When I trained as a Teacher Librarian (with the grand dream of becoming
one, until I hit my 3rd year rounds, and decided I needed a break from
schools), I had to learn, DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification), UDC
(Universal Decimal Classification) and LC (Library of Congress). I've
used DDC (and still do) for my first job, my last job in a public
library, and for the RMLG library, but in my 2nd job, I had to relearn
everything I'd forgotten, as the research facility I worked in, used
UDC. I can still tell you that Australian Standards are in 389.9, and
the ATRF (Aust. Road Transport Federation) Conference proceedings (which
I can still recall as being bound in lime green) are in 656! Then when I
worked in a public library here, I had to revisit DDC after a number of
years, and got to know where the science experiments are, etc. I still
use it for finding books on roads and construction for my son, and at
the kids school where I volunteer.
These are the 3 biggies for classification, although there used to be a
highly "scientific" journal we received at the Research place, called
The Journal of Irreproducible Results. It spoofed scientific research
(with articles on things like the dynamics of strapless ballgowns, etc),
which our scientists enjoyed, and I thought to propose a new
classification system of colour and size. We were asked so many times
by our guys for a book ("can't remember the title"), that's about so-big
and is x colour (and it would turn out to be about so-so-big and a
different colour). Scary thing was, we KNEW what book/conference
proceeding they meant!
Cheers,
Helen, Aussie in Denver, where the sun has finally broken out
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