Abstract
Colon Classification and Nuovo Soggettario: The Case of the Library of the Natural History Museum of Udine, Italy
Highlights
Colon Classification (CC) has a very limited circulation both in India and in the rest of the world, despite being the very first analytical-synthetic classification and being the result of a revolutionary approach to bibliographic classification
Other fundamental components of analytical-synthetic classifications can be recognized within the Nuovo Soggettario (Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze 2006)—the new general Italian thesaurus developed by Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, spreading all over Italy – derived first from the studies of the Classification Research Group (CRG) and from the works of GRIS – Gruppo di ricerca sull'indicizzazione per soggetto dell’Associazione Italiana Biblioteche (AIB Subject indexing Research Group)
The use of the Colon Classification, 6th edition, during these five years demonstrated that a faceted classification offers great advantages in organizing documents in a modern library, even if CC is still in need of updating and revision
Summary
Carlo Bianchini is a Researcher in LIS at the Facoltà di Musicologia of the University of Pavia. He was Assistant Librarian at the Accademia dei Concordi, Rovigo (1991-1998), Head Librarian of the Natural History Museum (2000-2010), Udine. He is a member of the editorial board of JLis.it. He received his M.L.S. and Ph.D. in LIS from the University of Udine. His main research interests deal with knowledge organization, cataloguing theory, and classification (mainly CC and Ranganathan’s works).
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