Reclassification of University of Sussex Library local language and literature classes to Library ofCongress

摘要

The University of Sussex library was founded in 1961. The original library management team decided to adoptLibrary of Congress classification (LC) because it was considered more appropriate for an academic collection.However, largely down to the innovatory spirit of the professional librarians at Sussex in the early days, whobelieved LC to be out of date for certain subjects, modifications were made to the LC schedules. For somesubjects (literature, philosophy, fine arts, music, geography, anthropology and social sciences) wholly in-houseschemes were designed using the same first-level class letter as LC, but, in the example here of the socialsciences (based on the then leading current international bibliography), continued very differently:Radically speaking : feminism reclaimed / edited by Diane Bell and Renate Duelli Klein.