Classifying Religion A Conversational Survey of the Three Main Classification Systems

Abstract

Member libraries of the Australian and New Zealand Theological Library Association each use one of the three established classification systems for arrangement of their physical collections. At this year’s Virtual Conference in September, a Pre-Conference Cataloguing Workshop was conducted on the Association’s e-list. The following is a distillation of ideas and experiences expressed in the Workshop. Helen Greenwood presented the summary of the Library of Congress Classification.