nacer@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Abdenacer Moussaoui) (12/08/89)
Would anyone be kind to provide good sources (books, articles, papers...) for how one should approach the problem of designing a numbering or identification scheme say for a small church library system (15,000 books). I am interested if it would discuss the benefits and drawbacks of several techniques regarding flexibility, uniqueness, readability, compactness, popularity of these serialization schemes. Best regards. Abdenacer Moussaoui. PS. I would like to avoid any (too much) theory stuff :-) thanks.
timk@xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn) (12/10/89)
nacer@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Abdenacer Moussaoui) writes: >Would anyone be kind to provide good sources (books, articles, >papers...) for how one should approach the problem of designing a >numbering or identification scheme say for a small church library >system (15,000 books). I am interested if it would discuss the >benefits and drawbacks of several techniques regarding flexibility, >uniqueness, readability, compactness, popularity of these >serialization schemes. I would suggest visiting the local library and seeing how they track their stacks. Either the Dewey Decimal system or the Library or Congress numbering scheme should serve your purposes. The Lib. of Cong. system numbers generally show up on most books that one encounters, so it may be a favorable way to number/track your books, so you may want to look at that first. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Timothy D. Kuehn timk@xenitec.on.ca | |TDK Consulting Services !watmath!xenitec!timk | |871 Victoria St. North, Suite 217A | |Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2B 3S4 (519)-741-3623 | |DOS/Xenix - SW/HW. uC, uP, DBMS. Quality SW Guaranteed | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+