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| | Library of Congress Classification in a New Setting |
 | | Although in American libraries classification was used primarily as a shelving and location device offering limited subject access through shelf browsing in the manual environment, it has been proven a useful retrieval tool also in online systems that offer sophisticated browsing and searching functions. |
 | | LCC and LCSH, with their improved capacities for keeping up to date, and their wide accessibility via the Library's own electronic tools, can become effective systems for organizing the whole spectrum of current literature, wherever, and in whatever form, it resides. |
 | | The result of the "departmentalized" approach of LCC is that individual classes or parts of the schemesuch as the classifications of law, religion, art, and cartographic materials, to name a fewcan be adopted as stand-alone, specialized schemes or serve as models for developing such schemes. |
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