UDC — into the 21st Century

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Feb 1998 English Publisher:EmeraldJournal:Aslib Proceedings, volume 50, pages 44-48 (issn: 0001-253X,

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Authors: Ia C. McIlwaine;

doi: 10.1108/eb051482

UDC — into the 21st Century

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The problems posed by automation for those responsible for the maintenance of bibliographic classifications have been widely rehearsed both in the professional literature and at conferences. This paper will not repeat them, but will rather give some indication of the attempts currently being made to fit a classification that was devised in the nineteenth century for use in the twenty‐first.

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