The Dewey Decimal Classification in the twenty-first century

The Future of Classification

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 81-92

  Mitchell, Joan S ^a,b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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