Re: [Koha-devel] Some thoughts about the "Dewey" field (was: What's a "Dewey"?)

[Saiful Amin]

<quote who="Andrew Arensburger">
>       Naive question: does LC indicate the topic, just like Dewey?
> Or is it more generally a code that tells you where to find a given
> book?
>       If the LC ultimately determines the physical location of a
> given book, then its purpose is different from the Dewey code: books
> with similar call numbers would be close to each other on the shelf,
> whereas books with similar Dewey numbers would be close to each other in
> the catalog.

The LC call number *does* represent the topic. It uses mixed notation, ie,
both alphabets and numbers.  It starts with an English capital letter. 
Each letter represents a discipline.

Saiful

DRTC
Bangalore, India.