[Sigia-l] Endeca in the Library

[Christopher Fahey]

> Here's a better explanation :-)
>
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/faceted_classification_at_work.htm
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Thanks for the link, Peter!

Someone else had written this:
>> can browse down into the 1.66 million item 
>> collection by using the Library of Congress 
>> Classification system.

I assume that this (below) is the Library of Congress Classification System?
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/browse.html

But the site also features this alternative browsing hierarchy:
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/browsesubjects/

To me, the LOC system seems fairly arbitrary and generalized... But the
second system seems like it might be designed to better match the type of
material actually contained in the library and desired by the users.

I also like that the second system is not mutually-exclusive: "Art" is found
both under "Design" and under "Humanities".

I'd be extremely interested in other people's opinions on the relative
merits of these two different top-level classification systems.

[My background is largely in the "interaction-design" part of IA, not the
library science side, so forgive me if this is IA 101 for some of you :-) ]

-Cf

Christopher Fahey
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