Yes. Actually, in Germany just about every library has its own system. Especially the university libraries. The public libraries have two or three most common systems. In the universities, there are some systems that are common, like the "Regensburger Verbundklassifikation" developed for the university of Regensburg but now used for many Bavarian university lbraries, or the UDC (Universal Decimal Classification), some use Dewey. But the branch library where I did my first internship was actually three libraries put together, and every one had several systems. So you had six or seven different classification systems in one library. They never went through the trouble of re-classifying old stuff when they invented a new classification, so in order to know where to find something you had to guess when it had been acquired by the library.
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Date: 2006-01-16 11:38 pm (UTC)Actually, in Germany just about every library has its own system. Especially the university libraries. The public libraries have two or three most common systems. In the universities, there are some systems that are common, like the "Regensburger Verbundklassifikation" developed for the university of Regensburg but now used for many Bavarian university lbraries, or the UDC (Universal Decimal Classification), some use Dewey.
But the branch library where I did my first internship was actually three libraries put together, and every one had several systems. So you had six or seven different classification systems in one library. They never went through the trouble of re-classifying old stuff when they invented a new classification, so in order to know where to find something you had to guess when it had been acquired by the library.