Development of a universal law classification: A retrospective on library of congress class k

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly

Volumn 35, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 355-436

  Goldberg, Jolande E ^a  

^a LIBRARY OF CONGRESS   (United States)

Author keywords

Anglo american law; Civil law; Common law; European law; German law; Jurisdictionality; Law classification; Law of american indians; Law of the united states; Law of the world; Library of congress class k; Regional law; Regionalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013723905     PISSN: 01639374     EISSN: 15444554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J104v35n03_05     Document Type: Article

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3. Jefferson’s Legacy, 19. The copyright law of 1870 contributed significantly to the collections of Americana. Around 1897, over 40 percent of the 840,000 volumes and about 90 percent of the music, graphic art, and map collections had come into the Library as copyright deposits.
4. Charles Martel, who was hired in December 1987 as assistant to the superintendent, J. C. M. Hanson, of the Catalogue Department, work begins for the expected reclassification. For Congress and Nation (supra note 4), 59-62.
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10. A. Arthur Schiller, “The Reclassification and Supplemental Cataloging of Books in the Columbia University Law Library: A Survey” (New York: Columbia University Law Library, NY, NY, 1938, mimeographed). A revised edition was published later: Foreign Law Classification in the Columbia University Law Library (Dobbs Ferry: Oceana Publications, 1964).
11. Werner B. Ellinger to the Chief, Subject Cataloging Division (hereinafter SCD), Richard S. Angell (24 June 1958). (On file with CPSO).
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17. Advisory Committee on the Development of Class K. “Meeting minutes” (16 March 1956). (On file with CPSO).
18. Ervin H. Pollack (13 October 1960) and Miles O. Price (11 October 1960) to the Chief Assistant Librarian. (On file with CPSO).
19. Lawrence M. Friedman (14 October 1960) to the Chief Assistant Librarian. (On file with CPSO).
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24. Miles O. Price and Werner B. Ellinger to the Chief SCD, Richard S. Angell, with regard to Carleton W. Kenyon’s letters and statements on particular points, especially on the position of constitutional law in the schedule, and arrangement of civil law subjects with regard to Persons, etc. (21 February1962, 12 December 1962, 12 February 1963, 5 June 1963). Minutes of meeting on Development of Class K (7 June 1963), chaired by Rutherford Rogers, attended by the consultants Miles O. Price and Carleton W. Kenyon (before his departure). (On file with CPSO).
25. Werner B. Ellinger, “Classification of Law at the Library of Congress 1949- 1968,” Law Library Journal 61 (1968): 226, 229 (hereinafter “Classification of Law”).
26. E. Ann Rae was at the National Library of Canada during the development of the KE schedule and is currently Chief Librarian, University of Toronto.
27. Nancy Carol Carter, “American Indians and Law Libraries: Acknowledging the Third Sovereign,” Law Library Journal 61(2002): 24.
28. Library of Congress. “Classification. Class E-F America” (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1913; typescript). See Appendix 8 for samples of classification for Indians in Class E.
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30. Theodor Maunz, Deutsches Staatsrecht (München: C. H. Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1951), 10-12 (hereinafter Staatsrecht).
31. These were the new codifications in East Germany: 1961, Labor law; 1965, Family law; 1965, Education law; 1965, Contract system; 1968, Criminal law and procedure; and 1975, Civil law and procedure.
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33. Richard Schröder and Eberhard Frh.v. Künssberg, Lehrbuch der deutschen Rechtsgeschichte, 7. ed. (Berlin und Leipzig: Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1932), 1010- 1015.
34. Johannes Klinkert, Ellenor Oehler, and Günther Rohde, Eigentumsrecht, Nutzung von Grundstücken und Gebäuden zum Wohnen und zur Erholung (Berlin: Staatsverlag der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, 1979), 13.
35. Mary K. D. Pietris, Chief SCD (19 August, 1 October, and 14 October 1980), on implementation of KK-KKC, layout of the European law classification, and statements on the restructuring of the Class K Outline. (On file with CPSO). Report of Diane Hillmann on the meeting of Heads of Cataloging Departments in Large Law Libraries Discussion Group during AALL 1981 Convention, Technical Services Law Librarian 17, no.1 (1971): 14. Announcement in the LC Information Bulletin 39, no.5 (1980): 478.
36. Jolande E. Goldberg to the Chief SCD, Mary K. D. Pietris (9 December 1981)
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39. Margaret Leary, ABA representative. Minutes for the session of 14 November 1989 (15 November 1989). (On file with CPSO).
40. Jolande E. Goldberg, Library of Congress, Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Classification: Subclass KL-KWX, Law of Asia and Eurasia, Africa, Pacific Region and Antarctica (1993), “Introduction,” 8.
41. Jolande E. Goldberg, “Antarctica: Economic War Zone or World Patrimony? Festschrift Dr. Walter Witzenmann,” in Konstanten für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Konstanz: Labhard Verlag, 1993), 94-95.
42. Library of Congress, Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Classification: Subclass KZA: Law of the Sea, and Subclass KZD: Space Law. Law of Outer Space (1993).
43. Thomas H. Reynolds, Report on the meeting of the Advisory Committee on 7 February 1993 (18 February 1993). The understanding was reached that the “… funds will be spent to convert Class K to an automated version with a caveat that there will be a completion of KZ and KB and revised JX…” (On file with CPSO).
44. Announcement of the LC Cataloging Distribution Service: “Classification Web Service to begin June 1, 2002” See http://www.loc.gov/cds/classweb.html.