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To classify or not to classify, that is the question?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Caroline Mosley  and
Lee Crowder
Lee Crowder
Affiliation:
Solicitors, Birmingham
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Extract

I recently found myself in the ‘enviable’ position of purchasing a library management system. The whole process gave me the chance to review the current classification scheme. The classification used was a ‘home made’ scheme based on broad legal topics. While the scheme was in itself fine, developments in the law meant that a significant number of areas were no longer sufficient. Coupled with the rapid growth in the firm's specialisms in the past few years, the classification scheme no longer served the needs of the library.

Type
Research Article
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , Summer 2002 , pp. 8 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2002

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