What is the difference between US and UK libraries?

Posted on November 5, 2009 by admin

I know that US libraries use either dewey decimal or library of congress classification, what do British libraries use?

The call numbers are called shelfmarks, and classify with LC or Dewey, while others are used for special collections.

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One Response to What is the difference between US and UK libraries?

  1. Arial N. says:
    November 6, 2009 at 4:28 am

    The call numbers are called shelfmarks, and classify with LC or Dewey, while others are used for special collections.
    References :
    http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/sites/mlshelf2.shtml