Classification Systems Used in Latin American Libraries
Classification Systems Used in Latin American Libraries is a scholarly work by Filiberto Felipe Martínez Arellano, published in 2000 in ''Cataloging & Classification Quarterly''. The main subjects of the publication include Library of Congress Classification, library classification scheme, Comparison and contrast of classification schemes in linguistics and metadata, history of books, cataloging, Latin Americans, data science, Psidium guajava, computer science, knowledge management, information retrieval, Dewey Decimal Classification, library science, and Library of Congress. The paper shows the results of an e-mail survey carried out among Latin American libraries to learn what were the classifications systems used in them, as well as some of the reasons that motivated them to select those classification system.