I have been reading with interest the discussion on Elazar vs LC and there
was one fact that I would like to point out. Elazar is recognized as a
standardized system that is acknowledged by the Library of Congress. It was
developed for Judaic libraries just like churches have their own system,
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This is an interesting discussion. I thank Wendy for mentioning that Sinai
Temple offers a service to small libraries such as the one Poshi is dealing
with. We get calls every week from people asking these types of questions.
Our clients are usually synagogue or JCC libraries that are run by one
I decided to use the LC classification at the Roth Center for Jewish Life
for two reasons:
(1) It was easier to obtain LC numbers for books from CIP data or from
OPACs than it would have been to assign numbers using eleazer
(2) Most users of the Roth Center's library are familiar with the LC
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> I teach cataloging and I know the limitations of LCC
> and other systems. No
> system works perfectly for every library; we have to
> make
> compromises. When using LCC you have the collective
> brains of all the
> librarians of LC and other research libraries to
> help you. Since n
Your librarian from CD Davis is right. First she is on site and familiar
with your set up. She know you and your library.
I teach cataloging and I know the limitations of LCC and other systems. No
system works perfectly for every library; we have to make
compromises. When using LCC you have
First, to give credit where it is due - that quotation about standards was
the work of Andres (Andrew) Tannenbaum, who coined it in around 1995. ( I
have used it many times in talks and presentations). He's Dutch, and a
fairly big name in the internet standards world.
But, to the matter at ha
I don't have an MLS yet, but I can tell you that we
started to catalog our new JCC library using LC
because the librarian we hired came from a university
setting. People who tried to find things on the
shelves had trouble; fiction is especially tricky for
patrons used to searching alphabetically b
Dear Poshi--
You might remind him that not all academic libraries use LC, and certainly
there are many college, seminary, and professional libraries that do
not. I am familiar with large academic libraries that use separate
classification systems for Rare Books, for Law, and for their general
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