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3. Assign subject
4. Type card
5. Place in folder and label
6. File material by subject
7. File card in catalog
Article 7. Library Classification Scheme
Library classification schemes serve to arrange books and
other library materials in a logical order on library shelves and also
provide order for classified catalogs.
The LDML uses the Library of Congress Classification
System or LCC (Table 3) for books and Dewey Decimal
Classification or DDC (Table 4) for manuscripts. The LCC system
groups the subject using the letters of the alphabet and Arabic
numerals, while the DDC groups the subjects using Arabic
numerals only.
Combination of the following ways of classification is
also used: 1) classification by subject content; and 2) classification
by physical form.
Table 3. Library of Congress Classification schedules
LCC Letter Subject Area
A General Works
AC Collections
AE Encyclopedias
AG Dictionaries
AI Indexes
AM Museums
AN Newspapers
AP Periodicals
AS Academies and learned societies
AY Yearbooks, Almanacs, Directories
AZ History of scholarship. The humanities
B Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
B History and systems of philosophy
BC Logic
BD Speculative philosophy
BF Psychology
BH Aesthetics
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