Re-classification of Library Materials By shelving English and Chinese materials of the same subjects together, students and faculty will be able to locate books on their topic in one place. This multi-year project to reclassify the entire collection of 500,000 plus items to the Library of Congress Classification Scheme is in its final phase. Reference books, Periodicals, Large Books, Reserve books, and AV material are now shelved together regardless of language. Books from the Chinese General Collection on the Third floor, currently classified in the Lai Classification system for Chinese, are currently being interfiled with English-language books on the First floor and English-language books from the First floor General Collection are being interfiled with reclassified Chinese books on the Third. We regret any inconvenience this may cause as books from both collections are being shifted daily between the First and Third floors and will make every attempt to keep you informed, the shelves properly labeled, and the catalogue updated.   Current Locations of Circulating Chinese and English-language book in the LC Classification LC Classification Location/Language A to DS779.25 (General books, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, General history, History of Europe, Asia) 1st Floor South: Chinese and English interfiled DS 779.26 to G (History of Asia continued, History of Africa, Oceania, History of the Western Hemisphere, American history, Geography, Anthropology, Recreation) 1st Floor North: Chinese and English interfiled H to HX (Social Sciences, Statistics, Economics, Economic history & conditions, Transportation & communication, Commerce, Finance, Public finance, Sociology, Social history, Social problems, Social reform, The family, Marriage, Woman, Societies, Communities, Classes, Races, Social pathology, Social and public welfare, Criminology, Socialism, Communism, Anarchism) 1st Floor North: Chinese and English interfiled J to N (Political science, Law, Education, Music, Fine Arts) 1st Floor North: Chinese and English interfiled P to PE (General Philology and linguistics, Classical languages and Literatures, Modern European languages, Russian Literature, Oriental philology and literature, Indo-Iranian philology and literature) 1st Floor Reading Room: English only PF to PL (West Germanic languages, Slavic, Baltic, Albanian languages and literature, Finno-Ugrian, Basque languages and literatures, Oriental languages and literatures, Indo-Iranian, Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania) 3rd Floor North: English only PM to PZ (Hyperborean, Indian, and Artificial languages, General literature, Romance literatures, English and American literature, Germanic literatures, Juvenile belles lettres) 3rd Floor North: Interfiling in progress Q to Z (Science, Medicine, Agriculture, Technology, Military science, Naval science, Bibliography, Library science) 3rd Floor North: Chinese and English interfiled 　　 Background & Need for Re-classification Until recently the Library employed the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) for classifying its English materials, and Lai's Classification for its Chinese materials. Each collection was maintained in separate locations. Lingnan University Library began converting its entire collection to the LC Classification Scheme as it offers better subject access to both English and Chinese books and is the preferred classification system for many academic libraries, including most of those in Hong Kong.   Reclassification Timeframe Aug 2006 – The re-classification and re-labeling of the Large Book and Reference Collections were successfully completed. Both Chinese and English books in these collections were inter-filed together. Jul 2007 – The entire Serials Collection, including titles in compact storage was re-classified and re-labeled. Both Chinese and English periodicals were shelved together. Aug 2007 – A ceremony was held on 17 August to celebrate the successful completion of Phase 1 of the LC Re-classification Project. Dec 2007 – The re-classification and re-labeling of the English Book Collection was completed. May 2008 – Work on the AV Collection was completed. Both Chinese and English AV materials were shelved together according to the format of each material. Jan 2009 – Completed the re-labeling and inter-shelving of the Reserve Collection. Feb – Dec 2009 – Complete re-labeling and inter-filing Classes A-G, Q, R-Z and J-N of the General Collection. Jan – Dec 2010 – Complete re-labeling and inter-filing of Classes H through Class P, completing the merging into a single collection.