Reclassification in a small decentralized medical library

This study describes procedures and indentifies problems in the reclassification of a small medical school library collection that is decentralized into five locations in three different communities. A total of 9,915 monographic titles (14,911 volumes) were reclassified in a nine-month period. The r...

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Published in:Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 1977-07, Vol.65 (3), p.354-359
Main Authors: Tong, J G, Brennen, P W, Byrd, G D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Book Classification
Branch libraries
Classification
Classification schemes
Costs and Cost Analysis
Dewey Decimal Classification
Information storage and retrieval
Information work
League of Nursing Classification
Libraries, Medical
Library of Congress
Medical libraries
Medicine
Methods
National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
National Library of Medicine USA
Reclassification
South Dakota
South Dakota University
Special classification schemes
Subject Headings
Subject indexing
Technical services
United States
University libraries
USA
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Summary:This study describes procedures and indentifies problems in the reclassification of a small medical school library collection that is decentralized into five locations in three different communities. A total of 9,915 monographic titles (14,911 volumes) were reclassified in a nine-month period. The reclassification staff consisted of one professional, two nonprofessionals, and one partime student assistant.
ISSN:0025-7338