The system of choice for many research-university libraries, Library of Congress uses a letter-and-number scheme to classify items and is perhaps the most complex of the three.

Its shelving system groups books by category like a bookstore but files books within each category according to the Dewey numbers on their spine. This “mash-up” organization style inspired the Pauline ...

The meeting comes after federal Judge Robert Pitman on March 30 ordered the Llano County Library System – which includes three branches – to return 12 children’s books to its shelves that ...

Long-time Escondido library volunteer Virgina Abushanab doesn’t like what she sees when she looks at the racks of shelving in the city library. Perhaps more to the point, she’s not thrilled ...

A rural Texas county voted Thursday afternoon to drop discussion for now of possibly defunding the county’s library system after a federal judge ordered it to return more than a dozen banned ...

The RPL West Branch is a popular collection library, which means that it houses many of the library’s newest and most exciting titles. Customers can browse the new shelves with the assistance of ...

A Wellington Library is trialling a new way of cataloguing its mātauranga Māori books, organising them by atua (deity) rather than by the Dewey Decimal system. The trial shelves can be found on ...