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Listed below are the letters and titles of the main classes of the Library of Congress Classification. Click on any class to view an outline of its subclasses. Online access to the complete text of the schedules is available in Classification Web, a subscription product that may also be purchased from the Cataloging Distribution Service.
- Subject Headings & Genre/Form Terms
The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is perhaps...
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The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a...
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Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms and Manual (searchable...
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The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a...
- Subject Headings & Genre/Form Terms
The Library of Congress Classification ( LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress in the United States, which can be used for shelving books in a library. LCC is mainly used by large research and academic libraries, while most public libraries and small academic libraries used the Dewey Decimal ...
The Library of Congress does not publish a general index to the classification schedules, but a Combined Indexes to the Library of Congress Classification Schedules, compiled by Nancy B. Olson, was published independently in 1975. In place of standard subdivisions, each class may incorporate divisions for literary form and geography.
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The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a classification system that was first developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to organize and arrange the book collections of the Library of Congress.
Sep 28, 2023 · Library of Congress Classification System Books in this library are shelved according to the Library of Congress Classification System, which separates all knowledge into 20 classes. Each class corresponds to a letter of the alphabet with subclasses identified by combinations of letters and subtopics by numerical notations.