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BibliothГЁque Nationale de France to Add Records to WorldCat

Print/Share This Post Email This Post Published by rwatstein October 25th, 2008 in OCLC, classification and cataloging. 0 Comments

Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) and BibliothГЁque nationale de France have signed a letter of intent to work cooperatively to add records from the French national library to OCLC’s WorldCat. WorldCat is one of the world’s largest online resources for finding information in libraries.

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Library of Congress Working on Several Projects to Reclassify Materials in Law Library of Congress

Print/Share This Post Email This Post Published by rwatstein November 20th, 2007 in library services, Library of Congress and classification. 0 Comments

The Law Team, Social Sciences Cataloging Division, has embarked on several projects to reclassify materials in the Law Library of Congress. The first such project is a major effort to reclassify approximately 800,000 “pre class K” titles. Arranged in the Law Library stacks simply by name of country, these titles often have duplicate shelf location numbers and are therefore difficult to retrieve. The Law Library requested that the Law Team focus first on materials from Latin American countries of strategic interest to the United States Congress.

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