General information about LC classification schedules

These are my notes for a very basic outline, tailored to the audience I was teaching. I have more detailed outlines for different subjects/schedules. All comments, corrections, updates are welcome. The geographic arrangement of each book is: United States, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Everywhere else. A: Works too general or comprehensive to go in any subject-- Encyclopedias, dictionaries, museums, periodicals, etc. B: Philosophy (divided by national literatures, time periods and authors) and Religions. D-F: History-- Divided geographically; then subdived by time period and locality. G: Geography-- The only schedule with triple cutters (maps); also contains recreation, anthropology, and folklore. H: Social sciences-- Economics, statistics, crime, social groups. J: Political Science-- Theory to specific, then local. Constitutions used to go here. K: Law: Divided geographically, then by subject, then by local and local subject. Structure is basically the same for all places: Statutes, constitutions, subject When this was written, religious law had not been finished. Law of Europe-- places that no longer exist (e.g., Burgundy) go in their present geographical area (there are places in the schedules for these) Procedure 1. Find county of law 2. Find subject (civil, common, etc.) 3. Use appropriate tables (Law uses form tables rather than place tables. L. Education QRS: Science, Medicine, Agriculture-- these have the most overlap because of different treatments/aspects of the topics. M: Music. Single voice to multiple voice; history and criticism; study and teaching. Keyboard first; then strings, winds, percussion, vocal First by form, then by composer. Double-cuttered: composer/title. N: The arts-- Concrete to abstract. Form then nationality or chronology; then artist. P-PZ: Language and literature History and criticism; chronology, form. T: Technology-- contains technology, flight, cooking. U-V: Military and Navel Sciences. Z: Books, printing, libraries, bibliography.