The paper presents the results of five years of application of Colon Classification, 6. Edition, in the Library of the Natural History Museum of Udine, Italy. Research confirms that CC still presents those positive characteristics that gave fame to it. The paper compares CC and the Dewey Decimal Classification by means of a special indicator (resolution power), and it shows how the use of CC could greatly help Italian cataloguers using Nuovo Soggettario, the new thesaurus developed and used at the Biblioteca Centrale Nazionale di Firenze, where also Bibliografia Nazionale Italiana (Italian National Bibliografphy) is produced. Use of the Colon Classification, 6. Edition, during these five year demonstrated that a faceted classification offers great advantages in organizing documents in a modern library, even if Colon Classification is surely in need of updating and revision
Colon Classification and Nuovo Soggettario: The Case of the Library of the Natural History Museum of Udine, Italy
Bianchini Carlo
2012-01-01
Abstract
The paper presents the results of five years of application of Colon Classification, 6. Edition, in the Library of the Natural History Museum of Udine, Italy. Research confirms that CC still presents those positive characteristics that gave fame to it. The paper compares CC and the Dewey Decimal Classification by means of a special indicator (resolution power), and it shows how the use of CC could greatly help Italian cataloguers using Nuovo Soggettario, the new thesaurus developed and used at the Biblioteca Centrale Nazionale di Firenze, where also Bibliografia Nazionale Italiana (Italian National Bibliografphy) is produced. Use of the Colon Classification, 6. Edition, during these five year demonstrated that a faceted classification offers great advantages in organizing documents in a modern library, even if Colon Classification is surely in need of updating and revisionI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
