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The role and future of subject classification: the exploitation of resources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Rita Marcella
Rita Marcella
Affiliation:
School of information studies, Northumbria University
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Abstract

‘Classification, then, is a tool for very simple but infinitely important purposes. Its whole object is to secure an order which will be useful to readers and to those who seek information with the smallest complication of search or other effort. It is a technique designed to expedite the full use of the knowledge stored in books and other material housed in the collection.’ (Maltby, 1975). Rita Marcella expounds her view of the importance of subject classification.

Type
Research Article
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , Summer 2002 , pp. 3 - 7
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2002

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