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A Comment on the article by R.A. Ukoh ’Library classification and change: the example of Bliss’. (Libri vol. 25 p 168)

A Comment on the article by R.A. Ukoh ’Library classification and change: the example of Bliss’.... Dear Sirs In the 1975 (No, 3) issue of Libri you published an article by R. A. Ukoh 'Library classification and change: the example of Bliss1. This article makes a number of quite legitimate and reasonable points regarding the weaknesses of a one-man classification and the importance of Lnsftitutionalisation if a classification is to have the resources to maintain itself. It also makes a number of damaging references both to the original Bliss Classification (BC) and to the new edition of it now in preparation and I should be grateful if you would allow me to reply to these. Mr Ukoh, writing of the difficulties of operating the existing scheme refers (p. 169) to "its inherent lack of exactness caused by its flexibility'". The point of the alternatives provided by Buss is that a given library should choose carefully that one it likes best and then erase the rejected ones from its schedules. It is certainly true that in some areas BC is inexact, but this is because of the lack of specificity in its vocabulary (a feature which Ibadan will find occurs frequently in LC) and has nothing to do with its flexibility. This latter is a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Libri - International Journal of Libraries and Information Services de Gruyter

A Comment on the article by R.A. Ukoh ’Library classification and change: the example of Bliss’. (Libri vol. 25 p 168)

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de Gruyter
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Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
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0024-2667
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1865-8423
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10.1515/libr.1976.26.2.156
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Dear Sirs In the 1975 (No, 3) issue of Libri you published an article by R. A. Ukoh 'Library classification and change: the example of Bliss1. This article makes a number of quite legitimate and reasonable points regarding the weaknesses of a one-man classification and the importance of Lnsftitutionalisation if a classification is to have the resources to maintain itself. It also makes a number of damaging references both to the original Bliss Classification (BC) and to the new edition of it now in preparation and I should be grateful if you would allow me to reply to these. Mr Ukoh, writing of the difficulties of operating the existing scheme refers (p. 169) to "its inherent lack of exactness caused by its flexibility'". The point of the alternatives provided by Buss is that a given library should choose carefully that one it likes best and then erase the rejected ones from its schedules. It is certainly true that in some areas BC is inexact, but this is because of the lack of specificity in its vocabulary (a feature which Ibadan will find occurs frequently in LC) and has nothing to do with its flexibility. This latter is a

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Libri - International Journal of Libraries and Information Services – de Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1976

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