If the Library of Congress wants to adhere to these same principles, it needs to radically overhaul its system of classification. In the meantime, library employees and users alike need to be ...

HIGH POINT, N.C. — High Point University broke ground Monday on a $100 million library that will serve as the university’s ...

Object Details Author Library of Congress Subject Cataloging Division Notes "The additions and changes in Class Q, adopted while this work was in press will be cumulated and printed in List 234 of LC ...

The Library of Congress Classification System arranges materials by subject. The first sections of the call number represent the subject of the book. The letter and decimal section of the call number ...

Cataloging and classification are critical to any library. Without them, finding materials would be impossible. However, there are biases that can result in patrons not getting the materials they ...

In April 2018, I presented my research into issues of library bias in the Library of Congress Classification and Subject Headings at NCORE, the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher ...

It’s almost always a book in a narrow range of content—the Library of Congress classification HQ, treating sex and family topics—that is mistakenly made available to unready kids.

The Library of Congress was created in 1800 by the same act of Congress that moved the federal government to Washington, with a $5,000 budget for books approved by John Adams.