Don't shoot me down, I'm only reporting this!) Because of
> that, another application I work on (different from and unrelated to
> the one harvesting from repositories) uses Dewey as its backbone
> subject classification scheme.
Interesting. I wonder why EPrints is shipped with a basic LC
classification tree instead?
Also - why Dewey anyway, since almost all large Uni libraries use LCC?
Regards,
John Smith.
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