Library of Congress Classification

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Library of Congress Classification

...Of the approximately 130,000 classification items, 56% are technology and 27% are natural sciences. It is classified in detail using a wide range of auxiliary symbols and is used to classify natural science materials. Another classification that does not use a decimal system is the Library of Congress Classification (abbreviation LC), which has been published since 1901. Since the Library of Congress had a collection of over one million books at the end of the 19th century, the classification based on Bacon's academic classification was no longer sufficient, so instead it was inspired by Comte's academic system and uses a combination of the alphabet (excluding I, O, W, X, Y) and ordinal numbers in the enumeration system. ...

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Japanese:

…分類項目数およそ13万のうち,技術が56%,自然科学が27%を占め,豊富な補助記号を使って細かく分類されており,自然科学系の資料分類に使われる。 また十進法をとらない分類としては,1901年以来刊行されている《アメリカ議会図書館分類表Library of Congress Classification》(略号LC)がある。これは,19世紀末100万を超える蔵書をかかえた議会図書館では,もはや先のベーコンの学問分類を基礎としたものでは充足できず,むしろコントの学問体系にヒントを得て,列挙式にアルファベット(I,O,W,X,Yを除く)と序数との組合せを用いている。…

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