Library of Congress Classification (LCC)

LCC was originally developed by Herbert Putnam with the advice of Charles Ammi Cutter in 1897. It is a system which is very much used in research and university libraries in USA as well as in other countries. All bibliographical records from Library of Congress entail LCC as well as DDC numbers.

The most important features of the LCC are:

• It is an enumerative system (one of the most enumerative systems of all)

• It is based on literary warrant (on the literature in the LC)

• It was originally intended to be used only for LC. It is a system optimized for a particular collection.

Literature:

Broughton, V. (2004). Essential classification. London: Facet publishing. (Chapter 15 + 16 are about LCC).

Cataloging Policy and Support Office. (2005). Library of Congress Classification Outline. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html

Lo, E. S. Y. (1970). Library of Congress Classification and Dewey Decimal Classification: A comparison. United College Journal,  Vol. 8,  7 pages. Available at:  http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/6/600146.pdf

Miksa, F. L. (1984). The development of classification at the Library of Congress. University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (2005). Library of Congress Classification. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_classification

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~aubrycp/project/Sog50ax.html

Birger Hjørland

Last edited: 21-04-2006

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