What levels of cataloging are used at LC?
The following levels of cataloging are used at the Library of Congress: full-, core-, minimal-, and collection-level cataloging. For information about the Cataloging Directorate’s application of these different cataloging levels for monographs, refer to “Modes of Cataloging Employed in the Cataloging Directorate.” For information about cataloging levels for serials that are used in LC’s Serial Record Division, refer to “CONSER Record Requirements for Full, Core, and Minimal Level Records.” Back to Questions • Is Dewey Decimal Classification used at LC? The Library of Congress does not use the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) to organize any part of its own collections. Rather the Dewey program maintained at the Library serves an outreach function to the Library’s national and international constituencies. The Dewey Decimal Classification is the most widely used library classification in the world, and the Decimal Classification Division’s mission is, on behalf of library users everyw
