Principles of Classification

October 24, 2012
All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern time.

Description: Have you ever wondered why we have library classification systems and how they work? How does one system organize information compared to another?
This webinar will first cover basic, general principles of classification. It will also present the basic structure of the two main systems we use, Library of Congress Classification (LCC) and Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), and will discuss their strengths and weaknesses. It will illustrate some of the main differences between LCC and DDC with practical examples.
Audience: This webinar would be of interest to catalogers and non-catalogers who want a basic introduction to the classification systems and their structure.
   
Presenter: Lai Ma is a Ph.D. Candidate and Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University-Bloomington, where she also obtained a M.L.S. Lai has taught courses in the area of knowledge organization for more than four years. Her research interests include the interrelationship between information infrastructure and society.
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Registration Fees:  $39 ALCTS Member; $49 Non-member; $39 International; $99 Group (a group of people that will watch it together).  
For additional information and access to registrations links, please go to the following website:
http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/102412
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