The UDC in North American compulsory library education

Abstract

The gathered evidence concerning the place of the UDC scheme in American library schools is insufficient or lacking for the earlier periods of curricular history, but 30 years ago one investigator suggested that UDC was a significant ingredient of the typical cataloguing and classification course although not necessarily taught by every school. It is possible today to examine the position of the scheme over the past 20 years because of the detailed findings of three surveys and it will be shown that UDC has held a place in the theoretical teaching of half the schools but that very few courses have provided for practice work on the schedules.

Citation

Thomas, A.R. (1977), "The UDC in North American compulsory library education", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 29 No. 4, pp. 168-171. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb050590