* Bliss bibliographic classification, a library cataloguing system

The Bliss bibliographic classification ( BC ) is a library classification system that was created by Henry E. Bliss ( 1870 – 1955 ), published in four volumes between 1940 and 1953.

Bliss had a lifelong interest in the organization, structure and philosophy of knowledge and was very critical of the library classification systems that were available to him.

Bliss wanted a classification system that would provide distinct rules yet still be adaptable to whatever kind of collection a library might have, as different libraries have different needs.

Colon classification ( CC ) is a system of library classification developed by S. R. Ranganathan.

The Cutter Expansive Classification system is a library classification system devised by Charles Ammi Cutter.

The Dewey Decimal Classification ( DDC ), or Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system created by Melvil Dewey in 1876.

The DDC is a system of library classification made up of ten classes, each divided into ten divisions, each having ten sections ( although there are only 99 of 100 divisions and 908 of 999 sections in total, as some are no longer in use or have not been assigned ).

There is also evidence of libraries at Nippur about 1900 BC and at Nineveh about 700 BC showing a library classification system.

The first library classification system was set up during the Han Dynasty.

There is also evidence of libraries at Nippur about 1900 BC and those at Nineveh about 700 BC showing a library classification system.

Han Chinese scholar Liu Xiang established the first library classification system during the Han Dynasty, and the first book notation system.

Most libraries have materials arranged in a specified order according to a library classification system, so that items may be located quickly and collections may be browsed efficiently.

Stacks Maintenance also shelf reads the material in the stacks to ensure that it is in the correct library classification order.

Basic tasks in library management include the planning of acquisitions ( which materials the library should acquire, by purchase or otherwise ), library classification of acquired materials, preservation of materials ( especially rare and fragile archival materials such as manuscripts ), the deaccessioning of materials, patron borrowing of materials, and developing and administering library computer systems.

The Library of Congress Classification ( LCC ) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress.

Library classification form part of the field of library and information science.

It is a form of bibliographic classification ( library classifications are used in library catalogs, while " bibliographic classification " also covers classification used in other kinds of bibliographic databases ).

RCA Victor has an ambitious and useful project in a stereo series called `` Adventures In Music '', which is an instructional record library for elementary schools.

For it is such a distinguished place, with such fine works of art and such a big library, that there can be little doubt but that the owner has become depraved by all this culture.

The American Institute of Interior Designers is redecorating the White House library.

There is no registration fee but there will be a charge of $2.50 for the luncheon to be held in the library and fine arts building.

At the workshop, Mrs. Schenk will discuss `` the board and the staff, librarian-board relationships, personnel policies, how good is our librarian and staff, how good am I as a library board member and how good is our library ''.

It is the AID's intention to create in the library `` a miniature museum of Americana '' before completed refurbishing is unveiled early this fall.

The mantel was found in a recently demolished Salem house and is being fitted over the White House library fireplace.

Every library borrower, or at least those whose taste goes beyond the five-cent fiction rentals, knows what it is to hear the librarian say apologetically, `` I'm sorry, but we don't have that book.

The plight of a small community library is proportionately worse.

Within a system, however, the autonomy of each member library is preserved.

To set up a co-operative library system, the law requires a central book collection of 100,000 nonfiction volumes as the nucleus, and the system is organized around it.

The basic state grant is thirty cents for each person served, and there is a further book incentive grant that provides an extra twenty cents up to fifty cents per capita, if a library spends a certain number of dollars.

Local libraries find, too, that the new plan saves tax dollars because books can be bought through the system, and since the system buys in bulk it is able to obtain larger discounts than would be available to an individual library.

In every aspect of service -- to the public, to children in schools, to colleges and universities -- the library of today is failing to render vitally needed services.

Here is the BNF for Algol60 and the ICL2900 compiler source, library documentation, and a considerable test suite including Brian Wichmann's tests.

* 1914 – World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army.

It is probable that the first collection of astronomical observations and terrestrial omens was made for a library established by Sargon.

One of the more substantial collections of Aldine Press books and Aldine imitations in North America is at the Harold B. Lee library on the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

We know little more of the life of Andronicus, but he is of special interest in the history of philosophy, from the statement of Plutarch, that he published a new edition of the works of Aristotle and Theophrastus, which formerly belonged to the library of Apellicon, and were brought to Rome by Sulla with the rest of Apellicon's library in 84 BC.

The local community maintains responsibility for the financial support of its own library program, facilities, and services, but wider resources and additional services become available through membership in a system.

The inadequacy of our library system will become critical unless we act vigorously to correct this condition.

While it touted superior graphics to the 2600 and Mattel's Intellivision, the system was initially incompatible with the 2600s expansive library of games, and some market analysts have speculated that this hurt its sales especially since an Atari 2600 cartridge adapter had been released for the Intellivision II.

The Cuttle Cart II has enabled more people to play the entire 2600 and 7800 library on an original system as well as binaries of unreleased games and new homebrew titles.

COCONET's bitmap and vector graphics and support for multiple type fonts were inspired by the PLATO system, and the graphics capabilities were based on what was available in the Borland BGI graphics library.

He believed that because the popular Library of Congress system had been designed for a specific library ( the Library of Congress ) it had no use as a standard system outside that library.

A few library schools sometimes taught the BC system to their students, but only in a minor way.

The City College library continued to use Bliss ’ s system until 1967, when it reluctantly switched to the Library of Congress system.

Cygwin consists of a library that implements the POSIX system call API in terms of Win32 system calls, a GNU development toolchain ( including GCC and GDB ) to allow software development, and a large number of application programs equivalent to those on Unix systems.

* Crystallography and NMR system, software library for computational structural biology