Raamatu ajalugu - kokkuvõte
Books on library shelves with bookends, and call numbers
visible on the spines
One of the earliest and most widely known systems of
cataloguing books is the Dewey Decimal System. This system
has fallen out of use in some places, mainly because of a
Eurocentric bias and other difficulties applying the system to
modern libraries. However, it is still used by most public
libraries in America. The Library of Congress Classification system is more popular in university
libraries.
Information about books and authors can be stored in databases like online general-interest book
databases.
Metadata about a book may include its ISBN or other classification number (see above), the names