Know someone at the Library of Congress?
Posted on:: October 7th, 2004
I’m looking for someone to talk with at the Library of Congress about its classification scheme. I’m interested in its history, how they modify it, its relationship to the Dewey system, and how the digitizing of information is affecting it. If you know someone there I could talk with about such stuff, would you please send me an email? (evident.com is the domain and self is the name.)
And a preemptive thanks to you all!
Categories: Uncategorized dw
try Jenny Levine, The Shifted Librarian:
http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com
also, chock-a-block with librarian bloggers:
http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html
have you heard of google, Son?
also, just discovered this ultra cool site:
http://www.RedLightGreen.com
It’s way more pro than the name makes it sound. As to the classification system, I could be wrong about this, but I think it *is* the Dewey Decimal System. Sounds like what you’re exploring is subject classification, another but related animal. Search LOC.gov for Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH to its pals). Or you can get a sense of this via the subject tags provided by RedLightGreen — or Amazon, for that matter. All those little check-box search thingies at the bottom of each book page? Yup, those are LCSH descriptors. Ingram uses it, as does Books in Print, and many many others.
Or, you could call me. Or were you trying to scoop me again? You bastard! Hell, I was beta-testing the first LCSH CDs for the Library of Congress while you were still in Pampers reading all that Heidegger bologna.
love & kisses, as ever…
RB
RageBoy: LoC has its own classification system which is, IMHO, more expandable (and modern) than Dewey.
David, my past experience is that you could probably make a few calls to the LoC and get redirected to someone who would be happy to talk with you.