Library Association Record Volume 8 - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...in the course of the evening, some librarian might explain how he worked close classification with An indicator. Of course in open-access libraries close classification was indispensable, but with an indicator they could get on without it. It was easy to classify the books in a reference library. He must, however, confess that he favoured close classification in the lending department also, and would be willing to carry it out, although the majority of libraries in London were not classified. Mr. James Duff Brown (Islington) said that he quite agreed with the conclusions arrived at in Mr. McKnight's paper. He knew that exact classification in reference libraries was becoming more universal, and it was gradually being more and more adopted. Library after library was coming round, and he thought that in a short time a system of exact classification would be found in every good library. One of the reasons why exact classification was disregarded in this country was the feeling that the public would not understand it; but his experience was that the public was not so lacking in intelligence as librarians were apt to imagine. He thought the sooner they got rid of this idea the better it would be for all. No difficulty had been experienced with the public in libraries where classified catalogues had been used. He quite agreed that anybody, even girls and boys of fourteen years of age, could just as easily pick up any ordinary system of exact notation as an alphabetical system, or numbers alone. It was very depressing and sad to think how backward many librarians were even with the simplest classification work on the shelves and in the catalogues of their lending departments. One might pick up any ordinary tradesman's catalogue--say the price list of a co-operativ...
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- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130622770
- ISBN 13 9781130622775
- BindingPaperback
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