Reclassification in a small decentralized medical library.
This study describes procedures and indentifies problems in the reclassification of a small medical school library collection that is decentralized into five locations in three different communities. A total of 9,915 monographic titles (14,911 volumes) were reclassified in a nine-month period. The reclassification staff consisted of one professional, two nonprofessionals, and one partime student assistant.
D001867:Book Classification; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D007993:Libraries, Medical; D008722:Methods; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D013023:South Dakota; D013358:Subject Headings; D014481:United States