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  2. Minnie Earl Sears - Wikipedia

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    The Sears model is not meant to serve as a standardized bridge for union catalogs, but rather as a model "for the creation of headings as needed." Like the Library of Congress Subject Headings, Sears' system is a subject list arranged in alphabetical order, making use of overarching subject categories and hierarchical subject subdivisions.

  3. Sears Modern Homes - Wikipedia

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    The bulk order is the largest known order for Sears Modern Homes and led to Sears, Roebuck naming their "Carlin" model after the city. Not all Sears houses became private residences. At Greenlawn Cemetery , near the Hampton Roads waterfront in the Newport News, Virginia , area, the cemetery office building is a 1936 Sears Modern Home.

  4. University of Michigan Library - Wikipedia

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    The Michigan Legislature created the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1838, and that year allocated funding for a library. [7] The next year (three years before classes began), the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan acquired the University Library's first volume, John James Audubon's Birds of America, purchased at a cost of $970. [8]

  5. University of Manitoba Libraries - Wikipedia

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    By 1946, the college formally established its own Library Guild, the principle mandate of which was to raise funds for more acquisitions and to increase the number of library patrons. [6] In the early 1950s, these libraries were collectively staffed by 22 people and held approximately 150,000 volumes and acquired on average 6,000 volumes per year.

  6. Library of Congress Classification - Wikipedia

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    The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress in the United States, which can be used for shelving books in a library. LCC is mainly used by large research and academic libraries , while most public libraries and small academic libraries use the Dewey Decimal ...

  7. MARC standards - Wikipedia

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    MARC (machine-readable cataloging) is a standard set of digital formats for the machine-readable description of items catalogued by libraries, such as books, DVDs, and digital resources. Computerized library catalogs and library management software need to structure their catalog records as per an industry-wide standard, which is MARC, so that ...

  8. Library of Congress Control Number - Wikipedia

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    In its most elementary form, the number includes a year and a serial number. The year has two digits for 1898 to 2000, and four digits beginning in 2001. The three ambiguous years (1898, 1899, and 1900) are distinguished by the size of the serial number. There are also some peculiarities in numbers beginning with a "7" because of an experiment ...

  9. Wikipedia:ISBN - Wikipedia

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    In addition to identifying (a particular edition of) a book, ISBNs allow one to search for the book, both at libraries and bookstores. You can enter an ISBN on this Wikipedia ISBN search page. Spaces and hyphens in the ISBN do not matter. ISBN links, or the ISBN search, take users to a special book source page, Wikipedia:Book sources.