cynthia, I can't help you but I can encourage you -- honestly, the call
numbers alone (especially in LCC where the notation is not a strict
hierarchy) are close to useless without the meanings. One might even
make the meanings more visible than the call numbers themselves (bolder,
placed first)... Go for it!
Next: a smart phone app that reads books on a shelf and reports what the
call numbers mean. I'd call it "Where the F am I, anyway?"
kc
On 12/3/13 6:35 PM, Harper, Cynthia wrote:
I'm thinking of trying to enhance the call-number browse pages on a
Millennium catalog with meanings of the classification ranges taken from
the LoC Classification database.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/classification.html
a typical call-number browse page might look like this:
http://librarycatalog.vts.edu/search~S1?/cBX100.7.B632+1999/cbx++100.7+b632+1999/-3,-1,,E/browse<http://librarycatalog.vts.edu/search%7ES1?/cBX100.7.B632+1999/cbx++100.7+b632+1999/-3,-1,,E/browse>
I'd like to intersperse the call-number listing with call-number range
meanings like
BX100 - Christian denominations - Eastern churches
Has anyone tried this? Can you point me to the API documentation for the
LC Classification?
Cindy Harper
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