WEB DROP-IN 4--------------COMPARE AND CONTRAST DEWEY AND LC


http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/legacylib/callno.html retrieved 6/10/06

Some libraries use the Dewey Decimal System, but, did you know that there is another type of system called the Library of Congress or LC? Find out about this other type of book classification system comparing and contrasting it to the Dewey Decimal System. Use what you already know about Dewey and find out about LC by reading at the links below. As you read, chart what you find out. Be sure to look away and re-tell concepts in your own words, not copying and pasting, so that you are not guilty of plagiarizing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Classification

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html

http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/legacylib/callno.html (disregard ‘location prefixes’ at the bottom of the page)

Dewey Decimal SystemLibrary of Congress System










































Debby Hare, MS
June 2006