Library of Congress Classification, but yeah, close enough. It's the system used by most American universities, because Dewey's way of organizing information makes it hard to classify granular and/or interdisciplinary materials. (It's also pretty 19th-century in its scope: the ranges of numbers assigned to, for instance, religion, science, and technology are the same size, even though what's currently being published in the latter two far outpaces the former. Also, if you want to classify anything other than Christianity in Dewey, your number allotment is tiny. It's not that it's a bad system, it's just that it reflects priorities that are no longer current.)
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Date: 2006-08-21 03:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-21 03:44 pm (UTC)(We don't DDC here, however. LCC all the way!)
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Date: 2006-08-21 09:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-21 09:24 pm (UTC)*snicker*
My workplace is cool, but not that cool.
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Date: 2006-08-21 09:26 pm (UTC)I know WHAT it is - a different way of arranging things than Dewey Decimal. I'm just not totally sure on the acronym.
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Date: 2006-08-21 11:46 pm (UTC)Library of Congress.
Then there is SuDoc, for Government Documents too.
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Date: 2006-08-22 08:16 pm (UTC)