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Carry on Classifying! The Moys Reclassification Project at the Bodleian Law Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2018

Helen Garner
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Abstract

This article, written by Helen Garner, reviews the progress of the Moys Reclassification Project at the Bodleian Law Library and covers the issues relating to the lessons learnt and the benefits of changing to a different classification scheme. The Bodleian Law Library started work on the Moys Reclassification Project in 2006 and work is still on-going to complete the project.

Keywords

classification schemesacademic libraries
Type
Moys Classification
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , September 2018 , pp. 128 - 136
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2018. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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Footnotes

1 Bird, Ruth, ‘Re-Classification on a Grand Scale – Moys at the Bodleian Law Library’ in (2010) Legal Information Management 10, 213CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 The main monograph collection is catalogued but it is not easy to ascertain exact figures for the numbers of items held in each monographic sequence.  We rely on an approximate figure of titles, knowing that in terms of individual items the numbers will be higher, either due to multiple copies or multiple parts.

3 Bodleian Law Library, ‘A Sea of Books: Moys Reclassification Underway’ <http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/lawbod/2009/08/25/a-sea-of-books-moys-reclassification-underway/> accessed 12th July 2018.

4 Bodleian Law Library, ‘Welcome all new and returning students’ <http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/lawbod/2012/10/12/welcome-all-new-and-returning-students/> accessed 12th July 2018.

5 The Bodleian Law Library's practice in KL, KM and KN is to add an alpha-numeric country code to the end of the Moys classification number for any non-English jurisdiction unless the scheme instructs you to use a table to create country specific numbers as, for example, in KL 11 to 29.

6 Moys, Elizabeth M., Moys classification and thesaurus for legal materials (Morris, Diana ed, 5th ed, Saur, De Gruyter c2013)Google Scholar.

7 Bodleian Law Library, ‘Notable Works’ <http://notableworks.squarespace.com/> accessed 12th July 2018.

8 Bodleian Law Library, ‘Celebrating the Bodleian Law Library’ <https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/201649/Celebrating-the-Bodleian-Law-Library-FINAL-edit.pdf> accessed 12th July 2018.

9 Bodleian Law Library, ‘Renovations’ <http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/lawbod/renovations/> accessed 12th July 2018.

10 Bodleian Law Library, ‘Reclassification of part of the collection’ <http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/lawbod/2017/07/10/reclassification-of-part-of-the-collection/> accessed 12th July 2018.

11 As part of the Bodleian Libraries, the Bodleian Law Library receives material via legal deposit. Legislation introduced in 2013 means that legal deposit can be sent electronically to the legal deposit libraries. For the Bodleian Law Library this has meant a shift in material arriving in printed format to material arriving electronically. For further information on legal deposit please refer to: <https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/finding-resources/legal-deposit#electronicLD> accessed 12th July 2018.

12 SOLO is the Bodleian Libraries research and discovery tool and can be accessed at: http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk.