Editing Library classification (section)

==Methods or systems==

Classification types denote the classification or categorization according to the form or characteristics or qualities of a classification scheme or schemes. Method and system has similar meaning. Method or methods or system means the classification schemes like Dewey Decimal Classification or Universal Decimal Classification. The types of classification is for identifying and understanding or education or research purposes while classification method means those classification schemes like DDC, UDC.
 
===English language universal classification systems===
[[File:HK 高等法院圖書館 High Court Library book category system Dec-2010.jpg|thumb|200px|The [[Moys Classification Scheme]] as used by the law library of the [[High Court (Hong Kong)|Hong Kong High Court]]]]
The most common systems in [[English language|English]]-speaking countries are:
* [[Dewey Decimal Classification]] (DDC)
* [[Library of Congress Classification]] (LCC)
* [[Universal Decimal Classification]] (UDC)

Other systems include:
* [[BISAC Subject Headings|Book Industry Standards and Communications]] (BISAC), originally developed for use by U.S. booksellers, has become increasingly popular in libraries.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Martínez-Ávila |first=Daniel |date=2016 |title=BISAC: Book Industry Standards and Communications |url=https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/index.php?doi=10.5771/0943-7444-2016-8-655 |journal=Knowledge Organization |volume=43 |issue=8 |pages=655–662 |doi=10.5771/0943-7444-2016-8-655 |issn=0943-7444|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* [[Bliss bibliographic classification]] used in some British libraries
* [[Colon classification]] (CC)
* [[Garside classification]] used in most libraries of [[University College London]]<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/subject-support/garside-classification-scheme | title=Garside classification scheme &#124; Library Services - UCL – University College London| date=8 August 2018}}</ref>
* Gladstone Library Classification, devised by [[William Ewart Gladstone|W.E. Gladstone]] and used exclusively at [[Gladstone's Library]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gladstone Foundation Collection|url=https://www.gladstoneslibrary.org/reading-rooms/the-collections/special-collections/gladstone-foundation-collection|access-date=2022-01-18|website=Gladstone's Library|language=en-GB}}</ref>
* [[Harvard-Yenching Classification]], an English classification system for Chinese language materials

===Non-English universal classification systems===
* German [[:de:Regensburger Verbundklassifikation|Regensburger Verbundklassifikation]] (RVK)
*A system of book classification for Chinese libraries (Liu's Classification) library classification for user
**[[New Classification Scheme for Chinese Libraries]]
* [[Nippon Decimal Classification]] (NDC)
* [[Chinese Library Classification]] (CLC)
* [[Korean Decimal Classification]] (KDC)
* Russian [[:ru:Библиотечно-библиографическая классификация|Library-Bibliographical Classification]] (BBK)
* [[Swedish library classification system]] (SAB)

===Universal classification systems that rely on synthesis (faceted systems)===
* [[Bliss bibliographic classification]]
* [[Colon classification]]
* [[Cutter Expansive Classification]]
* [[Universal Decimal Classification]]

Newer classification systems tend to use the principle of synthesis (combining codes from different lists to represent the different attributes of a work) heavily, which is comparatively lacking in LC or DDC.