[Ads-l] News Article: Cold Book Storage at Harvard

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Mon Feb 9 00:10:13 UTC 2015


At 2/8/2015 04:06 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>It's amusing that the Gizmodo posting refers to the Dewey Decimal System.

Winder currently uses two identification systems concurrently (but 
not simultaneously for the same copy of any book!).  Its own, old 
system, labeled "Widener ...", and the Library of Congress's, labeled 
"WID-LC ...".  Other libraries, such as Lamont and Houghton, use 
their own systems of identification.

...
>Fred Shapiro

Joel

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