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Author: Gill, Kathy
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 00:00

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From Computist Weekly, CW 9.14


>    In 1472, Queen's College Library at Cambridge had 199 books.
>Now, the Library of Congress adds 10K new books every two weeks.
>To deal with this glut, LOC is considering shelving books
>by acquisition date rather than subject.  Books would be assigned
>permanent slots based on size, to permit maximum shelving density.
>[Washington Post, 12Mar99.  Meg Schimmels <megschimme@fn.net>,
>LM_NET.  net-hap.]  (That doesn't reduce the need for subject-
>based descriptors and good indexing methods.)

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Kathy

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