Library of Congress Classification with Emphasis on Edition 3, 1952 of Class R; Medicine

摘要

This discussion on the Library of Congress Classification scheme is based on experience at the University of Oregon Medical School Library, where the LC Classification has been used since the organization of the Library in 1919. As of 1953 this Library contains 53,000 cataloged volumes of books and periodicals and receives more than 1,000 current periodicals. It serves the University of Oregon Medical School faculty of 60 full-time and 365 part-time individuals, 350 medical students, graduate students, medical technology students, and X-ray technology students, 133 undergraduate nurse students and 50 graduate nurse students, the interns and residents in the school hospitals and clinics and in other hospitals in the city. The Library is the official medical library for physicians in Oregon, a total of about 1,700 persons including those on the school faculty. Its service is extended to physicians anywhere in Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. It is open to all citizens in Oregon, and its clientele includes dentists, attorneys, public health workers, industrialists, teachers, students in colleges and high schools, and others. Reference and bibliographic services are offered and extensive use made of them. The stacks are open to readers. Students are taught the use of the catalog and stacks. They are urged to search for their reading material and to request aid unhesitatingly if they need it.