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In response to
"Not just that class - the 000s and the 400s use the same system, and the 200s are 220-289 Christianity, 290-299 all other religions"
by
Roger More
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I think it might be a little more complicated that you think. It's sort of like saying sports are more important than they used to be so they
Posted by
mara
Oct 10 '13, 09:13
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shouldn't all be in 796. If there are no empty slots next to 796, you'd have to move things *out* of slots to be able to expand. The expense in reclassifying would be enormous.
And all it does is make the numbers look more "fair" or "enlightened" or something. It doesn't really do anything practical, just affects how things look.
(Well, actually, giving sports more numbers at the "ones" level *would* have practical effects because of the size of the collections. Public library collections of foreign non-European literary criticism wouldn't even have that benefit.)
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