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Gill, Kathy
> In 1472, Queen's College Library at Cambridge had 199 books.
>Now, the Library of Congress adds 10K new books every two weeks.
>To deal with this glut, LOC is considering shelving books
>by acquisition date rather than subject. Books would be assigned
>permanent slots based on size, to permit maximum shelving density.
>[Washington Post, 12Mar99. Meg Schimmels <megsc...@fn.net>,
>LM_NET. net-hap.] (That doesn't reduce the need for subject-
>based descriptors and good indexing methods.)
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Kathy
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