At 18:54 -0400 02/09/3, James R. Frysinger wrote: >Perhaps the very complex Library of Congress (LOC) classification >scheme is the antithesis of the Dewey Decimal System. I've never >understood the LOC system. Yet, that seems to be the system preferred by >large libraries. As far as I can tell, there's not a whole lot about it >that is decimal!
Effectively, it seems quite complex! BTW, is there a US organization, some kind of a National Library, from which you can download books of various natures ? I recently discovered that the Biblioth�que Nationale de France (http://gallica.bnf.fr/ ) makes available to anybody a number of digitalized books, old or more recent. Their intention is to scan and digitalize their whole library. You select a title, after a few seconds you are informed that it is available under TIFF or PDF format, you just have to use a ftp browser... and wait for a while if the book is voluminous and your Internet connection not too fast!. Unfortunately they have very little on metric system. Louis
