Document (#38906)

Author

Higgins, C.

Title

Library of Congress Classification : Teddy Roosevelt's world in numbers?

Source

Cataloging and classification quarterly. 50(2012) no.4, S.249-262

Year

2012

Abstract

This article identifies late nineteenth-century American preoccupations and prejudices within the Library of Congress classification scheme, suggesting that these ought to be of concern to the worldwide community of classifiers who now apply the scheme beyond its original context. The approach of the article is both historical and critical. It uses a number of examples to demonstrate how the ideological content of the classification scheme fails to adequately represent contemporary global realities, while recognizing, and applauding, its essential pragmatism.

Theme

International bedeutende Universalklassifikationen

Object

LCC

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